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Tituba, Reluctant Witch of Salem: Devilish Indians and Puritan Fantasies (American Social Experience Series)
Elaine G. Breslaw
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Description for Tituba, Reluctant Witch of Salem: Devilish Indians and Puritan Fantasies (American Social Experience Series)
Paperback. Reconstructing the life of the slave woman at the center of the notorious Salem witch trials, this book follows Tituba from her likely origins in South America to Barbados, forcefully dispelling the commonly-held belief that Tituba was African. Series: American Social Experience. Num Pages: 270 pages, 15 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLH; HRQX5; HRQX9; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
In this important book, Elaine Breslaw claims to have rediscovered Tituba, the elusive, mysterious, and often mythologized Indian woman accused of witchcraft in Salem in 1692 and immortalized in Arthur Miller's The Crucible. Reconstructing the life of the slave woman at the center of the notorious Salem witch trials, the book follows Tituba from her likely origins in South America to Barbados, forcefully dispelling the commonly-held belief that Tituba was African. The uniquely multicultural nature of life on a seventeenth-century Barbadan sugar plantation-defined by a mixture of English, American Indian, and African ways and folklore-indelibly shaped ... Read more
In this important book, Elaine Breslaw claims to have rediscovered Tituba, the elusive, mysterious, and often mythologized Indian woman accused of witchcraft in Salem in 1692 and immortalized in Arthur Miller's The Crucible. Reconstructing the life of the slave woman at the center of the notorious Salem witch trials, the book follows Tituba from her likely origins in South America to Barbados, forcefully dispelling the commonly-held belief that Tituba was African. The uniquely multicultural nature of life on a seventeenth-century Barbadan sugar plantation-defined by a mixture of English, American Indian, and African ways and folklore-indelibly shaped ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
NYU Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Series
Tituba, Reluctant Witch of Salem
Condition
New
Weight
424g
Number of Pages
270
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780814713075
SKU
V9780814713075
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99-50
About Elaine G. Breslaw
Elaine G. Breslaw retired as Professor of History from Morgan State University in Baltimore after 29 years and has taught on an adjunct basis at Johns Hopkins University, Goucher College, and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She is the author of Tituba, Reluctant Witch of Salem: Devilish Indians and Puritan Fantasies (NYU Press, 1995), Witches of the Atlantic World: An ... Read more
Reviews for Tituba, Reluctant Witch of Salem: Devilish Indians and Puritan Fantasies (American Social Experience Series)
A fascinating theory about the origins of the witch hunt that is sure to influence future historians... a valuable probe of how myths can feed hysteria -The Washington Post Book World A fine example of readable scholarship. -Baltimore Sun An imaginative reconstruction of what might have been Tituba's past. -Times Literary Supplement