Colonial Memory, Narrative, and Sentimentalism in Desbordes-Valmore's Les Veillées des Antilles

Setting Desbordes-Valmore's Les Veillées des Antilles in the context of the nineteenth-century sentimental novella and exotic narrative, the article examines how generic hybridity in Sarah shapes colonial memory and amnesia. The poem in the novella produces discontinuities in the narrative that spur acts of remembrance and force identification with the slave.