Mar 29, 2024  
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FREN 291 - Maryse Conde: I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem

1.5 Credit Hours
I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem is Condé’s invention of a life story for the historical figure Tituba, the mixed-race daughter of a slave raped by an English sailor, who was the first of the formally accused witches in the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692. Condé uses legal and historical records as the basis of her fictional story, with an insistence on the symmetry between historical writing and the writing of fiction. Condé depicts in meticulous detail historical truths about Puritanism and seventeenth-century New England to evoke the drama and hysteria that ensue when the English Puritans’ beliefs collide with the religious practices of people from Africa and the Caribbean. Condé’s play, “In the Time of Revolution,” shows the impact of decisions made in Paris in the disorder following the Revolution of 1789, prior to the establishment of the Third Republic, on the people of Guadeloupe. The two literary pieces bear witness to the experiences of people whose stories are not recorded and evoke neither fiction nor history, but human truth. 
 

This course will satisfy the core area requirement in literature, in combination with another LT short course.

This course will satisfy the core requirement in multicultural studies, in combination with another short MC course.



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