Yo, Tituba, la bruja negra de Salem

by Maryse Condé, Martha Asunción Alonso (Translator)

Overview

Maryse Condé adopta la voz de la mística Tituba, la esclava negra que fue juzgada en los famosos procesos por brujería que tuvieron lugar en la ciudad de Salem a finales del siglo XVII. Producto de una violación a bordo de un barco negrero, Tituba fue iniciada en las artes mágicas por una curandera de la isla de Barbados. Incapaz de sustraerse a la influencia de los hombres de baja moral, será vendida a un pastor obsesionado por Satán y acabará recalando en la pequeña comunidad puritana de Salem, en Massachussets. Allí será juzgada y encarcelada, acusada de haber embrujado a las hijas de su amo. Maryse Condé la rehabilita, la arranca del olvido al que había sido condenada y, finalmente, la devuelve a su país natal en la época de los negros cimarrones y las primeras revueltas de esclavos.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788418668272
Publisher:	Impedimenta
Publication date:	01/17/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	395
Sales rank:	770,552
File size:	793 KB
Language:	Spanish

About the Author

Maryse Condé is the Grande Dame of Caribbean Literature. She was born in Guadeloupe in 1934 as the youngest of eight siblings. She taught Francophone Literature at Colombia Universityin New York, and lived there for many years. She has also lived in various West African countries, most notably in Mali, where she gained inspiration for her worldwide bestseller Segu, for which she was awarded the African Literature Prize and several other respected French awards. Condé was awarded the 2018 New Academy Prize (or "Alternative Nobel") in Literature as well as the 2021 Prix mondial Cino Del Duca for her oeuvre. She also received the Grand-Croix de l'Ordre national du Mérite from President Emmanuel Macron in 2020. She conquered the hearts of many readers in English-language territories with her novels The Wondrous and Tragic Life of Ivan and Ivana and Waiting for the Waters to Rise, longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Translated Literature in the US.