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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.
Ourika is the story of an African girl growing up in France: based
on a true story, it was a runaway bestseller following its first
publication in Paris in 1823. It is now seen as a novel of
exceptional psychological penetration and intercultural interest,
anticipating Fanon in several ways. Race, class and the role of
women in society are key issues it raises. Ourika is acknowledged
by John Fowles to have inspired his novel The French Lieutenant's
Woman. This is a corrected and updated reprint of the 1998 second
edition of this text, first published by University of Exeter Press
in 1993 in the series Exeter French Texts/Textes litteraires. It is
one of the most consistently successful volumes in the series,
frequently used as a teaching text on university and other courses.
These three tales, hailed by Diderot among others, but unpublished
for over a century (and in one case for nearly two centuries), are
a fictional exploration of Otherness and the intercultural set in
the New World, either among native Americans (Abenakis, Iroquois)
or runaway slaves in Jamaica befriended by Quakers. They argue
powerfully for a reassessment of the philosophe Saint-Lambert,
since they represent a significant contribution to the anti-slavery
debate of the time and to a consideration of cultural relativity,
revitalised by recent postcolonial discourses. This title is Volume
99 in the series Exeter French Texts/Textes litteraires. It
includes an introduction, select bibliography and essential notes,
all in French.
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