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Batouala; a true Black novel. / By René Maran. Translated by Barbara Beck and Alexandre Mboukou.

LIBRA - Rare PQ3949.M247 B3813 1974 Banks copy
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Maran, René, 1887-1960.
Contributor:
Herdeck, Donald E., 1924-2005, writer of introduction.
Beck, Barbara, translator.
Mboukou, Alexandre, translator.
Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)
Series:
Fawcett premier book
A Fawcett premier book ; P707
Standardized Title:
Batouala. English
Language:
English
French
Subjects (All):
Villages--Africa--Fiction.
Villages.
African fiction (French)--Translations into English.
African fiction (French).
Caribbean fiction (French)--Translations into English.
Caribbean fiction (French).
Africa.
Genre:
Translations.
Fiction.
Penn Provenance:
Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
Physical Description:
160 pages : map ; 19 cm.
Place of Publication:
Greenwich, Conn., Fawcett Publications, Inc., 1974.
Notes:
"Fawcett World Library"
Originally published in 1921 by Albin Michel; it received the Prix Goncourt in 1922. The author's approved "édition définitive" appeared under the same imprint in 1938. This is the first English edition of the definitive edition.
Published in 1972 by Black Orpheus Press, Inc.
"November 1974"--T.p. verso.
Local Notes:
Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
OCLC:
1994610

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