Author: Maryse Condé
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780813927671
Category : Autobiographical fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from FrenchThis book has been supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, an independent federal agencY
I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem
Author: Maryse Condé
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780813927671
Category : Autobiographical fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from FrenchThis book has been supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, an independent federal agencY
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780813927671
Category : Autobiographical fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from FrenchThis book has been supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, an independent federal agencY
I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem
Author: Maryse Condé
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780571196661
Category : Barbados
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Among the young women of Salem, Massachusetts, who were accused of witchcraft in 1692 was a West Indian slave who was released two years later and sold. This novel creates for her a fictional childhood in Barbados, where she was bought by the family who took her to Salem.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780571196661
Category : Barbados
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Among the young women of Salem, Massachusetts, who were accused of witchcraft in 1692 was a West Indian slave who was released two years later and sold. This novel creates for her a fictional childhood in Barbados, where she was bought by the family who took her to Salem.
I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem
Author: Maryse Condé
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780785729303
Category : Salem (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A fictionalized account of the West Indian slave Tituba, who was accused of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692, and was arrested and jailed for two years.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780785729303
Category : Salem (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A fictionalized account of the West Indian slave Tituba, who was accused of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692, and was arrested and jailed for two years.
Tituba, Reluctant Witch of Salem
Author: Elaine G. Breslaw
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814713076
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Tituba, a young house servant from the West Indies, allegedly influenced and encouraged occult activities among teenage girls in 17th century Massachusetts, which led to the infamous witch hunts of Salem. This book offers "an imaginative reconstruction of what might have been Tituba's past".--TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT. "A valuable probe of how myths can feed hysteria".--THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD. 15 photos.
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814713076
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Tituba, a young house servant from the West Indies, allegedly influenced and encouraged occult activities among teenage girls in 17th century Massachusetts, which led to the infamous witch hunts of Salem. This book offers "an imaginative reconstruction of what might have been Tituba's past".--TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT. "A valuable probe of how myths can feed hysteria".--THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD. 15 photos.
I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem
Author: Maryse Condé
Publisher: One World/Ballantine
ISBN: 9780345384201
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Blending the fictional with the factual, this highly praised novel ranges from the warm shores of seventeenth-century Barbados to the harsh realities of the slave trade, and the cold customs of Puritanical New England. It tells the story of Tituba, the only Black victim of the Salem witch trials and in doing so recalls a life of extraordinary experiences and mystical powers. Foreword by Angela Davis. Winner of France's prestigious Grand Prix Literaire de la Femme.
Publisher: One World/Ballantine
ISBN: 9780345384201
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Blending the fictional with the factual, this highly praised novel ranges from the warm shores of seventeenth-century Barbados to the harsh realities of the slave trade, and the cold customs of Puritanical New England. It tells the story of Tituba, the only Black victim of the Salem witch trials and in doing so recalls a life of extraordinary experiences and mystical powers. Foreword by Angela Davis. Winner of France's prestigious Grand Prix Literaire de la Femme.
Tituba of Salem Village
Author: Ann Petry
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504019873
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
Young readers “will be carried along by the sheer excitement of the story” of 17th-century slavery and witchcraft by the million-copy selling author (The New York Times). In 1688, Tituba and her husband, John, are sold to a Boston minister and sent to the strange world of Salem, Massachusetts. Rumors about witches are spreading like wildfire throughout the state, filling the heads of Salem’s superstitious, God-fearing residents. When the reverend’s suggestible young daughter, Betsey, starts having fits, the townsfolk declare it to be the devil’s work. Suspicion falls on Tituba, who can read fortunes and spin flax into thread so fine it seems like magic. When suspicion turns to hatred, Tituba finds herself in grave danger. Will she be judged guilty of witchcraft and hanged? Loosely based on accounts of the period and trial transcripts, Ann Petry’s compelling historical novel draws readers into the hysteria of America’s deadly witch hunts.
