| Emmanuel Appadocca; Or, Blighted Life: A Tale of the Boucaneers Contributor(s): Philip, Maxwell (Author), Cudjoe, Selwyn Reginald (Other), Cain, William E. (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 1558490760 ISBN-13: 9781558490765 Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press OUR PRICE: $26.68 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 1997 Annotation: The first Caribbean novel, an extraordinary tale of adventure and revenge on the high seas. "A true page-turner.... It captures the cold fury raging against racism, class oppression, and slavery behind the calm exterior of a European-trained, mixed-race intellectual of the early nineteenth century". -- William D. Piersen |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 96-47786 |
| Physical Information: 0.99" H x 6.02" W x 9.01" (1.13 lbs) 336 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Caribbean & West Indies |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
