The black musketeer
Subtitle: reevaluating Alexandre Dumas within the francophone world
By: edited by Eric Martone
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9781443829977
Subjects: French literature; Group identity; Colonies; History and criticism; Criticism and interpretation; Identity (Psychology) in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction:; title: Alexandre Dumas as a francophone writer  -- Eric Martone -- The; title: paternal mystery of Alexandre Dumas  -- Simone Dubrovic; title: "White Negroes, nothing more": the ambiguous role of the "mulatto" in Alexandre Dumas's Georges  -- Molly Krueger Enz; title: Monte Cristo brings the empire home: Alexandre Dumas and the promise of postcolonial philology  -- Indra N. Mukhopadhyay; title: Georges, or the "mixed-blood" settles scores  -- Claudie Bernard; title: From the literary myth to the lieu de mémoire: Alexandre Dumas and French national identity(ies)  -- Roxane Petit-Rasselle; title: "Dent pour dent": injustice, revenge, and storytelling in The Count of Monte Cristo and Balzac and the little Chinese seamstress  -- Barbara T. Cooper -- "A; title: French precursor of Obama": the commemoration of General Alexandre Dumas and French reconciliation with the past -- Eric Martone.