Sab
By Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda
By Catherine Davies
Delivery Exc. North and South America
Delivery to North and South America
Click Here to Buy from Your Preferred BooksellerBook Information
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 978-0-7190-5706-9
- Pages: 224
- Price: £10.99
- Published Date: May 2001
- Series: Hispanic Texts
Description
This tale of a slave's unrequited love for the woman who owns him is set in nineteenth-century colonial Cuba and was the only feminist-abolitionist novel published during the century in Spain or its colonies. This unique text raises important issues concerning power, race, gender and class in colonial societies, colonial and post-colonial subjectivity and identities, feminist appropriations of the abolitionist agenda, human rights discourse, and literary and philosophical issues associated with enlightenment thought. This new annotated critical edition is the first to provide the original Spanish text along with a substantial and authoritative introduction in English, as well as maps and tables relating to nineteenth-century Cuba, a vocabulary list, and suggestions for further reading.
Contents
1. Introduction
2. Sab
3. Appendices
i. Map and figures
ii. Life and works of Gomes de Avellaneda
iii. A description of Puerto Principe, 1840
iv. 'El cantico del esclavo'
Bibliography
Temas de discusion; Temas de debate
Selected vocabulary
Author
Catherine Davies is Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies, University of Manchester