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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.
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Catherine Davies is Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies, University of Manchester
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Sab is an extraordinary work, the only Hispanic anti-slavery novel of sensibility and the work of a highly-regarded woman author. Dwelling on the emotions in post-Werther style, it tells us of the self-sacrificing passion of Sab for his owner's daughter, with whom he has been brought up. The sentiments are archetypally Romantic, the landscape descriptions evocative and the whole an extraordinary blend of sensibility, regionalism, feminism and emancipationism. The style is entirely conventional but the politics are not. The result is rather peculiar, a sort of superior political Mills & Boon. Beautifully introduced and annotated by Catherine Davies.
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19 Sep 2008
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This is an excellent novel. Easy to read. Getrudis Gomez de Avellaneda really did a good job writing this novel, that is basically a story about slavery and love. I started reading it and I did not let it go until I finished it. So, if you are really into reading, 2-3 hours are enough to read this interesting novel.
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