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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820655403321

Autore

Grigsby Darcy Grimaldo

Titolo

Creole : Portraits of France's Foreign Relations During the Long Nineteenth Century / / Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby

Pubbl/distr/stampa

University Park, PA : , : The Pennsylvania State University Press, , [2022]

©2022

ISBN

0-271-09269-6

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (546 pages)

Disciplina

704.94208905

Soggetti

Creoles - America

Creoles - America - Social conditions - 19th century

Art, French - 19th century - Themes, motives

Art and society - France - History - 19th century

France Colonies America Social conditions 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

To begin : Josephines -- Haiti's Ancestors -- Creole secrets -- Creole colors -- Cursed mimicry in black and white -- Dumas's excess -- Olympia's maid -- Mexican targets -- Creole Degas.

Sommario/riassunto

"Examines visual representations of and by persons defined as Creole, the term applied to white, Black, and mixed-race persons born in French colonies during the nineteenth century"--