Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Founding Fictions of the Dutch Caribbean: Carel de Haseth's Slave and Master (Katibu Di Shon) - A Dual-Language Edition - Translated and with an Intro

Founding Fictions of the Dutch Caribbean: Carel de Haseth's Slave and Master (Katibu Di Shon) - A Dual-Language Edition - Translated and with an Intro

Rojer, Olga E.
Aimone, Joseph O.
Zamora, Maria C.

Paperback

Series: Postcolonial Studies, Book 17

General Fiction

Currently unavailable to order

ISBN10: 1433116057
ISBN13: 9781433116056
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Published: Aug 17 2011
Pages: 70
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.25 Width: 5.76 Depth: 8.67
Language: English
Carel de Haseth's novella Slave and Master (Katibu di Shon), written in the Creole language Papiamentu, dramatizes the August 17, 1795 slave revolt on the Dutch Caribbean island of Curaçao. The story is told through an alternating series of dramatic monologues by two key characters: Luis, a slave, and a leader of the revolt; and Shon Welmu, his childhood friend and white heir to the slave plantation. The exposition begins shortly after the revolt has been crushed, as Luis awaits his brutal execution, and it ends with his preemptive suicide. The theme is the acceptance of the inevitablity of emancipation.

Also in

General Fiction

View All