A reading of: I, TITUBA: THE BLACK WITCH OF SALEM, by Maryse Condé Book review

/"A Reading of:/" is a series in which I offer a more focused reading of a novel (or part of a novel) rather than a general book review. In this video I look at the novel I, Tituba and analyze how it revises the story of Tituba and Salem Witch Trails, how the novel functions as a parody of itself, and how Tituba's witchcraft is presented.

(Selected) Bibliography and further reading

Dukats, Mara L., “The Hybrid Terrain of the Literary Imagination: Maryse Condé's Black Witch of Salem, Nathaniel Hawthorne's Hester Prynne, and the Heroic Poetic Voice of Aimé Césaire,” College Literature 22.1 (1995): 51- 61.
Marouan, Maha. Witches, Goddesses, and Angry Spirits: The Politics of Spiritual Liberation in African Diaspora Women's Fiction. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2020.
Moss, Jane, /"Postmodernizing the Salem Witch Craze: Maryse Condé's Me, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem," Colby Quarterly 35.1 (1999): 5-13.
Ortega, Gema, “The Art of Hybridity: Maryse Condé’s Tituba,” The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association 47.2 (2014): 113-136.
Simek, Nicole. Eat well, read well: Maryse Condé and the ethics of interpretation. New York: Rudopi, 2008.
Smith, Michelle, “Reading in Circles: Sexuality and/or History in I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem,” Callaloo 18.3 (1995): 602-607.

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