Sab and Autobiography

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, seventy-three years after its original 1841 publication in Spain.

Also included in the volume is Avellaneda's Autobiography (1839), whose portrait of an intelligent, flamboyant woman struggling against the restrictions of her era amplifies the novel's exploration of the patriarchal oppression of minorities and women.

List of contents

• Preface
• Introduction
• Autobiography of Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda
• Sab
• Notes
• Works Cited

About the author

By Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda y Arteaga

Product details

• Authors: Gertrudis Gómez d Avellaneda y Arteaga, Gertrudis Gomez De Avellaneda Y Arteaga, Gertrudis Gómez d Avellaneda Y. Arteaga
• Assisted by: Nina M. Scott (Translation)
• Publisher: University Of Texas Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.1993
• EAN: 9780292704428
• ISBN: 978-0-292-70442-8
• No. of pages: 186
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 10 mm
• Weight: 279 g
• Series: Classicos/Clasicos; Texas Pan American Series; Texas Pan American
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies