ZIEMIA OBIECANA CZY ZIEMIA PRZEKLĘTA? OBRAZ MAROKA W LITERATURZE PODRÓŻNICZEJ KOŃCA XVIII W.
A Promised Land or a Cursed Land? The Image of Morocco in Travel Literature at the End of the 18th Century

Author(s): Małgorzata Sokołowicz
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Studies of Literature, French Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Morocco; travel literature; end of the 18th century; Jan Potocki; Louis de Chénier; Pierre Raymond de Brisson
Summary/Abstract: The present paper describes the image of Morocco emerging from three texts dating from the end of the 18th century: Recherches historiques sur les Maures et Histoire de l’Empire de Maroc (1787) written by Louis de Chénier, a French consul in Morocco; Histoire du naufrage et de la captivité de M. de Brisson (1789) by Pierre Raymond de Brisson, a French officer whose ship sank on the way to Senegal and who became a hostage of Moroccan tribes; and Voyage dans l’Empire du Maroc (1892) written in French by a Polish nobleman and traveller, Jean Potocki. The first part of the paper focuses on the climate and animals of the Empire and the second on its inhabitants.

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