Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction:
Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
Ed Piacentino, High Point University
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Essay Sections:
Introduction | Liberated Narrative Voice | Restricted Space | Clotel's Rebellion| Local Color | Conclusion & Notes | Recommended Resources | "The Mulatto"

Recommended Resources:

Print Materials:
Brown, William Wells. Clotel; or, The President’s Daughter. New York: Penguin, 2003. (Originally published in 1853.)

Chesnutt, Charles W. "The Goophered Grapevine." Charles W. Chesnutt: Selected Writing. Ed. SallyAnn H. Ferguson. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001: 118-28.

Dayan, Joan. Haiti, History and the Gods. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.

Dessens, Nathalie. From Saint-Domingue to New Orleans: Migration and Influences. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2007.

Fiehrer, Thomas Marc. "The African Presence in Colonial Louisiana: An Essay on the Continuity of Caribbean Culture." In Louisiana's Black Heritage, edited by Robert R. MacDonald, John R. Kemp, and Edward F. Haas. New Orleans: Louisiana State Museum, 1979: 3-31.

Geggus, David Patrick. The Impact of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2001.

Handley, George B. "A New World of Oblivion." In Look Away! The U. S. South in New World Studies, edited by Jon Smith and Deborah Cohn. Durham: Duke University Press, 2004: 25-51.

O'Neill, Charles E. Séjour: Parisian Playwright from Louisiana. Lafayette, LA: Center for Louisiana Studies, 1995.

Séjour, Victor. "The Mulatto." Translated by Philip Barnard. In The Norton Anthology of African American Literature, 2nd Edition, edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Nellie Y. McKay. New York: Norton, 2004: 353-65. (Originally published as: "Le Mulâtre." La Revue des Colonies 3 (1837): 376-392.)

Smith, Jon and Deborah Cohn. "Introduction: Uncanny Hybridities." In Look Away! The U.S. South in New World Studies, edited by John Smith and Deborah Cohn. Durham: Duke University Press, 2004.

Spillers, Hortense J. "Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: An American Grammar Book." Diacritics 17.2 (1987): 64-81.

Williams, Linda. Playing the Race Card: Melodramas in Black and White, From Uncle Tom to O. J. Simpson. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001.

Yellin, Jean Fagan. Women & Sisters: The Antislavery Feminists in American Culture. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989.

Links:
Bob Corbett. "The Haitian Revolution of 1791-1803: An Historical Essay in Four Parts." Webster University
http://www.webster.edu/~corbetre/haiti/history/revolution/revolution1.htm

John R. Nemmers, 2004. A Guide to the Slavery and Plantations in Saint Domingue Collection. University of Florida Smathers Libraries
http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/manuscript/guides/stdomingue.htm

Haitian Immigration: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
http://www.inmotionaame.org/print.cfm?migration=5&bhcp=1

Essay Sections:
Introduction | Liberated Narrative Voice | Restricted Space | Clotel's Rebellion| Local Color | Conclusion & Notes | Recommended Resources | "The Mulatto"

Published: 28 August 2007

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