{"product_id":"9780859896702","title":"Histoire de Louis Anniaba: ROI D'essenie En Afrique Sur la Cote de Guinee","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe African prince Anniaba is the first black hero in French fiction.  With his French queen, he also forms the first mixed-race couple.  Based on fact, \u003ci\u003eHistorie de Louis Anniaba\u003c\/i\u003e was first published in 1740 but has never before been reprinted.  The story allows a degree of narrative and geographical fantasy, but the legal context of the period, in this volume brought into play for the first time, throws into relief the author’s free-thinking stance.  In other respects, it is a period piece, full of travel and adventure in Africa, on the high seas, in France and on the Barbary Coast.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAnniaba’s relatively fair complexion, impalusable for some, is a mark of his common humanity and of the author’s refusal to accept that everything out of Africa is monstrous.  It is important to rediscover this forgotten text in a world still bearing the scars of racism.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThis is a volume in the Textes littéraires\/Exeter French Texts.  The text, introduction and essential notes are all in French.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Exeter Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47015918665968,"sku":"9780859896702","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780859896702_p0.jpg?v=1769912306","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780859896702","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}