{"id":10114,"date":"2010-11-16T06:39:15","date_gmt":"2010-11-16T06:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=10114"},"modified":"2011-11-14T02:22:33","modified_gmt":"2011-11-14T02:22:33","slug":"seeds-of-rebellion-in-plantation-fiction-victor-sejours-%e2%80%9cthe-mulatto%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=10114","title":{"rendered":"Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor S\u00e9jour’s \u201cThe Mulatto\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor S\u00e9jour’s \u201cThe Mulatto\u201d<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Southern Spaces
\n<\/a>An interdisciplinary journal about regions, places, and cultures of the American South and their global connections
\n2007-08-28<\/p>\n

Ed Piacentino<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of English
\nHigh Point University, High Point, North Carolina<\/em><\/p>\n

This essay examines Victor S\u00e9jour’s<\/a> \u201cThe Mulatto<\/a>\u201d (1837), a short story acknowledged as the first fictional work by an African American. Through its representation of physical and psychological effects, S\u00e9jour’s story, a narrative of slavery in Saint-Domingue<\/a>, also inaugurated the literary delineation of slavery’s submission-rebellion binary. The enslaved raconteur in \u201cThe Mulatto\u201d voices protest and appeals to social consciousness and sympathy, anticipating the embedded narrators in works of later writers throughout the Plantation Americas.<\/p>\n

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