Clotel, or the President's Daughter

ISBN-13: 9781563248030 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 208 str.

William Wells Brown; Joan E. Cashin

Opis

Originally published in 1853, "Clotel" is one of the first novels by an African American. In it, Brown treats the themes of gender, race and slavery in distinctive ways, highlighting the mutability of identity, as well as the absurdities and cruelties of slavery.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 The Negro Sale; Chapter 2 Going to the South; Chapter 3 The Negro Chase; Chapter 4 The Quadroon’s Home; Chapter 5 The Slave Market; Chapter 6 The Religious Teacher; Chapter 7 The Poor Whites, South; Chapter 8 The Separation; Chapter 9 The Man of Honour; Chapter 10 The Young Christian; Chapter 11 The Parson Poet; Chapter 12 A Night in the Parson’s Kitchen; Chapter 13 A Slave Hunting Parson; Chapter 14 A Free Woman Reduced to Slavery; Chapter 15 To-Day a Mistress, To-Morrow a Slave; Chapter 16 Death of the Parson; Chapter 17 Retaliation; Chapter 18 The Liberator; Chapter 19 Escape of Clotel; Chapter 20 A True Democrat; Chapter 21 The Christian’s Death; Chapter 22 A Ride in a Stage-Coach; Chapter 23 Truth Stranger than Fiction; Chapter 24 The Arrest; Chapter 25 Death is Freedom; Chapter 26 The Escape; Chapter 27 The Mystery; Chapter 28 The Happy Meeting; Chapter 29 Conclusion;

O autorze

Brown, William Wells; Cashin, Joan E.