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Ninette of Sin Street : a novella / by Vitalis Danon ; edited with an introduction and notes by Lia Brozgal and Sarah Abrevaya Stein ; translated by Jane Kuntz

Author
Danon, Vitalis, 1897-1969
Uniform Title
Ninette de la rue du Péché. English
Published
Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2017]
Physical Description
133 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Additional Creators
Brozgal, Lia Nicole, 1972-, Stein, Sarah Abrevaya, and Kuntz, Jane

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Contents
Introduction: Colonial Tunisia from the Gutter Up / Lia Brozgal and Sarah Abrevaya Stein -- Ninette of Sin Street, p.31 / Vitalis Danon -- A Flaneur in Sfax, 1918, p.87 -- A Visit to the Jews of Djerba (Travel Notes), 1929, p.91 -- Mission to Gabes, 1937, p.103 -- A Swan Song, 1963, p.121 -- Acknowledgments, p.125 -- Notes, p.127 -- Contributors, p.135
Summary
"Ninette is an unlikely protagonist: Compelled by poverty to work as a prostitute, she dreams of a better life and and an education for her son. Plucky and street-wise, she enrolls her son in the local school and the story unfolds as she narrates her life to the school's headmistress. Ninette's account is both a classic rags-to-riches tale and a subtle, incisive critique of French colonialism."--Back cover.
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ISBN
9781503601567 (hardcover)
1503601560 (hardcover)
9781503602137 (paperback)
1503602133 (paperback)
Note
"Translated from the French."
"First published in 1938 in French under the title Ninette de la rue du Péché: une nouvelle populiste by Éditions de la Kahéna, Tunis, Tunisia."
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references.
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