{"id":3103,"date":"2009-11-13T04:47:10","date_gmt":"2009-11-13T04:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=3103"},"modified":"2013-02-06T22:25:35","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T22:25:35","slug":"creole-crossings-domestic-fiction-and-the-reform-of-colonial-slavery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=3103","title":{"rendered":"Creole Crossings: Domestic Fiction and the Reform of Colonial Slavery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Creole Crossings: Domestic Fiction and the Reform of Colonial Slavery<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Cornell University Press<\/a>
\n2005
\n254 pages, 6 x 9
\nISBN: 978-0-8014-4384-8\u00a0<\/p>\n

Carolyn Vellenga Berman<\/a>
\n<\/strong>Department of Humanities
\nThe New School, New York<\/em><\/p>\n

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The character of the Creole woman\u2014the descendant of settlers or slaves brought up on the colonial frontier\u2014is a familiar one in nineteenth-century French, British, and American literature. In Creole Crossings<\/em>, Carolyn Vellenga Berman examines the use of this recurring figure in such canonical novels as Jane Eyre<\/em>, Uncle Tom\u2019s Cabin<\/em>, and Indiana<\/em>, as well as in the antislavery discourse of the period. \u201cCreole\u201d in its etymological sense means \u201cbrought up domestically,\u201d and Berman shows how the campaign to reform slavery in the colonies converged with literary depictions of family life.<\/p>\n

Illuminating a literary genealogy that crosses political, familial, and linguistic lines, Creole Crossings<\/em> reveals how racial, sexual, and moral boundaries continually shifted as the century\u2019s writers reflected on the realities of slavery, empire, and the home front. Berman offers compelling readings of the \u201cdomestic fiction\u201d of Honor\u00e9 de Balzac<\/a>, Charlotte Bront\u00eb<\/a>, Maria Edgeworth<\/a>, Harriet Jacobs<\/a>, George Sand<\/a>, Harriet Beecher Stowe<\/a>, and others, alongside travel narratives, parliamentary reports, medical texts, journalism, and encyclopedias. Focusing on a neglected social classification in both fiction and nonfiction, Creole Crossings<\/em> establishes the crucial importance of the Creole character as a marker of sexual norms and national belonging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Creole Crossings: Domestic Fiction and the Reform of Colonial Slavery Cornell University Press 2005 254 pages, 6 x 9 ISBN: 978-0-8014-4384-8\u00a0 Carolyn Vellenga Berman Department of Humanities The New School, New York The character of the Creole woman\u2014the descendant of settlers or slaves brought up on the colonial frontier\u2014is a familiar one in nineteenth-century French, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,459,1196,8,17,6940,20],"tags":[1137,1149,1131,201,1151,481,930,1148,1150],"class_list":["post-3103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-history","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-slavery","category-usa","tag-carolyn-vellenga-berman","tag-charlotte-bronte","tag-cornell-university-press","tag-creoles","tag-george-sand","tag-harriet-beecher-stowe","tag-harriet-jacobs","tag-honore-de-balzac","tag-maria-edgeworth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3103","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=3103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}