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A Dugout Canoe Comes Ashore On The Island Of Saint-barthelemy In The Antilles; In It Are A Black Man, Arsene, And A Sleeping White Child, Sarah. Seeking Refuge, They Are Taken In By A Good Man, But The Overseer Of His Plantation Threatens Both Arsene And Sarah With The Loss Of Their Freedom. Deborah Jenson And Doris Y. Kadish Introduce Sarah, An 1821 Novella By Desbordes-valmore, Explaining Its Autobiographical Background, Political Context (the Revolt Of Blacks Against Napoleon's Soldiers), And Literary Genre (sentimentalism). The Novella Was A Precursor To Anticolonial And Antislavery Texts By Claire De Duras, Victor Hugo, George Sand, And Alphonse De Lamartine.--jacket. Introduction -- Selected Works By Marceline Desbordes-valmore -- Suggestions For Further Reading -- Note On The Text -- Sarah. Marceline Desbordes-valmore ; Edited By Deborah Jenson And Doris Y. Kadish. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [xxxi]-xxxvi). Selected Works By Marceline Desbordes-valmore: P. [xxix]-xxx. Text In French, With Introductory And Critical Matter In English.

Author

Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

Publisher

New York: The Modern Language Association of America

Published

2008

Language

FR

ISBN

9781603290265

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Romance, Humanities