Les femmes dans le marronnage a l'ile Bourbon de 1662 a 1848
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Title
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Les femmes dans le marronnage a l'ile Bourbon de 1662 a 1848
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Identifier
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d_2009_2013:6bf83e0de4fe:10216
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identifier
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10303
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Creator
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Payet, Marie-Ange,
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Contributor
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Edouard Glissant
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Date
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2009
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Language
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French
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Romance literature | Womens studies | colonialism | indian ocean | maroons | reunion island | slavery | women
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Abstract
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This dissertation examines the presence, participation and role of maroon women in the phenomenon of marronnage, (resistance to slavery) in the island of Bourbon (Reunion Island today) from the beginning of the French colonization in 1662 to the abolition of slavery in 1848. This work investigates how enslaved women played an incentive part in the marronnage and the legacy they left.;Once free the Maroons were forced into nomadism, generating a community in perpetual movement in the mountains of Cilaos, Mafate and Salazie. They had to protect themselves from the planters hunting them down. Through the process of reterritorialization the Maroons were able to create a new identity for themselves respecting and remembering their origins and beliefs, inventing their distinct forms of cultural expression such as language, music and dance. However their new territories could not be functional without the presence of women. Some historical and contemporary texts mention the names of the influential maroon women like Heva, Marianne, Raharianne, Simangalove and Sarlave. Part mythical and part real, these women fructified and strengthened the everyday life of maroon villages through agricultural tasks and transmitted the traditions to the next generation leaving a legacy in the underground cultural landscape of today. Looking at the representation of Maroon women in the colonial and contemporary novels of Reunion, the archival documents of the French colony of Reunion, the contemporary toponomy of the mountains, this work attempts to reveal and define the identity of these important women were. This dissertation examines their legacy in the folktales of Mme Desbassyns and Granmer Kalle and in the practices of holistic medicine by contemporary shaman women in Reunion Island. This dissertation is a testimony and a celebration of their existence.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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2009_2013.csv
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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French
