Rhetorique negre au XVIIIe siecle

Des recits de voyage a la litterature abolitionniste

by David Diop

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Extent: 403 pages

Publisher: Classiques Garnier

Subjects: African Studies, Literary Studies

Series: L'Europe des Lumieres

Series volume number: 51

Language: French

Paperback (Published)

(May 2018)

ISBN: 9782406062912

Price: $69.00

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This study shows how the literary transposition of African words gives them the appearance of being prosopopoeic. Drawing their inspiration from travel narratives, abolitionist texts create a significant form of black rhetoric that is found in general representations of the African in the eighteenth century.

  • By (author) David Diop