Description
In this talk, Katherine Ibbett explores some elements of the varied career of one Julien Poydras of False River, Louisiana: enslaver, terrible poet, defender of Roman law practices relating to the Mississippi. These elements have in common a particular relation to the bank of the river. Drawing on the history of the French term “riverain,” – literally dweller of the riverbank, but eventually coming to mean something more like “resident” – Ibbett asks how the view from Poydras’s riverbank might illuminate questions of residency, settlement and displacement in colonial Louisiana.
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