{"id":26317,"date":"2012-11-04T02:46:32","date_gmt":"2012-11-04T02:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=26317"},"modified":"2013-08-29T02:25:04","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T02:25:04","slug":"figuring-abjection-the-slave-mother-in-the-early-creole-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=26317","title":{"rendered":"Figuring Abjection: The Slave Mother in the Early Creole Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/doi: 10.1093\/fs\/kns232\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Figuring Abjection: The Slave Mother in the Early Creole Novel<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fs.oxfordjournals.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">French Studies<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/fs.oxfordjournals.org\/content\/67\/1.toc\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 67, Issue 1<\/a>, January 2013<br \/>\npages 61-75<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/doi: 10.1093\/fs\/kns232\" target=\"_blank\">10.1093\/fs\/kns232<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.qub.ac.uk\/schools\/SchoolofModernLanguages\/Staff\/DrMaeveMcCusker\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Maeve McCusker<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nSchool of Modern Languages<br \/>\n<em>Queen&#8217;s University Belfast<\/em><\/p>\n<p>While twentieth-century Caribbean literature in French has generated a substantial body of criticism, earlier writings have largely been neglected. This article begins by contextualizing the Creole novel of the 1830s in cultural and historical terms, then proceeds to analyse two novels published by Martinican authors in 1835:\u00a0<em>Outre-mer<\/em> by Louis de Maynard de Queilhe and\u00a0<em>Les Cr\u00e9oles<\/em> by Jules Levilloux. The few studies that exist of these texts tend to contrast their portrayal of the (male) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=451\" target=\"_blank\">mulatto<\/a>; Levilloux has generally been considered the more progressive writer in this regard. However, both writers are in striking harmony in their depiction of the black mother, a figure (in both senses, as her physiognomy is central in her portrayal) who has until now been overlooked. In\u00a0<em>Outre-mer<\/em>, as in\u00a0<em>Les Cr\u00e9oles<\/em>, the elderly black mother is an abject and wretched creature, a source of phobic disgust. She has necessarily to be shown to be repulsive, filthy, and morally hideous in old age in order to counteract the fascination she provokes, and to embody a phantasized repellent to the desires of the white male.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/fs.oxfordjournals.org\/content\/early\/2012\/11\/01\/fs.kns232.full.pdf+html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Figuring Abjection: The Slave Mother in the Early Creole Novel French Studies Volume 67, Issue 1, January 2013 pages 61-75 DOI: 10.1093\/fs\/kns232 Maeve McCusker School of Modern Languages Queen&#8217;s University Belfast While twentieth-century Caribbean literature in French has generated a substantial body of criticism, earlier writings have largely been neglected. This article begins by contextualizing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21,1196,8,6940],"tags":[12637,12639,12638,12640],"class_list":["post-26317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-latincarib","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-slavery","tag-french-studies","tag-jules-levilloux","tag-louis-de-maynard-de-queilhe","tag-maeve-mccusker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}