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Encyclopédie noire : the making of Moreau de Saint-Méry's intellectual world /

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Main Author: Johnson, Sara E. (Sara Elizabeth) (Author)
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
French
Haitian French Creole
Kongo
Language Notes:Text in English with extensive quotations in French, with translation into English. Also with quotations in Kreyòl, Kikongo, Spanish, Italian, and other languages, with translations into English.
Published: Williamsburg, Virginia : Chapel Hill : Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture ; University of North Carolina Press, [2023]
Subjects:
Moreau de Saint-Méry, M. L. E. > (Médéric Louis Elie), > 1750-1819.
Moreau de Saint-Méry, M. L. E. > (Médéric Louis Elie), > 1750-1819 > Criticism and interpretation > History.
Moreau de Saint-Méry, M. L. E. > (Médéric Louis Elie), > 1750-1819 > Critique et interprétation > Histoire.
Moreau de Saint-Méry, M. L. E. > (Médéric Louis Elie), > 1750-1819
Black people > Haiti > History.
Enslaved persons > Haiti > History.
Language and culture > Caribbean Area.
Enlightenment > Caribbean Area.
Personnes noires > Haïti > Histoire.
Esclaves > Haïti > Histoire.
Langage et culture > Caraïbes (Région)
Siècle des Lumières > Caraïbes (Région)
HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775)
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies.
Black people
Enlightenment
Language and culture
Enslaved persons
Caribbean Area
Haiti
Biography.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Notes toward a communal biography of Moreau de Saint-Méry
  • Encyclopédie noire : Part I
  • Unflattering portraits : a visual critique
  • Print culture and the empires of slavery
  • Encyclopédie noire : Part II
  • Unnatural history : translation, coercion, and the limits of colonialist knowledge
  • "You are a poisoner" : planter linguistics in Baudry des Lozière's "Dictionnaire ou vocabulaire Congo"
  • [Here the capital letters "B. DRY LOZ" are printed upside down, reading from right to left] : illustrative storytelling
  • Encyclopédie noire : Part III.