Bug-Jargal - Couverture souple

Hugo, Victor

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1551114461 ISBN 13 : 9781551114460

Editeur : Broadview Press Ltd, 2004

Synopsis

Victor Hugo’s Bug-Jargal (1826) is one of the most important works of nineteenth-century colonial fiction, and quite possibly the most sustained novelistic treatment of the Haitian Revolution by a major European author. This Broadview edition makes Hugo’s novel available in a completely new English translation, the first in over one hundred years. Set in 1791, during the first months of a slave revolt that would eventually lead to the creation of the black republic of Haiti in 1804, Bug-Jargal is a stirring tale of interracial friendship and rivalry, a provocative account of the ties that bind a young Frenchman to one of the rebel leaders and the tragic misunderstandings that threaten to sever those ties completely.

This Broadview edition contains a critical introduction and a broad selection of appendices, including Hugo’s never-before-translated 1820 short story “Bug-Jargal,” contemporary reviews of the novel, documents pertaining to the young Hugo’s poetics and politics, and selections from his source materials about the Haitian Revolution.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Chris Bongie is a Professor of English at Queen's University, Kingston. He is the author of Exotic Memories: Literature, Colonialism, and the Fin de Siècle and Islands and Exiles: The Creole Identities of Post/Colonial Literature, both from Stanford University Press.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Broadview Press Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1551114461
• ISBN 13: 9781551114460
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 344
• Éditeur: Bongie Chris
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