Note on Translations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Shaping the Colonial Subject in the Romantic Age
1. The White Native
Insularity, "Indigenism" and Incest: the Paradoxes of Paul et Virginie
2. The Métis
Plotting Colonial Intimacies: the Miscegenated Subjects of the Romantic Novel
3. The Disciplined Savage
Old Losses, New Constructs: Chateaubriand and the Reinvention of the American Indian
4. The Black Aristocrat
Ourika, or, Comment peut-on être noire?
5. The Rebellious Slave
Black Spartacus: Colonial Revolt and Romantic Masculinities
Epilogue: The Legacy of Romantic Colonialism
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Pratima Prasad is Assistant Professor of French, University of Massachusetts-Boston.
