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Finding Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas and the French Atlantic World (Paperback)
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Finding Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas and the French Atlantic World (Paperback)
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During his lifetime, the biracial French writer Alexandre Dumas
(1802-1870)-author of The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte
Cristo and grandson of a Caribbean slave-faced forms of racial
prejudice in France. He constantly strove to find a place where he
could belong, an isolated figure in search for an identity within a
larger collectivity. For him, "Monte Cristo" seemed to symbolize
this quest. Just as "Monte Cristo" proved to be an elusive reality
for Dumas, it proved equally elusive to those struggling to
overcome slavery and its legacies in the French Atlantic world also
searching for their own figurative "Monte Cristo." Exiled to the
margins of French society because of their colonial origins and the
legacies of the slavery, they ultimately attempted to use Dumas to
renegotiate a definition of what it meant to be French within the
public sphere to allow their full inclusion as French citizens.
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century black intellectuals, primarily
from former French colonies in the Caribbean and Africa, used
perceptions of Dumas, created through his
memorialization/commemoration to develop conceptions of national
identity and their relation to French culture. Such efforts were
influenced by earlier African-American struggles, particularly in
the decades immediately after the Civil War, to create a place for
their inclusion in wider American society; their efforts also used
Dumas, whom they reconfigured as an American black hero.
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