I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem - Conde, Maryse
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This wild and entertaining novel expands on the true story of theWest Indian slave Tituba, who was accused of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts, arrested in 1692, and forgotten in jail until the general amnesty for witches twoyears later. Maryse Cond brings Tituba out of historical silence and creates forher a fictional childhood, adolescence, and old age. She turns her into what shecalls "a sort of female hero, an epic heroine, like the legendary 'Nanny ofthe maroons, '" who, schooled in the sorcery and magical ritual of obeah, isarrested for healing members of the family that ownsher. CARAF…mehr

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This wild and entertaining novel expands on the true story of theWest Indian slave Tituba, who was accused of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts, arrested in 1692, and forgotten in jail until the general amnesty for witches twoyears later. Maryse Cond brings Tituba out of historical silence and creates forher a fictional childhood, adolescence, and old age. She turns her into what shecalls "a sort of female hero, an epic heroine, like the legendary 'Nanny ofthe maroons, '" who, schooled in the sorcery and magical ritual of obeah, isarrested for healing members of the family that ownsher. CARAF Books: Caribbean and African LiteratureTranslated from French This book has beensupported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, an independentfederal agencY.
Autorenporträt
Maryse Condé is Professor Emerita of French at Columbia University and author of the internationally celebrated novels Segu and The Belle Créole (Virginia). In 2018 she won the prestigious New Academy Prize in Literature. Angela Y. Davis is Professor of History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Ann Armstrong Scarboro is president of Mosaic Media and producer, with Susan Wilcox of Full Duck Productions, of the series Ethnic Expressions from the Mosaic of the Americas. Richard Philcox is the English-language translator of many of Condé's novels.