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Ourika
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Modern Language Association |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2014-08-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781603292290 |
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John Fowles presents a remarkable translation of a nineteenth-century work that provided the seed for his acclaimed novel The French Lieutenant's Woman and that will astonish and haunt modern readers. Based on a true story, Claire de Duras's Ourika relates the experiences of a Senegalese girl who is rescued from slavery and raised by an aristocratic French family during the time of the French Revolution. Brought up in a household of learning and privilege, she is unaware of her difference until she overhears a conversation that suddenly makes her conscious of her race--and of the prejudice it arouses. From this point on, Ourika lives her life not as a French woman but as a black woman who feels "cut off from the entire human race." As the Reign of Terror threatens her and her adoptive family, Ourika struggles with her unusual position as an educated African woman in eighteenth-century Europe. A best-seller in the 1820s, Ourika captured the attention of Duras's peers, including Stendhal, and became the subject of four contemporary plays. 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 serious attempt by a white novelist to enter a black mind."
Ourika Translated into English
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 1824 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : BL:A0021489281 |
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Ourika
Author | : Claire de Durfort Duras (duchesse de) |
Publsiher | : MLA Texts and Translations |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : UOM:39015034010580 |
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Based on a true story, Claire de Duras's Ourika relates the experiences of a Senegalese girl who is rescued from slavery and raised by an aristocratic French family during the time of the French Revolution. Brought up in a household of learning and privilege, she is unaware of her difference until she overhears a conversation that suddenly makes her conscious of her race—and of the prejudice it arouses. From this point on, Ourika lives her life not as a French woman but as a black woman who feels "cut off from the entire human race." As the Reign of Terror threatens her and her adoptive family, Ourika struggles with her unusual position as an educated African woman in eighteenth-century Europe.A best-seller in the 1820s, Ourika captured the attention of Duras's peers, including Stendhal, and became the subject of four contemporary plays. 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 John Fowles points out, "the first serious attempt by a white novelist to enter a black mind."
Life and Deeds of the Famous Gentleman Don Catr n de la Fachenda
Author | : José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi |
Publsiher | : Modern Language Association |
Total Pages | : 137 |
Release | : 2021-11-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781603295383 |
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Don Catrín de la Fachenda, here translated into English for the first time, is a picaresque novel by the Mexican writer José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi (1776-1827), best known as the author of El Periquillo Sarniento (The Itching Parrot), often called the first Latin American novel. Don Catrín is three things at once: a rakish pícaro in the tradition of the picaresque; a catrín, a dandy or fop; and a criollo, a person born in the New World and belonging to the same dominant class as their Spanish-born parents but relegated to a secondary status. The novel interrogates then current ideas about the supposed innateness of race and caste and plays with other aspects of the self considered more extrinsic, such as appearance and social disguise. While not directly mentioning the Mexican wars of independence, Don Catrín offers a vivid representation of the political and social frictions that burst into violence around 1810 and gave birth to the independent countries of Latin America. ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
Translating Slavery
Author | : Doris Y. Kadish,Françoise Massardier-Kenney |
Publsiher | : Kent State University Press |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0873384989 |
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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."
Letters of a Peruvian Woman
Author | : Françoise de Graffigny,Mme de Graffigny |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2009-01-08 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780199208173 |
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Graffigny's bold and original novel tells the story of Zilia, an Inca Virgin, rescued from the Spanish and brought to France. Separated from her lover and her culture, she recounts her experiences and personal growth. To this fine new translation are appended extracts from Graffigny's chief source and other writers' fictional responses.
Fathers Daughters and Slaves
Author | : Doris Kadish |
Publsiher | : Liverpool University Press |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 2012-10-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781781386538 |
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This new study brings to life the unique contribution of French women during the early nineteenth century, a key period in the history of colonialism and slavery. It offers in-depth readings of works by five antislavery writers – Germaine de Staël, Claire Duras, Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Charlotte Dard and Sophie Doin.