Translating Slavery: Gender and Race in French Abolitionist Writing, 1780-1830

Translating Slavery explores the complex interrelationships that exist between translation, gender, and race by focusing on antislavery writing by or about French women in the French revolutionary period. Now in a two-volume collection, Translating Slavery closely examines what happens when translators translate and when writers treat issues of gender and race. The volumes explore the theoretical, linguistic, and literary complexities involved when white writers, especially women, took up their pens to denounce the injustices to which blacks were subjected under slavery.

Doris Y. Kadish, Distinguised Research Professor of French and Romance Languages at the University of Georgia, continues to promote the emerging field of French slavery studies. Her publications include Slavery in the Caribbean Francophone World: Distant Voices, Forgotten Acts, Forged Identities, and editions of Sopie Doin's La Famille noire and Charlotte Dard's La Chaumiere africaine. Two other edited books are forthcoming: Marceline Desbords-Valmore's Sarah and Charles de Rmusat's L'Habitation de Saint-Domingue. Franoise Massardier-Kenney is professor of French and director of the Institute for Applied Linguistics at Kent State University. She is the editor of the American Translators Association Scholarly Series and coeditor of the journal George Sand Studies. Her publications include the monograph Gender in the Fiction of George Sand and Antoine Berman's Toward a Translation Critisicm: John Donne (Kent State University Press, 2009).