Translating Slavery: Gender and Race in French Women's Writing, 1783-1823
- ISBN-10
- 0873384989
- ISBN-13
- 9780873384988
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 376
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1994
- Publisher
- Kent State University Press
- Authors
- Doris Y. Kadish, Françoise Massardier-Kenney
Description
This study explores the complex interrelationships that exist between translation, gender and race. It focuses on anti-slavery writing by French women during the revolutionary period, when a number of them spoke out against the oppression of slaves and women."
Get the book
Other editions
Similar books
-
Translating Slavery: Gender and race in French abolitionist writing, 1780-1830
By Doris Y. Kadish, Françoise Massardier-KenneyThe volumes explore the theoretical, linguistic, and literary complexities involved when white writers, especially women, took up their pens to denounce the injustices to which blacks were subjected under slavery.
-
Colonial Slavery: An Abridged Translation
By Jacob GorenderRIIIBG, t. XV, p. 113–115. On Mortara's estimate, cf. Merrick, Thomas, and Graham, Douglas. População e desenvolvimento no Brasil: uma perspectiva histórica. Economia brasileira: uma visão histórica, p. 47. 4. Cf. Gayoso. Op. cit., p.
-
The French Atlantic Triangle: Literature and Culture of the Slave Trade
By Christopher L. MillerChristopher L. Miller provides a magisterial examination of how the history of slavery, which profoundly shaped the culture of France, has haunted and animated the work of generations of writers and artists.
-
Colonial Slavery: An Abridged Translation
By Bernd ReiterThis is of the utmost relevance to this day as it allows for a new and different way to explain contemporary racial inequalities in post-slavery societies.
-
Slave Young, Slave Long: The American Slave Experience
By Meg GreeneThis award-winning and positively reviewed series takes an in-depth look at patterns of change in ordinary people's lives. Diaries, letters, newspaper accounts, period literature, and other primary resources bring a...
-
The Results of Slavery. / Translated by M.L. Booth.
By Augustin CochinThe Results of Slavery. / Translated by M.L. Booth.
-
New Directions in Slavery Studies: Commodification, Community, and Comparison
By Jeff Forret, Christine E. SearsFor a more detailed discussion of deprivation on the Confederate home front, see Mary Elizabeth Massey, ... see Murdoch John McSween, Confederate Incognito: The Civil War Reports of “Long Grabs,” a.k.a. Murdoch John McSween, ...
-
Voices of the Enslaved in Nineteenth-Century Cuba: A Documentary History
By Gloria García RodríguezA Documentary History Gloria García Rodríguez ... It was not long before there was a confrontation with another contramayoral, the middle-aged Andrés Lucumí (“Lucumí” was yet another tribal name used as a surname), which caused the rest ...
-
Slavery and Dependence in Ancient Egypt: Sources in Translation
By Roger S. Bagnall, Dorothy J. Thompson, Jane L. RowlandsonTranslated ancient sources from over 3000 years of Egyptian history reveal the complex story of slavery in the Nile valley.
-
Ourika: An English Translation
The work represents a number of firsts: the first novel set in Europe to have a black heroine; the first French literary work narrated by a black female protagonist; and, as Fowles points out in the foreword to his translation, "the first ...