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Creole: Portraits of France’s Foreign Relations During the Long Nineteenth Century
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Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby (University of California, Berkeley)

Creole

Portraits of France’s Foreign Relations During the Long Nineteenth Century

Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby (University of California, Berkeley)

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English
Pennsylvania State University Press
13 December 2022
Art & design styles: Romanticism; Art & design styles: Pre-Raphaelite art; Portraits in art; History of the Americas; French Revolution
This 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.

""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 Théodore Chassériau, Guillaume Guillon-Lethière, Alexandre Dumas père, Édouard Manet, Edgar Degas, the models Joseph and Laure, Josephine Bonaparte, Jeanne Duval, and Adah Isaacs Menken.

Based on extensive archival research, Creole is 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.
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Imprint:   Pennsylvania State University Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 254mm,  Width: 229mm,  Spine: 33mm
Weight:   1.837kg
ISBN:   9780271091549
ISBN 10:   0271091541
Pages:   368
Publication Date:  
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby is Richard and Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Professor in the Arts and Humanities at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Enduring Truths: Sojourner’s Shadows and Substance; Colossal: Engineering the Suez Canal, Statue of Liberty, Eiffel Tower, and Panama Canal; and Extremities: Painting Empire in Post-Revolutionary France.

Reviews for Creole: Portraits of France’s Foreign Relations During the Long Nineteenth Century

Creole is revelatory. This book will be important for the field of art history, and it will set a new standard for research and analysis in nineteenth-century French art, where it will be canonical. -Nancy Locke, author of Manet and the Family Romance


  • Nominated for Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Award 2023
  • Nominated for MAAH Stone Book Award 2023

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