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504019873
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
Young readers “will be carried along by the sheer excitement of the story” of 17th-century slavery and witchcraft by the million-copy selling author (The New York Times). In 1688, Tituba and her husband, John, are sold to a Boston minister and sent to the strange world of Salem, Massachusetts. Rumors about witches are spreading like wildfire throughout the state, filling the heads of Salem’s superstitious, God-fearing residents. When the reverend’s suggestible young daughter, Betsey, starts having fits, the townsfolk declare it to be the devil’s work. Suspicion falls on Tituba, who can read fortunes and spin flax into thread so fine it seems like magic. When suspicion turns to hatred, Tituba finds herself in grave danger. Will she be judged guilty of witchcraft and hanged? Loosely based on accounts of the period and trial transcripts, Ann Petry’s compelling historical novel draws readers into the hysteria of America’s deadly witch hunts.
Tree of Life
Author: Maryse Condé
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Guadeloupe
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Guadeloupe
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
The Belle Créole
Author: Maryse Condé
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813944236
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Possessing one of the most vital voices in international letters, Maryse Condé added to an already acclaimed career the New Academy Prize in Literature in 2018. The twelfth novel by this celebrated author revolves around an enigmatic crime and the young man at its center. Dieudonné Sabrina, a gardener, aged twenty-two and black, is accused of murdering his employer--and lover--Loraine, a wealthy white woman descended from plantation owners. His only refuge is a sailboat, La Belle Créole, a relic of times gone by. Condé follows Dieudonné’s desperate wanderings through the city of Port-Mahault the night of his acquittal, the narrative unfolding through a series of multivoiced flashbacks set against a forbidding backdrop of social disintegration and tumultuous labor strikes in turn-of-the-twenty-first-century Guadeloupe. Twenty-four hours later, Dieudonné’s fate becomes suggestively intertwined with that of the French island itself, though the future of both remains uncertain in the end. Echoes of Faulkner and Lawrence, and even Shakespeare’s Othello, resonate in this tale, yet the drama’s uniquely modern dynamics set it apart from any model in its exploration of love and hate, politics and stereotype, and the attempt to find connections with others across barriers. Through her vividly and intimately drawn characters, Condé paints a rich portrait of a contemporary society grappling with the heritage of slavery, racism, and colonization.
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813944236
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Possessing one of the most vital voices in international letters, Maryse Condé added to an already acclaimed career the New Academy Prize in Literature in 2018. The twelfth novel by this celebrated author revolves around an enigmatic crime and the young man at its center. Dieudonné Sabrina, a gardener, aged twenty-two and black, is accused of murdering his employer--and lover--Loraine, a wealthy white woman descended from plantation owners. His only refuge is a sailboat, La Belle Créole, a relic of times gone by. Condé follows Dieudonné’s desperate wanderings through the city of Port-Mahault the night of his acquittal, the narrative unfolding through a series of multivoiced flashbacks set against a forbidding backdrop of social disintegration and tumultuous labor strikes in turn-of-the-twenty-first-century Guadeloupe. Twenty-four hours later, Dieudonné’s fate becomes suggestively intertwined with that of the French island itself, though the future of both remains uncertain in the end. Echoes of Faulkner and Lawrence, and even Shakespeare’s Othello, resonate in this tale, yet the drama’s uniquely modern dynamics set it apart from any model in its exploration of love and hate, politics and stereotype, and the attempt to find connections with others across barriers. Through her vividly and intimately drawn characters, Condé paints a rich portrait of a contemporary society grappling with the heritage of slavery, racism, and colonization.
Witches, Goddesses, and Angry Spirits
Author: Maha Marouan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780814256633
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780814256633
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
The Secret Service
Author: Wendy Walker
Publisher: Sun & Moon
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
In a quasi-eighteenth century Europe, agents of the secret service use their ability to masquerade as objects to break up a plot against the king and queen.
Publisher: Sun & Moon
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
In a quasi-eighteenth century Europe, agents of the secret service use their ability to masquerade as objects to break up a plot against the king and queen.