Empsael Et Zoraide (Paperback)

Bernardin de Saint-Pierre is for most people the author of one book: "Paul et Virginie." This new edition of his play "Empsael et Zoraide," presented in a modernised spelling, makes available a considerably more muscular text which illustrates his abolitionist stance through its central irony: the masters are black and their slaves white, joining forces in the antislavery debate which reached its height with the French Revolution. Bernardin thus introduces into it a rare element of humour which, had his play ever been performed, would have made his audiences sit up and think. This will be of interest to scholars and senior students interested in Black Studies, the French Enlightenment and the literature of revolution.

General

Imprint:	University Of Exeter Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Exeter French Texts
Release date:	February 1995
First published:	April 1995
Authors:	Bernardin de Saint Pierre
Editors:	Roger Little
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	188
ISBN-13:	978-0-85989-464-7
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Drama texts, plays > General
LSN:	0-85989-464-9
Barcode:	9780859894647

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