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The Sun of Jesús del Monte: A Cuban Antislavery Novel

David Luis-Brown

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Translated into English for the first time, Andr�s Avelino de Orihuela's El Sol de Jes�s del Monte is a landmark Cuban antislavery novel. Published originally in 1852, the same year as Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, it provides an uncompromising critique of discourses of white superiority and an endorsement of equality for free people of color. The Sun of Jes�s del Monte is the only Cuban novel of its time to focus on La Escalera, or the Ladder Rebellion, a major anticolonial and slave insurrection that shook the world's wealthiest colony in 1843-44. It is also the only Cuban novel of its time to take direct aim at white privilege and unsparingly denounce the oppression of free people of color that intensified after the insurrection. This new critical edition-featuring an invaluable, contextualizing introduction and afterword in addition to the new English translation-offers readers the most detailed portrait of the everyday lives and plight of free people of color in Cuba in any novel up to the 1850s.

Pages: 312

Format: Hardcover

Release: March 31, 2022

ISBN 13: 9780813946207

The Sun of Jesús del Monte: A Cuban Antislavery Novel

David Luis-Brown

0/5 ( ratings)

Translated into English for the first time, Andr�s Avelino de Orihuela's El Sol de Jes�s del Monte is a landmark Cuban antislavery novel. Published originally in 1852, the same year as Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, it provides an uncompromising critique of discourses of white superiority and an endorsement of equality for free people of color. The Sun of Jes�s del Monte is the only Cuban novel of its time to focus on La Escalera, or the Ladder Rebellion, a major anticolonial and slave insurrection that shook the world's wealthiest colony in 1843-44. It is also the only Cuban novel of its time to take direct aim at white privilege and unsparingly denounce the oppression of free people of color that intensified after the insurrection. This new critical edition-featuring an invaluable, contextualizing introduction and afterword in addition to the new English translation-offers readers the most detailed portrait of the everyday lives and plight of free people of color in Cuba in any novel up to the 1850s.

Pages: 312

Format: Hardcover

Release: March 31, 2022

ISBN 13: 9780813946207

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