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Empsael Et Zoraide

Empsael Et Zoraide

Little, Roger
de Saint-Pierre, Bernardin

Paperback

Series: Exeter French Texts

Classic FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 0859894649
ISBN13: 9780859894647
Publisher: University of Exeter Press
Published: Feb 1 1995
Pages: 188
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.49 Width: 5.87 Depth: 8.26
Language: French
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.

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