Research Catalog

Title

Emmanuel Appadocca, or, Blighted life : a tale of the boucaneers / Maxwell Philip ; edited with an afterword by Selwyn R. Cudjoe ; introduction and annotations by William E. Cain.

Author

Philip, Maxwell, 1829-1888.

Publication

Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 1997.

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Additional Authors

• Cudjoe, Selwyn R. (Selwyn Reginald)
• Cain, William E., 1952-

Description

lv, 275 pages : map; 24 cm

Summary

• Originally published in 1854, this remarkable novel tells the story of 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, Appadocca sails the seas with a band of ruthless pirates on a ship named the Black Schooner.
• The story is swiftly paced and packed with action, and the narrative is enriched and complicated by Appadocca's reflections on the nature and implications of racism, slavery, colonialism, and retribution. Written by Michel Maxwell Philip (1829-1888), one of the most important Caribbean intellectual-activists of the nineteenth century, Emmanuel Appadocca was published at a time in American history when the slavery crisis was intensifying and civil war loomed.
• 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. It shows that the beginnings of the Anglo-Caribbean novel lie half a century earlier than previously acknowledged.

Alternative Title

• Emmanuel Appadocca
• Blighted life

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Preface / Selwyn R. Cudjoe -- Introduction: Emmanuel Appadocca in Its American Context / William E. Cain -- Emmanuel Appadocca; or, Blighted Life: A Tale of the Boucaneers / Maxwell Philip -- Afterword: Emmanuel Appadocca, the First Anglo-Caribbean Novel / Selwyn R. Cudjoe.

ISBN

• 1558490752 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 1558490760 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

96047786

OCLC

• 35849075
• ocm35849075

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries