Abstract

SANTOS GARCIA, Emiro. I, TITUBA, THE BLACK WITCH OF SALEM: VERSIONS AND PER-VERSIONS OF HISTORICAL DISCOURSE IN MARYSE CONDÉ'S NOVEL. Lit. teor. hist. crit. [online]. 2012, vol.14, n.2, pp.127-151. ISSN 0123-5931.

This article proposes a reading of the novel I, Tituba, the black witch of Salem (1986), by the Guadaloupean author Maryse Condé, taking as a starting point some intersections of race, gender and social class that have been ignored as much by the traditional anthropologies as by the "negrista" and "criollista" postcolonial projects. Distancing herself from the conventions of the traditional historical novel and the so-called "new historical novel", Condé's novel constructs a literary discourse based on the interior vision of the female individual as an agent of change of the colonial order and patriarchal historical reason.

Keywords : historical novel; historical imagination; racial individuals; black feminism; heroism; resistance.

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