I, Tituba, Black Witch of SalemBallantine Books, 1994 - 225 pages Offered here for the first time in English is I, Tituba Black Witch of Salem, by Guadeloupean writer Maryse Conde. This wild and entertaining novel, winner of the 1986 Grand Prix Litteraire de la Femme, 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 family that owns her. Rich with postmodern irony, the novel even includes an encounter with Hester Prawn of Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter. Conde breaks new ground in both style and content, transcending cultural and epochal boundaries, not only exposing the hypocrisy of Puritan New England but challenging us to look at racism and religious bigotry in contemporary America. This highly readable and ultimately joyful novel celebrates Tituba's unique voice, exploring issues of identity and the implications of Otherness in Western literary tradition. Its multiple layers will delight a wide variety of readers. |
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... ancestors , and helps create for them an alternative to the colonial and post - colonial traditions from which they have been excluded . " -Boston Sunday Globe " In the hands of novelist Maryse Condé , Tituba's life be- comes a ...
... ancestors , and helps create for them an alternative to the colonial and post - colonial traditions from which they have been excluded . " -Boston Sunday Globe " In the hands of novelist Maryse Condé , Tituba's life be- comes a ...
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Maryse Condé. Foreword art of healing and ancestor reverence and , what is certainly not a contradiction , the spiritual wonderment of sexual love . It is because of her dedication to the ways of her ancestors- and the use of her healing ...
Maryse Condé. Foreword art of healing and ancestor reverence and , what is certainly not a contradiction , the spiritual wonderment of sexual love . It is because of her dedication to the ways of her ancestors- and the use of her healing ...
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... ancestors , my father's father and my mother's father , two fervent Separat- ists who had come to build the kingdom of the true God . You know how dangerous such projects are . No need to describe the fanaticism in which their ...
... ancestors , my father's father and my mother's father , two fervent Separat- ists who had come to build the kingdom of the true God . You know how dangerous such projects are . No need to describe the fanaticism in which their ...
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