Transatlantic growth through slavery and freedom in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda's Sab

This article is meant to be a comparative analysis of the development of the main characters in relation to the dichotomy established between liberty and slavery as presented in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda’s Sab. The aim of this article is to identify...

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Autor: Miquel Baldellou, Marta
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2006
País:España
Institución:Universitat de Lleida (UdL)
Repositorio:Repositori Obert UdL
OAI Identifier:oai:repositori.udl.cat:10459.1/59834
Acceso en línea:https://doi.org/10.25115/odisea.v0i7.156
http://hdl.handle.net/10459.1/59834
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Transatlanticism
Coming of age
Antislavery and abolitionist discourses
Religion
Education
Social discourse
Sentimentality
Slavery and women’s situation
Transatlanticismo
Crecimiento
Discurso antiesclavista y abolicionista
Religión
Educación
Discurso social
Sentimentalismo
Esclavismo y situación de la mujer
Abolicionistes
Literatura comparada
Esclavitud
Descripción
Sumario:This article is meant to be a comparative analysis of the development of the main characters in relation to the dichotomy established between liberty and slavery as presented in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda’s Sab. The aim of this article is to identify the similarities and differences between both novels as regards their main characters (Tom/Sab), their social discourse (abolitionism/ antislavery) or their genre (social novel/romantic novel) so as to highlight the importance of the Cuban writer Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda as precursor of the antislavery novel, which eventually gave way to the abolitionist genre represented by Harriet Beecher Stowe’s seminal novel, published some years later.