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I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem
Maryse Conde
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Description for I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem
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This wild and entertaining novel expands on the true story of the West Indian slave Tituba, who was accused of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts, arrested in 1692, and forgotten in jail until the general amnesty for witches two years later. Maryse Conde brings Tituba out of historical silence and creates for her a fictional childhood, adolescence, and old age. She turns her into what she calls a sort of female hero, an epic heroine, like the legendary `Nanny of the maroons,' who, schooled in the sorcery and magical ritual of obeah, is arrested for healing members of the ... Read more
This wild and entertaining novel expands on the true story of the West Indian slave Tituba, who was accused of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts, arrested in 1692, and forgotten in jail until the general amnesty for witches two years later. Maryse Conde brings Tituba out of historical silence and creates for her a fictional childhood, adolescence, and old age. She turns her into what she calls a sort of female hero, an epic heroine, like the legendary `Nanny of the maroons,' who, schooled in the sorcery and magical ritual of obeah, is arrested for healing members of the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
227
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Series
CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French (Paperback)
Condition
New
Weight
328g
Number of Pages
246
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813927671
SKU
V9780813927671
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Ref
99-99
About Maryse Conde
Originally from Guadeloupe, Maryse Conde is Professor Emerita of French and Romance Philology at Columbia University. She is the author of numerous novels, including Heremakhonon, Segu, Crossing the Mangrove, Tales from the Heart, Who Slashed Celanire's Throat? (winner of the 2005 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for fiction), and The Story of the Cannibal Woman. She now divides her time between New ... Read more
Reviews for I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem
In less sure hands, this short, powerful novel, which won France's Grand Prix Litteraire de la Femme in 1986, might well have become merely an extended denunciation of a perverted and evil society. What makes it larger and richer are Ms. Conde's gift for storytelling and her unswerving focus on her characters, combined with her mordant sense of humor. ... Read more