Moi, Tituba sorcière… Noire de Salem — Roman (1986)

Authors : Maryse Condé — Romancière guadeloupéenne, auteure majeure de la littérature antillaise

Genres : roman

Original language : francais

Editions

  • , 1986 en

Description

Historical novel by Maryse Condé, published in 1986. The novelist rewrites the history of the Salem witch trials (1692) by giving a voice to Tituba, a Caribbean enslaved woman at the heart of the accusations. Condé recounts the rise and fall of a free Black woman, a marron before her time, who defies Puritan colonial power. Through Tituba, Condé explores multiple ethnicity (Black Amerindian), spiritual resistance, and the transmission of African memory to the Caribbean. The novel is a feminist and anticolonial rewriting of a founding event in American history.

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