Ourika Translated Into English

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Modern Language Association
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781603292290

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Ourika by Anonim Pdf

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."

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1824
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0021489281

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Ourika. [Translated into English.] by Anonim Pdf

Author : Claire de Durfort
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0935072012

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Ourika by Claire de Durfort Pdf

Author : Claire de Durfort Duras (duchesse de)
Publisher : MLA Texts and Translations
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015034010580

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Ourika by Claire de Durfort Duras (duchesse de) Pdf

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."

Author : José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi
Publisher : Modern Language Association
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781603295383

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Life and Deeds of the Famous Gentleman Don Catrín de la Fachenda by José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi Pdf

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. ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

Author : Doris Y. Kadish,Françoise Massardier-Kenney
Publisher : Kent State University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0873384989

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Translating Slavery by Doris Y. Kadish,Françoise Massardier-Kenney Pdf

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."

Author : Françoise de Graffigny
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780191622618

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Letters of a Peruvian Woman by Françoise de Graffigny Pdf

'It has taken me a long time, my dearest Aza, to fathom the cause of that contempt in which women are held in this country ...' Zilia, an Inca Virgin of the Sun, is captured by the Spanish conquistadores and brutally separated from her lover, Aza. She is rescued and taken to France by Déterville, a nobleman, who is soon captivated by her. One of the most popular novels of the eighteenth century, the Letters of a Peruvian Woman recounts Zilia's feelings on her separation from both her lover and her culture, and her experience of a new and alien society. Françoise de Graffigny's bold and innovative novel clearly appealed to the contemporary taste for the exotic and the timeless appetite for love stories. But by fusing sentimental fiction and social commentary, she also created a new kind of heroine, defined by her intellect as much as her feelings. The novel's controversial ending calls into question traditional assumptions about the role of women both in fiction and society, and about what constitutes 'civilization'. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Author : Doris Kadish
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781781386538

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Fathers, Daughters, and Slaves by Doris Kadish Pdf

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.

Author : Doris Y. Kadish
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9781846318467

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Fathers, Daughters, and Slaves by Doris Y. Kadish Pdf

Fathers, Daughters, and Slaves explores the unique contribution by French women writers to Haitian politics and culture during the early nineteenth century, when Haiti was on the verge of reestablishing slavery and when class, race, and gender identities were being renegotiated. It offers in-depth readings of works by Germaine de Staël, Claire de Duras, and Marceline Desbordes- Valmore, as well as two lesserknown but important writers, Charlotte Dard and Sophie Doin, all of whom were writers living in France commenting on Haiti from afar, and all of whom were staunch opponents of slavery. Exploring the similarities between the works of these French women and twentiethand twenty-first-century francophone texts, it offers a much-needed new voice to the exploration of colonial fiction, Caribbean writing, romanticism, and feminism, undercutting the neat distinctions between the cultures of France and its colonies, as well as nineteenth- and twentieth-century writing.

Author : Robin Mitchell
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820354330

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Vénus Noire by Robin Mitchell Pdf

Even though there were relatively few people of color in postrevolutionary France, images of and discussions about black women in particular appeared repeatedly in a variety of French cultural sectors and social milieus. In Vénus Noire, Robin Mitchell shows how these literary and visual depictions of black women helped to shape the country’s postrevolutionary national identity, particularly in response to the trauma of the French defeat in the Haitian Revolution. Vénus Noire explores the ramifications of this defeat in examining visual and literary representations of three black women who achieved fame in the years that followed. Sarah Baartmann, popularly known as the Hottentot Venus, represented distorted memories of Haiti in the French imagination, and Mitchell shows how her display, treatment, and representation embodied residual anger harbored by the French. Ourika, a young Senegalese girl brought to live in France by the Maréchal Prince de Beauvau, inspired plays, poems, and clothing and jewelry fads, and Mitchell examines how the French appropriated black female identity through these representations while at the same time perpetuating stereotypes of the hypersexual black woman. Finally, Mitchell shows how demonization of Jeanne Duval, longtime lover of the poet Charles Baudelaire, expressed France’s need to rid itself of black bodies even as images and discourses about these bodies proliferated. The stories of these women, carefully contextualized by Mitchell and put into dialogue with one another, reveal a blind spot about race in French national identity that persists in the postcolonial present.

