Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"

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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Main Author: Ed Piacentino
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Emory Center for Digital Scholarship 2007-08-01
Series:Southern Spaces
Subjects:
African American Studies
Global South
Literary Criticism
Slavery
African American Art
Online Access:https://southernspaces.org/node/42389
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spelling doaj-a21f8159c4b446169f4354e60cb480c92020-11-24T20:44:49ZengEmory Center for Digital ScholarshipSouthern Spaces1551-27542007-08-0110.18737/M7359MSeeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"Ed Piacentino0High Point UniversityThis 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 the literary delineation of slavery's submission-rebellion binary. The enslaved raconteur in "The Mulatto" voices protest and appeals to social consciousness and sympathy, anticipating the embedded narrators in works of later writers throughout the Plantation Americas.https://southernspaces.org/node/42389African American StudiesGlobal SouthLiterary CriticismSlaveryAfrican American Art
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Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
Southern Spaces
African American Studies
Global South
Literary Criticism
Slavery
African American Art
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title Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
title_short Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
title_full Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
title_fullStr Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
title_full_unstemmed Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
title_sort seeds of rebellion in plantation fiction: victor séjour's "the mulatto"
publisher Emory Center for Digital Scholarship
series Southern Spaces
issn 1551-2754
publishDate 2007-08-01
description 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 the literary delineation of slavery's submission-rebellion binary. The enslaved raconteur in "The Mulatto" voices protest and appeals to social consciousness and sympathy, anticipating the embedded narrators in works of later writers throughout the Plantation Americas.
topic African American Studies
Global South
Literary Criticism
Slavery
African American Art
url https://southernspaces.org/node/42389
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