Yale French Studies, Number 107

Deborah JensonEditor's PrefaceNick NesbittThe Idea of 1804Christopher L. MillerForget Haiti: Baron Roger and The New AfricaChris Bongie"Monotonies of History": Baron Vastey and the Mulatto Legend of Derek Walcott's Haitian TrilogyDoris KadishHaiti and Abolitionism in 1825: The Example of Sophie DoinDavid F. Bell Technologies of Speed, Technologies of CrimeUri EisenzweigViolence Untold: The Birth of a Modern FascinationDominique KalifaCriminal Investigators at the Fin-de-siecleAndrea GouletCuriosity Killer's Instinct: Bibliophilia and the Myth of the Rational DetectiveNanette FornabaiCriminal Factors: Fantomas, Anthropometrics, and the Numerical Fictions of Modern Criminal IdentityTom GunningLynx-Eyed Detectives and Shadow Bandits: Visuality and Eclipse in French DetectiveStories and Films before WWIDaniel DesormeauxThe First of the (Black) Memorialists: Toussaint LouvertureAlbert ValdmanHaitian Creole at the Dawn of IndependenceDeborah JensonFrom the Kidnapping(s) of the Louvertures to the Alleged Kidnapping of Aristide: Legacies of Slavery in the Post/Colonial World