Author : Mary Ellen Birkett,Christopher Rivers
Publisher : Modern Language Association of America
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1603290184

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Approaches to Teaching Duras's Ourika by Mary Ellen Birkett,Christopher Rivers Pdf

When it was first published, in 1823, Claire de Duras's novel Ourika became a best seller almost immediately, and in recent decades, instructors have found it an irresistible addition to their syllabi. But from a teacher's perspective the novel presents something of a paradox. It is short, its narrative structure is uncomplicated, its vocabulary is limited, its plot is straightforward. It thus lends itself to "simple" readings that fail to reveal the novel's rich fund of social and historical themes. Set against the backdrop of the French and Haitian revolutions, the Terror, and the restoration and featuring the first black woman narrator in French literature, Ourika raises issues of identity, inequality, exclusion, power, and race and gender relations. The goal of this Approaches volume is to help teachers bring out the novel's profound and complex underpinnings and reveal Ourika, its Senegalese protagonist, as a victim of history and a timeless tragic heroine.Part 1 provides an overview of editions of the novel and secondary resources, including critical, historical, and biographical studies. Also featured is a useful time line situating Duras's life in its historical framework. Part 2 offers a wealth of pedagogical approaches, grouped in four sections, which focus on the historical context of the novel; on race, gender, and class issues; on teaching Ourika with other works of literature; and on interdisciplinary perspectives.Throughout the volume, the editions of Ourika referred to are the MLA Texts and Translations paperback editions, in French and in English translation, published in 1994.

Author : Eric Martone
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 707 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008-12-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313344497

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Encyclopedia of Blacks in European History and Culture [2 volumes] by Eric Martone Pdf

Blacks have played a significant part in European civilization since ancient times. This encyclopedia illuminates blacks in European history, literature, and popular culture. It emphasizes the considerable scope of black influence in, and contributions to, European culture. The first blacks arrived in Europe as slaves and later as laborers and soldiers, and black immigrants today along with others are transforming Europe into multicultural states. This indispensable set expands our knowledge of blacks in Western civilization. More than 350 essay entries introduce students and other readers to the white European response to blacks in their countries, the black experiences and impact there, and the major interactions between Europe and Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States that resulted in the settling of blacks in Europe. The range of information presented is impressive, with entries on noted European political, literary, and cultural figures of black descent from ancient times to the present, major literary works that had a substantial impact on European perceptions of blacks, black holidays and festivals, the struggle for civil equality for blacks, the role and influence of blacks in contemporary European popular culture, black immigration to Europe, black European identity, and much more. Offered as well are entries on organizations that contributed to the development of black political and social rights in Europe, representations of blacks in European art and cultural symbols, and European intellectual and scientific theories on blacks. Individual entries on Britain, Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, Russia, Central Europe, Scandinavia, and Eastern Europe include historical overviews of the presence and contributions of blacks and discussion of country's role in the African slave trade and abolition and its colonies in Africa and the Caribbean. Suggestions for further reading accompany each entry. A chronology, resource guide, and photos complement the text.

Author : JOHN FOWLES
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN by JOHN FOWLES Pdf

Author : Claire Louise R B De Durfort
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1022788140

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Ourika [By C.L.R.B. De Durfort]. From the French by Claire Louise R B De Durfort Pdf

This book is a novel written by Claire Louise R.B. de Durfort, translated from the French original. The novel tells the story of Ourika, a young African girl who is rescued from slavery and raised in a French aristocratic family during the early 19th century. Ourika struggles to find her place in a society that excludes her because of her race and culture, and faces a crisis of identity and belonging. The novel is a poignant and powerful exploration of race, class, gender, and colonialism, and a major work of early French feminism. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Jonathan Evans,Fruela Fernandez
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317219484

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The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Politics by Jonathan Evans,Fruela Fernandez Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Politics presents the first comprehensive, state of the art overview of the multiple ways in which ‘politics’ and ‘translation’ interact. Divided into four sections with thirty-three chapters written by a roster of international scholars, this handbook covers the translation of political ideas, the effects of political structures on translation and interpreting, the politics of translation and an array of case studies that range from the Classical Mediterranean to contemporary China. Considering established topics such as censorship, gender, translation under fascism, translators and interpreters at war, as well as emerging topics such as translation and development, the politics of localization, translation and interpreting in democratic movements, and the politics of translating popular music, the handbook offers a global and interdisciplinary introduction to the intersections between translation and interpreting studies and politics. With a substantial introduction and extensive bibliographies, this handbook is an indispensable resource for students and researchers of translation theory, politics and related areas.