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Emmanuel Appadocca or, Blighted Life: Tale of the Boucaneers - Softcover

Philip, Maxwell

 
9781558490765: Emmanuel Appadocca or, Blighted Life: Tale of the Boucaneers
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1558490760 ISBN 13: 9781558490765
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press, 1997

Synopsis

This 1854 novel traces a mulatto son's quest for vengeance against his white father, a sugar planter who abandoned him and his mother. Intent on redeeming his mother's honor and outraged by the cruelty and greed that slavery has engendered Appodacca sails the seas with a band of ruthless pirates on a ship named the Black Schooner. The novel, written by the important activist and intellectual Michel Maxwell Philip (1829-1888) deals with themes, symbols, and literary techniques that are reminiscent of other major authors such as Melville, Douglass, and Stowe. This new edition with scholarly commentaries and annotations will reorient our understanding of the development of Caribbean literature in relation to English and American literary production.

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Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Publication date
1997
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1558490760
ISBN 13 
9781558490765
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
275