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Stella

Stella

Bergeaud, Emeric
Hossman, Adriana Umana
Duno-Gottberg, Luis

Hardcover

Caribbean HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1558765948
ISBN13: 9781558765948
Publisher: Markus Wiener Publishers
Published: Jul 8 2014
Pages: 232
Weight: 1.13
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Emeric Bergeaud's Stella (1859), the first Haitian novel ever published, combines descriptions of moving scenes with factual accounts of the thirteen years of the Haitian revolution (1791-1804). Stella is an epic saga: the novel's chapter headings refer to major events in Haiti's history, and the major historical figures -- Toussaint, Pétion, Christophe, Sonthonax, and Leclerc, among many others -- are present. Stella is therefore also an important document of Caribbean history. Written while the author was exiled to St. Thomas, due to his alleged participation in an attempt to assassinate the black emperor Faustin I (Soulouque), the work can be read as the first foundational novel of Haiti. It is a mythical retelling of the establishment of the Haitian nation. This narrative presents not only the birth, through revolution, of Haiti as an independent nation but also the strife between political factions in Bergeaud's contemporary Haiti, including that between blacks and mulattoes in the struggle to control Haiti. Stella vividly introduces readers to the tale of revolt and revolution that eventually led to the creation of a free black nation.

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