Bug-Jargal
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Bug-Jargal
（Broadview editions）
Broadview Press, c2004
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-344)
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Victor Hugo's Bug-Jargal (1826) is one of the most important works of nineteenth-century colonial fiction, and quite possibly the most sustained novelistic treatment of the Haitian Revolution by a major European author. This Broadview edition makes Hugo's novel available in a completely new English translation, the first in over one hundred years. Set in 1791, during the first months of a slave revolt that would eventually lead to the creation of the black republic of Haiti in 1804, Bug-Jargal is a stirring tale of interracial friendship and rivalry, a provocative account of the ties that bind a young Frenchman to one of the rebel leaders and the tragic misunderstandings that threaten to sever those ties completely.
This Broadview edition contains a critical introduction and a broad selection of appendices, including Hugo's never-before-translated 1820 short story "Bug-Jargal," contemporary reviews of the novel, documents pertaining to the young Hugo's poetics and politics, and selections from his source materials about the Haitian Revolution.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements Introduction Victor Hugo: A Brief Chronology A Note on the Text Bug-Jargal Appendix A: "Bug-Jargal" (1820) Appendix B: "The Saint Domingue Revolt" (1845) Appendix C: Politics and Poetics Review of Sir Walter Scott's Quentin Durward (1823) Preface to Nouvelles Odes (1824) Appendix D: Contemporary Reviews From Le Globe (Journal litteraire) (1826) From Le Drapeau blanc (1826) From Le Mercure du dix-neuvieme siecle (1826) From C.A. Chauvet, "Des romans de M. Victor Hugo," Revue encyclopedique (1831) From Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve, "Les Romans de Victor Hugo," Journal des debats (1832) Appendix E: Historical and Cultural Sources From Bryan Edwards, An Historical Survey of the French Colony in the Island of St. Domingo (1797) From Pamphile de Lacroix, Memoires pour servir a l'histoire de la Revolution de Saint-Domingue (1819) From Henri Gregoire, De la litterature des negres (1808) Appendix F: Literary Sources From Jean-Baptiste Picquenard, Adonis, ou Le bon negre (1798) From Jean-Baptiste Picquenard, Zoflora
- or, The Generous Negro Girl (1804) Appendix G: Map of Saint Domingue Works Cited
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