by Maryse Condé · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788476693995
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«Yo, Tituba, la bruja negra de Salem» is the historical novel by Maryse Condé, published by El Aleph Editores in paperback (224 pages, in Spanish).
The work gives voice to Tituba, a Caribbean slave initiated in the healing arts in Barbados who ends up involved in the Salem witch trials at the end of the 17th century. Daughter of a slave raped on a slave ship, she is dragged by men of dubious morals to the Puritan community of Massachusetts, where she is accused of bewitching the village girls. Condé rescues this historical figure from oblivion and vindicates her through cultural mixing, racial and gender oppression, and the resistance of slaves.
The original title is Moi, Tituba, sorcière noire de Salem, published in 1986. This Spanish edition by El Aleph Editores, dated 1999, belongs to the Modernos y Clásicos collection. The novel won the Grand Prix Littéraire de la Femme in 1986.
For readers interested in historical fiction with a feminist and postcolonial perspective, as well as Caribbean literature written by women.
Maryse Condé was a French novelist, critic, and playwright from the French Overseas department and region of Guadeloupe. She was also an academic, whose teaching career took her to West Africa and North America, as well as the Caribbean and Europe. As a writer, Condé is best known for her novel Ségou (1984–1985).
