Translating Slavery Gender and Race in French Women’s Writing, 1783–1823 Edited by Doris Y. Kadish and Françoise Massardier-Kenney Translation Studies Series, #2 1994, 364 pp ISBN 0-87338-498-9 Cloth, $32.00 courtesy of our partner, Atlas Books Call (419) 281-1802 to order by phone.

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Doris Y. Kadish, Distinguished 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, Sopie Doin, LaFamille noire, and Charlotte Dard, La Chaumière africaine. Two other edited books are forthcoming: Marceline Desbordes-Valmore’s Sarah and Charles de Rémusat’s L’Habitationde Saint-Domingue. Françoise 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 (2001) and translations of Sand’s Valvèdre (2007) and Antoine Berman’s Toward a Translation Criticism: John Donne.