women writers and French colonial slavery
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Kadish, Doris Y.
- Publish Year
- 2014
- Shelfmark
- FR 54 2012 - B
- Thesaurus
- schrijvers, literatuur, abolitionisme, etniciteit, kolonialisme, slavernij, Frankrijk
- Description
- This book offers readings of works by Germaine de Staël, Claire de Duras, and Marceline Desbordes-Valmore. In addition to these canonical French authors, it calls attention to the lives and works of two lesser-known figures, Charlotte Dard and Sophie Doin. Approaching these five women through the prism of paternal authority, the book explores the empathy that daughters show toward blacks as well as their resistance against the oppression exercised by male colonists and other authority figures. The works by these French women antislavery writers bear significant similarities with twentieth and twenty-first century Francophone texts.