Journal article
Désir colonial et conscience historique authentique: La belle Dorothée de Charles Baudelaire
Nineteenth-century French studies, Vol.35(3-4), pp.537-546
03/22/2007
DOI: 10.1353/ncf.2007.0069
Abstract
Contemporary critics of Charles Baudelaire’s 1863 prose poem “La Belle Dorothée” have interpreted the figure of the liberated female slave Dorothée as a slave of imitation of whiteness. Drawing on colonial history, postcolonial theory, as well as recent developments in Baudelairean criticism, this article focuses on the poem’s formal features to argue for a reading of Dorothée as a successful embodiment of emancipation without cultural assimilation. (In French)
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Désir colonial et conscience historique authentique: La belle Dorothée de Charles Baudelaire
- Creators
- Hélène Sicard-Cowan - McGill University
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Nineteenth-century French studies, Vol.35(3-4), pp.537-546
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- DOI
- 10.1353/ncf.2007.0069
- ISSN
- 0146-7891
- eISSN
- 1536-0172
- Language
- French
- Date published
- 03/22/2007
- Academic Unit
- French and Italian
- Record Identifier
- 9984398020302771
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