PDF⋙ Trading Places: Colonization and Slavery in Eighteenth-Century French Culture by Madeleine Dobie
Trading Places: Colonization and Slavery in Eighteenth-Century French Culture by Madeleine Dobie Trading Places: Colonization and Slavery in Eighteenth-Century French Culture by Madeleine Dobie PDF, ePub eBook D0wnl0ad In Trading Places, Madeleine Dobie explores the place of the colonial world in the culture of the French Enlightenment. She shows that until a turning point in the late 1760s questions of colonization and slavery occupied a very marginal position in literature, philosophy, and material and visual culture. In an exploration of the causes and modalities of this silence, Dobie traces the displacement of colonial questions onto two more familiarand less ethically challengingaspects of Enlightenment thought: exoticization of the Orient and fascination with indigenous Amerindian cultures. Expanding the critical analysis of the cultural imprint of colonization to encompass commodities as well as texts, Dobie considers how tropical raw materials were integrated into French mater...