Sab and Autobiography

by Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda y Arteaga, Nina M. Scott

Overview

Eleven years before Uncle Tom's Cabin fanned the fires of abolition in North America, an aristocratic Cuban woman told an impassioned story of the fatal love of a mulatto slave for his white owner's daughter. So controversial was Sab's theme of miscegenation and its parallel between the powerlessness and enslavement of blacks and the economic and matrimonial subservience of women that the book was not published in Cuba until 1914, seventy-three years after its original 1841 publication in Spain.

Also included in the volume is Avellaneda's Autobiography (1839), whose portrait of an intelligent, flamboyant woman struggling against the restrictions of her era amplifies the novel's exploration of the patriarchal oppression of minorities and women.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780292704428
Publisher:	University of Texas Press
Publication date:	03/01/1993
Series:	Texas Pan American Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	185
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d)

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Introduction
• Autobiography of Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda
• Sab
• Notes
• Works Cited

Editorial Reviews

The first English translation of the major work of a privileged, unconventional, and somewhat neglected Cuban author. . . . A worthy addition to scholarship in Latin American studies, useful in comparative literature and social history courses covering such writers as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Jorge Isaacs, Alejo Carpentier, or Ramon del Valle-Inclán.

Choice

The first English translation of the major work of a privileged, unconventional, and somewhat neglected Cuban author. . . . A worthy addition to scholarship in Latin American studies, useful in comparative literature and social history courses covering such writers as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Jorge Isaacs, Alejo Carpentier, or Ramon del Valle-Inclán.-- "Choice"

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