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Sab and Autobiography
Eleven years before Uncle Tom's Cabin put a human face on the suffering of slaves and 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
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185 pages
Published
January 1st 1993
by University of Texas Press
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(Read this for THISP476 - Latin American Women Writers at University of Washington - Tacoma.)
A tragically romantic tale of the perils of forbidden love that exposes the treachery of slavery in Cuba during the mid-1800s. I found myself so sympathetic towards Sab and Teresa while also finding myself having a lot of contempt for Carlota. I can't wait to discuss this book in class. If you're so inclined, I definitely recommend Sab. It's a fairly short read and can be finished in an afternoon, if one ...more
A tragically romantic tale of the perils of forbidden love that exposes the treachery of slavery in Cuba during the mid-1800s. I found myself so sympathetic towards Sab and Teresa while also finding myself having a lot of contempt for Carlota. I can't wait to discuss this book in class. If you're so inclined, I definitely recommend Sab. It's a fairly short read and can be finished in an afternoon, if one ...more
Devoured this in a few hours at the NYPL's research library. What seems to be a typical 19th century romance novel imbued with abolitionist and feminist ideology that, in that time period, was shockingly radical.
An excellent, enthralling little novelita with important social and political subtext. I think for this book (perhaps as with any other book) it's important to understand the contemporary context
Ugh what a dry book. I really could not get into this book, and it was assigned as summer reading for my Latin American Literature class for my senior year of high school. I actually had the priviledge of talking to the translator on skype, and what she said was extremely interesting. As for the book itself, it probably ranks of some of my least favorite books I have ever read.
Wonderful book that takes place in the times of slavery in Cuba. Also notably written by a woman, which was not as frequent to find. Shows the many levels of family obligations, the walls that are put up in terms of expressing emotion, and interracial struggles. Definitely recommend!
Dry, tedious, and filled with unlikable characters with the same voice and penchant for melodrama. I also never would have believed that a book less than 150 pages could still be too long, but the story could have been told in half that, easily.
Liked this book better after reading a critical analysis of it. As for my initial thoughts? A bad copy of romanticism...a little over the top. Yet a radical book for it's time.
Goddamn hate the Romantics. Makes me want to hurt things.
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Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda y Arteaga
(pen name La Peregrina) came from a noble background; her father, Manuel Gomez de Avellaneda, was a descendent of the royal family of Navarre and aristocracy of Vizcaya of Spain, and also a commander of the Spanish navy in charge of the central regions of Cuba. Her mother, Francisca de Arteaga y Betancourt, was also from a wealthy Spanish family that had liv
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“Such are contrasts we see every day in the world. Joy and Sorrow! But Joy is an exile from Heaven who does not remain in any one place. Sorrow is a son of Hell who does not release his prey until he has torn it to pieces.”
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