Books by Maryse Condé
I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem
by Maryse Condé
🏆 Winner of the 1986 Grand Prix Litteraire de la Femme
“Some readers—especially New Englanders—will know Tituba from The Crucible. Tituba was a Bajan figure, an enslaved woman who appears in dotted lines in the archive of the Salem witch trials, as a vector of unreason or irrationalism, of Voodoo practices or alternative medicine. This is a beautiful historical novel that takes up archival gaps, the spaces between what we can and can’t know about historical figures, particularly those that weren’t from white wealthy families. She does a kind of imaginative reanimation of the figure of Tituba and explores deeply the power that this figure held.” Read more...
The Best Postcolonial Literature
Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb, Literary Scholar
Interviews where books by Maryse Condé were recommended
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The Witches: Salem, 1692
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A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience
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Witchcraft at Salem
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The Crucible
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I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem
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Records of the Salem Witch-Hunt
ed. Bernard Rosenthal
Books About the Salem Witch Trials
Books About the Salem Witch Trials
In 1692-3 in Salem Village, Massachusetts, a widespread moral panic resulted in nearly 200 residents being accused of practicing witchcraft. In the end, 20 of them were executed. Since then, the name Salem has been associated with paranoia, betrayal and religious extremism, and the Salem Witch Trials have served as the inspiration for many books, both fiction and nonfiction.
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Notebook of a Return to the Native Land
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A Dying Colonialism
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I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem
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Maps: A Novel
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Can the Subaltern Speak?: Reflections on the History of an Idea
ed. Rosalind Morris, original essay by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
The Best Postcolonial Literature, recommended by Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb
The Best Postcolonial Literature, recommended by Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb
Postcolonial literature brings together writings from formerly colonised territories, allowing commonalities across disparate cultures to be identified and examined. Here, the University of Toronto academic Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb recommends five key works that explore philosophical and political questions through allegory, personal reflection and powerful polemic.
