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The hybrid terrain of literary imagination: Maryse Conde's Black Witch of Salem, Nathaniel Hawthorne's Hester Prynne, and Aime Cesaire's heroic poetic voice. (Third World Women's Inscriptions)

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From: College Literature
Date: 19950201
Author:Dukats, Mara L.

Maryse Conde's novel 'I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem' dramatizes the life of Tituba, the black slave who was charged with bewitching the young women of Salem, MA. By giving voice to the silent witness of one of the most reprehensible chapters of US history, Conde follows the feminist tradition of writing voiceless women back into existence. In doing so, Conde pays tribute to the influence of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Aime Cesaire.

Literature is not only fragmented, it is henceforth shared. In it lie histories and the voice of peoples. (Edouard Glissant, Caribbean Discourse)

"Women have ...

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