[gblockquote source=’”Anthem of the Movement for the Liberation of Women” (Hymne du Mouvement de Libération des Femmes)1‘]Nous, qui sommes sans […]
Colonial Colette: From Orientalism and Egyptian Pantomime to Polaire’s Jamaican “Slave”
I first read excerpts of Colette’s Sido in my IB French class in 2007, so when the recent biopic starring […]
Feeling Grief: On Emotions in the Archive of Enslavement
In September, when an archivist at Fisk University asked me to help identify a ten-page manuscript from 1776 Saint-Domingue, my […]
The Persistence of Félicité Kina: Kinship, Gender, and Everyday Resistance
In January of 1803, the sixteen-year-old Félicité-Adelaïde Kina (née Quimard) traveled from Paris to Pontarlier to protest the imprisonment of […]
Locating Enslaved Black Wet Nurses in the Literature of French Slavery
[gpullquote class=”aligncenter”]“Enslaved women and their children enter the archives in little more than fragments.”1[/gpullquote] In George Sand’s 1832 idealist novel, […]