{"product_id":"creole-darcy-grimaldo-grigsby-9780271091549","title":"Creole: Portraits of France's Foreign Relations During the Long Nineteenth Century","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book addresses the unique and profound indeterminacy of \"Creole,\" a label applied to white, black, and mixed-race persons born in French colonies during the nineteenth century. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Creole\" implies that the geography of one's birth determines identity in ways that supersede race, language, nation, and social status. Paradoxically, the very capaciousness of the term engendered a perpetual search for visual signs of racial difference as well as a pretense to blindness about the intermingling of races in Creole society. Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby reconstructs the search for visual signs of racial difference among people whose genealogies were often repressed. She explores French representations of Creole subjects and representations by Creole artists in France, the Caribbean, and the Americas. To do justice to the complexity of Creole identity, Grigsby interrogates the myriad ways in which people defined themselves in relation to others. With close attention to the differences between Afro-Creole and Euro-Creole cultures and persons, Grigsby examines figures such as Th駮dore Chass駻iau, Guillaume Guillon-Lethi鑽e, Alexandre Dumas p鑽e, ﾉdouard Manet, Edgar Degas, the models Joseph and Laure, Josephine Bonaparte, Jeanne Duval, and Adah Isaacs Menken.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBased on extensive archival research, \u003ci\u003eCreole \u003c\/i\u003eis an original and important examination of colonial identity. This essential study will be welcomed by specialists in nineteenth-century art history, French cultural history, the history of race, and transatlantic history more generally.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0271091541\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780271091549\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penn State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/13\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 4.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.28h x 9.37w x 1.33d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2024","brand":"Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44072184873215,"sku":"9780271091549","price":99.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_fe88cea4-cb18-4d45-8971-2fef8050dfa1.jpg?v=1685440442","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/creole-darcy-grimaldo-grigsby-9780271091549","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}