Emmanuel Appadocca; Or, Blighted Life: A Tale of the Boucaneers (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781558490765)

This 1854 novel traces 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 Appodacca sails the seas with a band of ruthless pirates on a ship named the Black Schooner. The novel, written by the important activist and intellectual Michel Maxwell Philip (1829-1888) deals with themes, symbols, and literary techniques that are reminiscent of other major authors such as Melville, Douglass, and Stowe. 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.

Author: Maxwell Philip
ISBN-10: 1558490760
ISBN-13: 9781558490765
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Language: English
Published: 08/28/1997
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.13lbs
Size: 9.01h x 6.02w x 0.99d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/07/1997 pg. 51
Kirkus Reviews 06/15/1997 pg. 910
Library Journal 08/01/1997 pg. 142