Clotel Or the President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United StatesM.E. Sharpe, 8 abr 1996 - 278 páginas "As nearly all of its reviewers pointed out, Clotel was an audience-minded performance, an effort to capitalize on the post-Uncle Tom's Cabin "mania" for abolitionist fiction in Great Britain, where William Wells Brown lived between 1849 and 1854. The novel tells the story of Clotel and Althesa, the fictional daughters of Thomas Jefferson and his mixed-race slave. Like the popular and entertaining public lectures that Brown gave in England and America, Clotel is a series of startling, attention-grabbing narrative "attractions." Brown creates in this novel a delivery system for these attractions, in an effort to draw as many readers as possible towards anti-slavery and anti-racist causes. Rough, studded with caricatures, and intimate with the racism it ironizes, Clotel is still capable of creating a potent mix of discomfort and delight. This edition aims to makes it possible to read Clotel in something like its original cultural context. Working Geoffrey Sanborn's Introduction discusses Brown's extensive plagiarism of other authors in composing Clotel, as well as his narrative strategies in the novel."-- |
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Página vii
... characters , or through fictional presentations of real characters in ways that do not distort the historical record . Second , we will reprint works of fiction , poetry , and other forms of literature that are primary sources of the ...
... characters , or through fictional presentations of real characters in ways that do not distort the historical record . Second , we will reprint works of fiction , poetry , and other forms of literature that are primary sources of the ...
Página ix
... character is a mulatto woman , one of two illegitimate daughters of President Thomas Jefferson . Abandoned by her ... characters whose lives are intertwined through implausible , melodramatic encounters . Like other books of its time ...
... character is a mulatto woman , one of two illegitimate daughters of President Thomas Jefferson . Abandoned by her ... characters whose lives are intertwined through implausible , melodramatic encounters . Like other books of its time ...
Página xi
... characters are probably not drawn from Brown's marriage to his first wife , Elizabeth Schooner . She came from an Afro - Dutch family who lived in upstate New York and northern Ohio . One of her relatives would later serve with ...
... characters are probably not drawn from Brown's marriage to his first wife , Elizabeth Schooner . She came from an Afro - Dutch family who lived in upstate New York and northern Ohio . One of her relatives would later serve with ...
Página xii
... characters conform to its tenets . Women of color are no different from white women , he proclaims . They too are pious , chaste , devoted to the domestic sphere , and submissive to their partners.9 These attitudes now seem antiquated ...
... characters conform to its tenets . Women of color are no different from white women , he proclaims . They too are pious , chaste , devoted to the domestic sphere , and submissive to their partners.9 These attitudes now seem antiquated ...
Página xiv
... characters come in all varieties , good , bad , and indifferent , regardless of skin color . Among the black and mulatto men , we meet William , who is noble and good - hearted ; Sam , who is pretentious ; and Aaron , who is easily ...
... characters come in all varieties , good , bad , and indifferent , regardless of skin color . Among the black and mulatto men , we meet William , who is noble and good - hearted ; Sam , who is pretentious ; and Aaron , who is easily ...
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V | 1 |
VI | 11 |
VII | 20 |
VIII | 25 |
IX | 28 |
X | 33 |
XI | 47 |
XII | 53 |
XXII | 100 |
XXIII | 103 |
XXIV | 110 |
XXV | 124 |
XXVI | 129 |
XXVII | 136 |
XXVIII | 147 |
XXIX | 153 |
XIII | 58 |
XIV | 60 |
XV | 68 |
XVI | 72 |
XVII | 79 |
XVIII | 87 |
XX | 91 |
XXI | 94 |
XXX | 158 |
XXXI | 165 |
XXXII | 174 |
XXXIII | 178 |
XXXIV | 187 |
XXXV | 189 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todo
Clotel, Or, The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the ... William Wells Brown Vista de fragmentos - 1989 |
Clotel; Or, the President's Daughter William Wells Brown No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 2019 |
Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 64 - Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners...
Página 178 - Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, "Tis woman's whole existence; man may range The court, camp, church, the vessel, and the mart; Sword, gown, gain, glory, offer in exchange Pride, fame, ambition, to fill up his heart, And few there are whom these cannot estrange; Men have all these resources, we but one, To love again, and be again undone.
Página 64 - Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth : and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
Página 131 - ... pure religion and undefiled before God, even the Father, is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.
Página 66 - Therefore thus saith the Lord ; Ye have not hearkened unto me, in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and every man to his neighbour: behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, saith the Lord, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.
Página 1 - A slave is one who is in the power of a master to whom he belongs. The master may sell him, dispose of his person, his industry and his labor. He can do nothing, possess nothing, nor acquire anything but what must belong to his master.
Página 124 - Who can. with patience, for a moment see The medley mass of pride and misery, Of whips and charters, manacles and rights, Of slaving blacks and democratic whites. And all the piebald polity that reigns In free confusion o'er Columbia's plains?
Página 64 - And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.