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大島商船高等専門学校紀要 Volume 47
published_at 2014-12

Resurrection of the Hybridi Witches : Textual Hybridity in Sally Hemings and I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem as Historical Novels

Resurrection of the Hybridi Witches : Textual Hybridity in Sally Hemings and I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem as Historical Novels
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This paper compares two historical novels, Sally Hemings by Barbara Chase-Riboud and I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem by Maryse Condé. I recognized a similarity between these two novels by female novelists, Chase-Riboud and Condé: they resurrected enslaved black women who had been expunged from American history. This similarity is worth exploring in the sense that both novelists took up two marginalized black women, who nonetheless have an important place in American history. Sally Hemings may have inspires Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States and one of its most revered national
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Sally Hemings
Tituba
hibridity
racial consciousness
the Salem Witch trials