Anna Seghers, Karibische Geschichten [Caribbean Stories]

Marike Janzen (University of Kansas)

Ed. by Gerhard P. Knapp, University of Utah
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.4.1: German-language Writing and Culture: Germany, 500-present.
Vol. editors: Gerhard P. Knapp (University of Utah), Jennifer Marston William (Purdue University), Herbert Rowland (Purdue University), Jill E. Twark (East Carolina University)

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First circulation or publication 1949 - 1962

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Germany (Country of Origin)

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Anna Seghers’

Karibische Geschichten

[

Caribbean Stories

, 1949] comprise three historical novellas about slave uprisings in the Caribbean during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries: “Die Hochzeit von Haiti” [“The Wedding in Haiti”], “Wiedereinführung der Sklaverei in Guadeloupe” [“Reinstatement of Slavery in Guadeloupe”] and “Das Licht auf dem Galgen” [“The Light on the Gallows”]. Written in the 1940s and 1950s, the stories offer a chronological picture of the relationship between the French Revolution and struggles over slavery in the Caribbean. Seghers draws on historical figures and events in Haiti, Guadeloupe, and Jamaica in order to trace the effects of a movement from official French support of abolition in the 1790s, to the brutal…

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Citation: Janzen, Marike. "Karibische Geschichten". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 20 January 2007 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=21603, accessed 21 November 2024.]

Anna Seghers, Karibische Geschichten [Caribbean Stories]

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