Isbn: 9781558490765 - emmanuel appadocca; or, blighted life: a tale of the boucaneers (3 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 336 pages. 9.50x6.00x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New. Appadocca is intent on wreaking revenge on his father for abandoning him and his mother. Through his anger, he sails the seas with a band of pirates on a ship named the Black Schooner . The text is enriched with Appadocca s reflections on nature, racism..

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This 1854 novel traces a mulatto son's quest for vengeance against his white father, a sugar planter who abandoned him and his mother. Intent on redeeming his mother's honor and outraged by the cruelty and greed that slavery has engendered Appodacca sails the seas with a band of ruthless pirates on a ship named the Black Schooner. The novel, written by the important activist and intellectual Michel Maxwell Philip (1829-1888) deals with themes, symbols, and literary techniques that are reminiscent of other major authors such as Melville, Douglass, and Stowe. This new edition with scholarly commentaries and annotations will reorient our understanding of the development of Caribbean literature in relation to English and American literary production.…