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Secret History; Or, the Horrors of St. Domingo and Laura

Secret History; Or, the Horrors of St. Domingo and Laura

Sansay, Leonora
Drexler, Michael

Paperback

Series: Broadview Editions

Literary Fiction

ISBN10: 1551113465
ISBN13: 9781551113463
Publisher: Broadview Press Inc
Published: Jun 11 2007
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Based on Leonora Sansay's eyewitness accounts of the final days of French rule in Saint Domingue (Haiti),

Secret History is a vivid account of race warfare and domestic violence. Sansay's writing provocatively draws comparisons between Saint Domingue during the Haitian Revolution and the post revolutionary United States, while fluidly combining qualities of the eighteenth-century epistolary novel, colonial travel writing, and political analysis. Laura, Sansay's second novel, features as its protagonist a beautiful impoverished orphan who throws herself headlong into a secret marriage with a young medical student. When her husband dies in a duel in an effort to protect his wife's reputation, Laura finds herself once more alone in the world. The republication of these works will contribute to a significant revision of thinking about early American literary history.

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