Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
This essay examines Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto" (1837), a short story acknowledged as the first fictional work by an African American. Through its representation of physical and psychological effects, Séjour's story, a narrative of slavery in Saint-Domingue, also inaugurated th...
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| Language: | English |
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Emory Center for Digital Scholarship
2007-08-01
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| Series: | Southern Spaces |
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| Online Access: | https://southernspaces.org/node/42389 |