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I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem. Maryse Conde

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ISBN: 9780813927671 | 256 pages | 7 Mb

• I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem
  

• Maryse Conde
  

• Page: 256
  

• Format: pdf, ePub, fb2, mobi
  

• ISBN: 9780813927671
  

• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
  

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Overview

This wild and entertaining novel 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 Condé 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 ...