Translating slavery : gender and race in French women's writing, 1783-1823
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Translating slavery : gender and race in French women's writing, 1783-1823
（Translation studies, 2）
Kent State University Press, c1994
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-337) and index
Appendixes contain selected French texts by Olympe de Gouges, Germaine de Staël, and Claire de Duras
Description and Table of Contents
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.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Theory, practice, history: translation theory and practice
- translation in context. Part 2 Olympe de Gouges (1748-1793): feminism, theatre, race -"L'esclavage des noirs"
- translations of Gouges - "Reflections on Negroes", "Black Slavery, or the Happy Shipwreck", "Declaration of the Rights of Women", "Response to the American Champion"
- on translating Olympe de Gouges. Part 3 Germaine de Stael (1766-1817): Stael, translation and race
- translations of Stael - "Mirza, or Letters of a Traveller", "An Appeal to the Sovereigns", "Preface to the Translation", "The Spirit of Translations"
- black on white - translation, race, class and power. Part 4 Claire de Duras (1777-1828): Duras, racism and class
- translation of Duras - "Ourika", "Ourika"'s three versions. Appendices: French texts of translated works.
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