Testut

Through the study of Charles Testut’s Le Vieux Salomon, a nineteenth-century southern Francophone antislavery novel, this book encourages a reassessment of the southern experience and of the canon of southern literature. Arguing for a southern literary identity strongly influenced by French socialist thought and colonial culture, Abel’s book is an invaluable resource for Francophone scholars interested in race and colonial literature.

Sheri Lyn Abel is assistant professor of French at Wheaton College.