Search Results for Code Noir

... of the infamous Code Noir and her equally blistering account of a well-known instance of settler violence, that of the planter Nicolas Lejeune, whose prosecution for torture in 1788 has recently been examined from a decidedly more sanguine perspective by legal historian Malick Ghachem. Contrasting Dayan...

... a panel of four; along with me were Pélagie Gbaguidi, Françoise Vergès, and Tavia Nyong’o (Colin Dayan was to have been there with us but, sadly, couldn’t make it). This specific occasion of the “parliament” was devoted to a “trial” of the Code Noir , a copy of an original edition of which (a strangely...

... to the Code Noir to put an end to the practice: France, especially its capital, has become a public market where men have been sold by auction to the highest bidder; there is hardly a bourgeois or worker who has not had his Negro slave. We have been informed of many purchases of this kind, and we have had...

... With this penal logic the rules of law and the exercise of spirit became reciprocal. Legally, how much of a body could be dismembered? In the Jamaican Black Code, as in the French Code Noir, a gradual removal of body parts was allowed: one ear for the first escape, another ear for the second, or sometimes...

... on literature, from work on taste to work on sovereignty. 11 Buck-Morss’s argument is influenced here significantly by the very provocative work of Louis Sala-Molins, in particular his outraged reading of Louis XIV’s 1685 decree, the Code noir, against the assumptions of the philosophes (Condorcet...

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... revolutionary friends have explained to her about the Code Noir. 25 With each overheard conversation among Whites, Minette reaffirms her decolonial commitment. Vieux-Chauvet uses the eavesdropping scenes as a pressure cooker, accelerating Minette’s process of revolutionary becoming. The second relevant...

... for understanding the “humanitarianism” of the “Amis des noirs” and of Montesquieu and Rousseau. . . . The Black Code is a document of limits. . . . . . . What is remarkable about this text is its language. Existing only as precepts and never in practice, the Black Code can be read as a philosophy...

... and affiliation … . Subordinated and expelled from society, they take on new shapes: humans, things, dogs, and spirits.” 41 “How much can you take from a person?” 42 “One has only to read the 1685 Code noir of Louis XIV, the collection of edicts concerning ‘the Discipline and Commerce of Negro...

.... Dans la cale. Sur le pont. . . . Empilés, comme des marchandises avariées dans le bateau » (53). La comparaison aux marchandises rappelle déjà le « Code noir » et le commerce triangulaire. L’adjectif avariées quant à lui signale la déshumanisation du corps devenu bétail. En outre, l’avarie renvoie...

... is especially frenetic in the first chapter. After she witnesses her friend Paladin being burned at the stake (Lisette and other members of the community are called to be witnesses because of the laws of the Code Noir, which regulates life on the plantation for enslaved people), Lisette runs through...

...., 59. 16 See ibid., 162. 17 “Le tollé grandissant qui poursuit le cheminement du Code de la famille”; “Ce même Code, si décrié par les hommes, dans certains de ses articles, défavorise encore la femme. C’est de la reconversion des mentalités que naîtront les changements décisifs”; Mariama...

..., surfacing as near-delirium during his well-known, narrated encounter with Césaire in “Un grand poète noir.” The section will later serve as a preface for the 1947 edition of the Cahier , helping, as Richard Watts has noted, to introduce the Martinican to a wider French audience, and thus identify him...

... or are perceived to defy codes of decorum in the region. 1 The book makes its appearance in the dizzying concantenation of celebrity disclosures, legal challenges, violent attacks, wedding celebrations. and public demonstrations that frame our current public experience and consumption of discourses of sexuality...

... away on a ship bound for France. The bureaucratic codes of mémoire clarify a number of aspects of Louverture’s text. First, we recognize the constraints that Louverture was under in terms of the type of text he could produce. A prisoner, he was no longer imbued with the authority to produce...

... oppression in France. See, for example, Louis Sala-Molins, Le “code noir,” ou le calvaire de Canaan (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1987); Michèle Duchet, Anthropologie et histoire au siècle des lumières (Paris: François Maspéro, 1971); and Buck-Morss, “Hegel and Haiti.” 34 See Sheller...

... to be her ancient relative's work contract with a plantation owner but which, upon inspection and in an amusing moment of intertextuality, turns out to be a page from France's code noir she had simply torn out of a history book. Confiant provides several other possible explanations for what might really...

... of the quimboiseur was born in resistance to the declaration in Article 3 of le Code Noir that the only valid religion was Catholicism. The quimboiseur thus represents a figure outside the colonial system in a similar manner to the Maroon, with these roles frequently coinciding in the same person, as they do...

..., regrouping (of ideas, things, people, spirits. For example, fè yon rasanblaj, do a gathering, a ceremony, a protest), rasanblaj’s very linguistic formation subverted and resisted colonial oppression (M.Condé). << Consider that Article 16 of the 1685 French Code Noir forbade slaves of different masters...

... crosshatched confi guration of connections, circuits of engagement, misreadings, creative reworking of expressive codes, relays of diff erence, and recurring opacities that complicate racial and cultural representation. Th is scrupulous attention to diasporic diff erence aligns Edwards’s work...