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Romanic Review (2000) 91 (4): 417–431.
Published: 01 November 2000
...Ziad Elmarsafy Copyright © 2000 The Trustees of Columbia University 2000 Ziad Elmarsafy "0 HOMINES AD SERVITUTEM PARATOS BA]AZET AND THE SCANDAL OF SLAVE RULEI O f all Racine's plays, Bajazet is, according to the ARTFL database, the one where the word "esclave" occurs most frequently.2 More...
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Romanic Review (2007) 98 (1): 83–101.
Published: 01 January 2007
... sur notre imagination, que j'etais dans une maison de campagne des environs de New-York" (88-89). The contrast between the props 'on stage' and the real backdrop for the setting-a slave-trading port off the coast of Africa (Tristan and her readers are twice reminded that slave trading is the only form...
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Romanic Review (2003) 94 (3-4): 291–307.
Published: 01 May 2003
..., these have been ontological possibilities posited by one or several members of the African Diaspora in the wake of the combined holocausts of the slave trade and the colonization of Africa.3 Conde has systematically dismantled each of these possibilities in turn, refusing the comforting assumption...
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Romanic Review (2012) 103 (3-4): 367–380.
Published: 01 May 2012
... they had held superior status. They used their personal narratives not only to denounce the black insurgents who had destroyed their plantations but also to accuse the French revolutionary politicians who, in the eyes of these authors, had triggered the slave uprising through their utopian fantasies about...
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Romanic Review (2003) 94 (3-4): 391–404.
Published: 01 May 2003
... against the constant undermining of one's autonomy is, according to Conde, to construct and produce. Like the slaves who were their ancestors, slaves who refused to be reduced to animalistic quotas of production by their masters, but who rather produced a new culture from the shattered remains they found...
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Romanic Review (2003) 94 (3-4): 361–376.
Published: 01 May 2003
... in the mornes [hills] as they supposedly did for marooning slaves, nor do all roads down to the plains lead to alienation in the canefields. Though Riviere au Sel may bear witness to the fact that the Caribbean past still structures ethnic and social relations in Guadeloupe, Conde alludes to a potentially...
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (3): 409–424.
Published: 01 May 2010
... more than one hundred and fifty years of Martinican history, from 1788 to 1946, through the retelling of the story of the Longoue and the Beluse families, who are descended from two Africans, one a maroon, the other a plantation slave, both of whom arrived in Martinique on the same ship in 1788...
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Romanic Review (2007) 98 (2-3): 205–223.
Published: 01 May 2007
..., fantasize about an outside reality that ignores them as thoroughly as they misunderstand it. The Averroes "legend" that Borges gives us in his story is one that reflects Borges's own life.27 The Red-Haired Slave Girl A minor yet intriguing detail of the story "Averroes' Search" concerns a red-haired slave...
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Romanic Review (2003) 94 (3-4): 457–464.
Published: 01 May 2003
..., 1863, she suddenly felt her feet nailed to the planks of the old courthouse. 'For the sum of $1,300.00, from the Loebs to the Cahns, Millie, aged seventeen, dark-skinned, being sound in mind and body, sold as a slave for life.' What's in a name, in an age, in a color? The specificity of details draws...
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Romanic Review (2007) 98 (4): 539–541.
Published: 01 November 2007
... domestically' (significantly the term originally means 'home-grown' domestic animals, as opposed to those purchased at the market) remains an ambiguous one, referring to descendants 54° BOOK REVIEWS of colonial settlers as well as to the children of slaves, as both were considered 'native' to the colonies...
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Romanic Review (2012) 103 (3-4): 347–365.
Published: 01 May 2012
... of an alternative unregulated intellectual domain, an idea anathema both to guilds and to the political/ecclesiastical state. Although, during the slaving era, sea pirates were public enemies, they were also, despite their cruelty, admired for their equality, electing their captain, dividing their loot equally...
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Romanic Review (2002) 93 (3): 275–293.
Published: 01 May 2002
... would be nothing but a slave to his passions: "C'est pourquoy Ie Philosophe Chretien est oblige d'implorer l'ayde du Ciel pour vaincre ces rebelles, et avoliant que sa Raison est affoiblie, il faut qu'il cherche du secours hor de luy-meme" (79-80). The second part of De rUsage des passions offers...
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Romanic Review (2007) 98 (1): 51–69.
Published: 01 January 2007
... escape and the subsequent visit between her and Flora revolve in complementary ways around articles of clothing. Dominga arranges her escape by having her black slave procure her an Indian cadaver. She dresses the cadaver in her nun's habit and veil, lays it in her bed and sets the bed on fire to create...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (1): 31–56.
Published: 01 May 2023
... more provocatively, gave voice to the sensual demands of a woman, perhaps even a slave girl. The kharja contrasts with the body of the muwashshah , which usually follows convention as a courtly lament for an inaccessible lover (usually male in the muwashshah ) or panegyric (to a woman or man). See...
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Romanic Review (2009) 100 (4): 545–564.
Published: 01 November 2009
..., de ces nihilistes slaves si prompts a l'illusion, mais plus prompts encore au desenchantement, victimes d'un ideal trop haut et d'une clairevoyance trop aigue" (99). ALI NEMATOLLAHY The affinities that united the symbolists and the Wagnerians are well known. Wyzewa translated the works of Wagner...
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Romanic Review (2007) 98 (1): 103–105.
Published: 01 January 2007
... of social injustice and her defence of victims: slaves in plantations, the lower coloured classes in Peru, and women-subject everywhere to the whims of tyrannical fathers and husbands. This work, which ran to a second edition in 1838, changed her impecunious circumstances and gained her social and literary...
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Romanic Review (2003) 94 (3-4): 429–436.
Published: 01 May 2003
... Revolution some of the "missionaries" fol- CONDE'S TRIALS OF THE SPIRIT 435 lowed the slaves. Imagine how Jacobin ideals might have joined with Christian communion, on the soil of the gods-the lwa. The names of the priests who joined the slave insurrection appeared in the parish records. Although one...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (2): 280–300.
Published: 01 September 2023
... trade with the Americas, allowing cities like Barcelona to flourish. Between the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, enterprising Catalan businessmen like José Xifré y Casas also capitalized on trade with slave-based economies in the United States and Cuba to create their fortunes, later...
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Romanic Review (2017) 108 (1-4): 19–24.
Published: 01 January 2017
... and in a tactical fashion, the kind of change that occurs when, for example, one reads a book that brings about a change in desire. One of his favorite Diogenes stories was when the cynic philoso pher is captured by pirates who try to sell him as a slave. When the pirates ask him what he does well, to determine...
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Romanic Review (2003) 94 (3-4): 405–420.
Published: 01 May 2003
... with the despair and determination of an infanticidal slave-, these narrative components illustrate the dominant mood of Conde's later novels. Conde commented on Tituba for Fran~oise Pfaff, a Tituba who gets herself impregnated by an adolescent before hanging from a rope, and who, "naturally," survives in ghost...
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