Pratima PrasadPratima 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 Nove in Nineteenth-Century France. Selected articles and essays include "Intimate Strangers: Interracial Encounters in Romantic Narratives of Slavery" (in L'Esprit Créateur); "L'insularité, 'l'indigénisme' et l'inceste dans Paul et Virginie" (in L'autre en mémoire [ed. Laporte]); "Contesting Realism: Mimesis and Performance in George Sand's Novels" (in XIX: Journal of the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes); "Espace colonial et vérité historique dans Indiana" (in Etudes littéraires); "Uncovering Narrative Convention in Sand's Lélia" (in George Sand Studies); "Displaced Performances: The Erotics of George Sand's Theatrical Space" (in Romance Notes); and "Deceiving Disclosures: Androgyny and George Sand's Gabriel" (in French Forum). Read More Read Less