Toussaint L'Ouverture
Lamartine, Alphonse De; de Lamartine, Alphonse
This is a new critical edition of an unjustly forgotten drama by Alphonse de Lamartine, written in the early 1840s but only given its first, and last, performance in Paris in 1850. It draws a compelling image of Toussaint Louverture, the father of Haitian Independence. Lamartine proved something of a visionary by stressing his hero’s search for a coherent racial and national ideology, a theme which has become fundamental in Négritude and post-colonial literatures.
This edition is the first to provide a critical apparatus covering the history of the text, the political and social background against which ... Read more
This volume is in the series Textes littéraires/Exeter French Texts. The text, introduction and essential notes are all in French.
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