America and the Long 19th Century
General Editors: David Kazanjian, Elizabeth McHenry, and Priscilla Wald
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Stella
Émeric Bergeaud
Translated and Edited by Lesley S. Curtis and Christen Mucher
Stella
Émeric Bergeaud
Translated and Edited by Lesley S. Curtis and Christen Mucher
A Novel of the Haitian Revolution
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Bergeaud, Emeric, 1818–1857, author. [Stella. English]
Stella / Émeric Bergeaud ; translated and edited by Lesley S. Curtis and Christen Mucher.
pages cm. — (America and the long 19th century)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4798-6684-7 (cl : acid-free paper)
ISBN 978-1-4798-9240-2 (pb : acid-free paper)
I. Curtis, Lesley S., editor, translator. II. Mucher, Christen, editor, translator. III. Title.
PQ3949.B43S7413 2015
843’.8—dc23 2015009275
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Contents
Editors’ Acknowledgments
Editors’ Introduction
Lesley S. Curtis and Christen Mucher
Author’s Note
To the Reader
B. Ardouin
Stella
Glossary of Foreign Words and Expressions
Original Explanatory Notes
Editors’ Notes
About the Editors
Editors’ Acknowledgments
We wish to thank the many people who helped make this project possible, especially our series editors David Kazanjian, Elizabeth McHenry, and Priscilla Wald, as well as Eric Zinner, Ciara McLaughlin, Alicia Nadkarni, and the editorial team at NYU Press. We would also like to extend our thanks to Deborah Jenson and the members of Duke University’s Haiti Lab, who gave us the opportunity to discuss early Haitian literature with an incredible group of scholars. Thanks go, too, to Laurent Dubois, Jacques Pierre,
