Sab and Autobiography

by Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda and Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda y Arteaga

Book Overview

Eleven years before Uncle Tom's Cabin fanned the fires of abolition in North America, an aristocratic Cuban woman told an impassioned story of the fatal love of a mulatto slave for his white owner's daughter. So controversial was Sab's theme of miscegenation and its parallel between the powerlessness and enslavement of blacks and the economic and matrimonial subservience of women that the book was not published in Cuba until 1914,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292704429
• ISBN13: 9780292704428
• Release Date: March 1993
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 185 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Romantic vision of Cuba

This novel is a great example of romantic literature from Cuba in the 1840's. It was written before Uncle Tom's Cabin but still shows the situation of slaves and the need for reform. A must read for people interested in slavery or early female writers. The romantic movement in literature is very strong in this book but still provides a great historical viewpoint.