Sarah
Subtitle: the original French text
By: Marceline Desbordes-Valmore ; edited by Deborah Jenson and Doris Kadish.
Contributors: Jenson, Deborah.; Kadish, Doris Y.
Series: Texts and translations. Texts -- 22
Publisher: The Modern Language Association of America
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: fre
Number of pages: 94
ISBN-13: 9781603290265
Description: "A dugout canoe comes ashore on the island of Saint-Barthelemy in the Antilles; in it are a black man, Arsene, and a sleeping white child, Sarah. Seeking refuge, they are taken in by a good man, but the overseer of his plantation threatens both Arsene and Sarah with the loss of their freedom." "Deborah Jenson and Doris Y. Kadish introduce Sarah, an 1821 novella by Desbordes-Valmore, explaining its autobiographical background, political context (the revolt of blacks against Napoleon's soldiers), and literary genre (sentimentalism). The novella was a precursor to anticolonial and antislavery texts by Claire de Duras, Victor Hugo, George Sand, and Alphonse de Lamartine."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text in French, with introductory and critical matter in English.