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176 ratings, 3.68 average rating, 21 reviews
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published
January 3rd 1994
by Ballantine Books
binding
Paperback, 256 pages
isbn
0345384202
(isbn13: 9780345384201)
description
"Stunning...Maryse Conde's imaginative subversion of historical records forms a critque of contemporary American society and its ingrained racism...more
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Read it in college. I remember liking it quite a bit as an alternate point of view to the Crucible story.
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Read in April, 2008
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teacherrecommends it for: teachers, friends, family.
if anything, this book was intense. i liked it, above all, but there were some very descriptive parts where not very pleasent things were going on, but i stuck through it and loved it all in the end.
basically, what happens is this: tituba somehow gets sold or bought into slavery and has to move to Salem, Mass. everyone knows about her healing powers, that she refuses to use for evil even though poeple tell her to, and she gets convicted of being a witch. even her own husband turns on her so he...more
basically, what happens is this: tituba somehow gets sold or bought into slavery and has to move to Salem, Mass. everyone knows about her healing powers, that she refuses to use for evil even though poeple tell her to, and she gets convicted of being a witch. even her own husband turns on her so he...more
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Read in August, 2008
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Katsuri Rayrecommends it for: black women with this story in their DNA, other people too.
still digesting as i just finished it, but mostly, a well rendered vociferous answer to those historians (and that is most of them, beginning with the contemporary record-keepers) who would leave Tituba as a foot-note and/or scape goat in the story of the Salem witch trials.
there is this romanticization of white feminism going on in this book that i don't really dig, but is tempered by a strong ribbon of respect and reverence for black female wisdom that runs throughout the book.
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there is this romanticization of white feminism going on in this book that i don't really dig, but is tempered by a strong ribbon of respect and reverence for black female wisdom that runs throughout the book.
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Read in August, 2008
This is a wonderful book to read if you have already read The Crucible or even The Scarlet Letter . It explores 17th century Puritan colonial society and the issue of the Salem witch hunts from a different point of view: that of the salve Tituba. Conde did excellent historical research and even quotes directly from the records of the trials found in the Salem court house. Ultimately this novel makes the reader examen the flaws of historical point of view and prejudice. The Sa...more
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This book was a trip! First things first: it was hard for me to imagine "lovin'" so good that it would make me following a man into slavery. (smile!) Beyond that, the story was interesting to me because it was a perspective that I had not yet heard -- the West Indian perspective on slavery, post slavery and all in-between. The spiritual aspects of this story are intoxicating...
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Read in January, 2007
A very interesting book, Tituba journeys from her island (Grenada or Trinidad? I can't remember) to Salem, Mass. and back during slavery and witch hunt times. There certainly is a lot of explicit description, but that is because of the feminist cause from which the author was going for. I liked it,but some of it was too much for me.
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Interesting read if you have read "The Crucible," as it tells the fictional adventures of Tituba and how she ended up where she did. A bit feminist and meant more to make a point rather than add to history, because it is very much fictional.
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This was another Lit. by Women text. I found it very interesting and did a character analysis of Tituba for a paper. I enjoyed reading the accounts of the witch trials from a different point of view.
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Read in January, 2006
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This is about the Salem witch trails told from the point of view of a black woman. An interesting tale of how a community can overreact to something that they don't quite understand.
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Brilliant and important novel about the evens of the Salem witch trials from the perspective of Tituba. Really intersting stuff.
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I was expecting a little more of a realistic book based on facts. A little disappointed in this book, to be honest.
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Read in April, 2005
It's been quite a while since I read this book, but it was a fabulous read! It's one that I would love to re-read.
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Read in January, 1997
This book made me love magic realism, and how it can help a novelist say some really important things about history.
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Read in January, 2001
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Post colonial
The point of view of a Tituba is examined in this book about the Salem Witch Trials. A fast and interesting read.
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A re-telling of the Salem Witch Trials from the point of view of a slave-voodoo priestess from Barbados.
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Read in January, 1996
Back in the days that I could read French. About a slave who gets caught up in the Salem witch trials.
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Just got this on Saturday, and am looking forward to reading it. Review when finished. :)
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Definitely not Arthur Miller's "The Crucible," and I mean that in a good way.
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Read in July, 2007
recommends it for:
everyone
beautiful, deeply feminine (feminist without being misandrist), painful, true.
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