Creole Crossings: Domestic Fiction and the Reform of Colonial Slavery
ISBN: 9781501726835
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Cornell University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Creoles in literature; Slavery in literature; Antislavery movements in literature; Domestic fiction -- History and criticism;

The character of the Creole woman--the descendant of settlers or slaves brought up on the colonial frontier--is a familiar one in nineteenth-century French, British, and American literature. In Creole Crossings , Carolyn Vellenga Berman examines the use...


Carolyn Vellenga Berman teaches in the Department of Humanities at The New School, a university in New York City.

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