A dugout canoe comes ashore on the island of Saint-Barth???lemy in the Antilles; in it are a black man, Ars???ne, and a sleeping white child, Sarah. Seeking refuge, they are taken in by a good man, but the overseer of his plantation threatens both Ars???ne and Sarah with the loss of their freedom. Deborah Jenson and Doris Kadish introduce Sarah , an 1821 novella by Desbordes-Valmore, explaining its autobiographical background, political context (the revolt of blacks against Napol???on's soldiers), and literary genre ...
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A dugout canoe comes ashore on the island of Saint-Barth???lemy in the Antilles; in it are a black man, Ars???ne, and a sleeping white child, Sarah. Seeking refuge, they are taken in by a good man, but the overseer of his plantation threatens both Ars???ne and Sarah with the loss of their freedom. Deborah Jenson and Doris Kadish introduce Sarah , an 1821 novella by Desbordes-Valmore, explaining its autobiographical background, political context (the revolt of blacks against Napol???on's soldiers), and literary genre (sentimentalism). The novella was a precursor to anticolonial and antislavery texts by Claire de Duras, Victor Hugo, George Sand, and Alphonse de Lamartine.
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