Prasad, Pratima

Pratima Prasad is associate professor of French at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. She is the author of "Colonialism, Race, and the French Romantic Imagination" and the editor, with Susan McCready, of "Novel Stages: Drama and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century France". Selected articles and essays include "Intimate Strangers: Interracial Encounters in Romantic Narratives of Slavery" (in "L'Esprit Createur"); "L'insularite, 'l'indigenisme' et l'inceste dans Paul et Virginie" (in "L'autre en memoire" [ed. Laporte]); "Contesting Realism: Mimesis and Performance in George Sand's Novels" (in