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Sab: By Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda
Contributor(s): Davies, Catherine (Author)
ISBN: 071905706X     ISBN-13: 9780719057069
Publisher: Manchester University Press
OUR PRICE:   $15.15  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: May 2001
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Annotation: This story of a slave's unrequited love for the woman who possessed him is set in 19th-century colonial Cuba. It is the only known feminist and abolitionist novel published during the 19th century in Spain or its colonies. "Sab" is a pioneer novel in that it is not merely concerned with improving the treatment of slaves or putting an end to the trade in Africa; it is an impassioned declaration of human rights. This new annotated critical edition provides the original Spanish text, an authoritative English introduction, maps and tables which relate to 19th-century Cuba, and a vocabulary list.

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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Classics
Dewey: 863.5
LCCN: 2001030103
Series: Hispanic Texts
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5" W x 7.7" (0.50 lbs) 224 pages
 
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This tale of a slave's unrequited love for the woman who owns him is set in nineteenth-century colonial Cuba and was the only feminist-abolitionist novel published during the century in Spain or its colonies. This unique text raises important issues concerning power, race, gender and class in
colonial societies, colonial and post-colonial subjectivity and identities, feminist appropriations of the abolitionist agenda, human rights discourse, and literary and philosophical issues associated with enlightenment thought. This new annotated critical edition is the first to provide the
original Spanish text along with a substantial and authoritative introduction in English, as well as maps and tables relating to nineteenth-century Cuba, a vocabulary list, and suggestions for further reading.