Emmanuel Appadocca, Or, Blighted Life: A Tale of the Buccaneers: A Tale of the Boucaneers - Softcover

Philip, Maxwell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1558490760 ISBN 13: 9781558490765

Verlag: University of Massachusetts Press, 1997

Inhaltsangabe

Originally published in 1854, this remarkable novel tells the story of a mulatto son's quest for vengeance against his white father, a sugar planter who abandoned him and his mother. Intent on redeeming his mother's honor, and outraged by the cruelty and greed that slavery has engendered, Appadocca sails the seas with a band of ruthless pirates on a ship named the Black Schooner. The story is swiftly paced and packed with action, and the narrative is enriched and complicated by Appadocca's reflections on the nature and implications of racism, slavery, colonialism, and retribution.
Written by Michel Maxwell Philip (1829-1888), one of the most important Caribbean intellectual-activists of the nineteenth century, Emmanuel Appadocca was published at a time in American history when the slavery crisis was intensifying and civil war loomed.
This new edition, with scholarly commentaries and annotations, will reorient our understanding of the development of Caribbean literature in relation to English and American literary production. It shows that the beginnings of the Anglo-Caribbean novel lie half a century earlier than previously acknowledged.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Massachusetts Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1558490760
• ISBN 13: 9781558490765
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 336
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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