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White Women Captives in North Africa
Khalid Bekkaoui
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Description for White Women Captives in North Africa
Paperback. "A fascinating anthology of historical narratives composed from the late sixteenth to early nineteenth centuries by European women abducted by Muslim corsairs and enslaved in North Africa during the age of piracy. Many of the narratives are very rare and are by women coming from diverse social and economic backgrounds"-- Num Pages: 321 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJF; HBJH; HBTB; MMJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
A fascinating anthology of narratives from the period 1735-1830, by European women who recount their enslavement in North Africa. The first such collection, it includes an extensive introduction which links the discourse on contemporary Western women captives in Iran, Afghanistan and Iraq with that of former white captives in North Africa.
A fascinating anthology of narratives from the period 1735-1830, by European women who recount their enslavement in North Africa. The first such collection, it includes an extensive introduction which links the discourse on contemporary Western women captives in Iran, Afghanistan and Iraq with that of former white captives in North Africa.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
321
Condition
New
Number of Pages
303
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349307487
SKU
V9781349307487
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15
About Khalid Bekkaoui
KHALID BEKKAOUI is Professor of English at Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdallah University, Fez, Morocco. He is the author of Signs of Spectacular Resistance (1998) and editor of George Peele's The Battle of Alcazar (2000), and Imagining Morocco (2008). He is currently working on a book project under the title Muslim Discovery of Britain.
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