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Writing for Justice Victor S jour, the Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara, and the Age of Transatlantic Emancipations by El na Mortara is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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In Writing for Justice, Elèna Mortara presents a richly layered study of the cultural and intellectual atmosphere of mid-nineteenth-century Europe and the United States, through close readings of the life and work of Victor Séjour, an expat American Creole from New Orleans living in Paris. In addition to writing The Mulatto, an early story on slavery in Saint-Domingue, Séjour penned La Tireuse de cartes (The Fortune-Teller, 1859), a popular play based on the famed Mortara case. In this historical incident, Pope Pius IX kidnapped Edgardo Mortara, the child of a Jewish family living in the Papal States. The details of the play's production—and its reception on both sides of the Atlantic—are intertwined with the events of the Italian Risorgimento and of pre–Civil War America. Writing for Justice is full of surprising encounters with French and American writers and historical figures, including Hugo, Hawthorne, Twain, Napoleon III, Garibaldi, and Lincoln. As Elèna Mortara passionately argues, the enormous amount of public attention received by the case reveals an era of underappreciated transatlantic intellectual exchange, in which an African American writer used notions of emancipatio
Who reads Writing for Justice Victor S jour, the Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara, and the Age of Transatlantic Emancipations?
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- El na Mortara
- Publisher
- Dartmouth College Press
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781611687910
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Romance, Humanities