The gift of Sab

From: Afro - Hispanic Review | Date: October 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

The extent to which Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda's novel Sab is an abolitionist text is debatable. In an incisive contribution to the on-going discussion Jerome Branche draws attention to what he considers to be a "remarkable blind spot" in feminist readings, namely the "black woman lurking in the shadows" (Sab's mother), and the overlooked significance of "transracial sexual transgression" (Branche 13,15). Branche argues that the novel was censored by the colonial authorities not because it put forward abolitionist views but on account of the insinuated incest motif (the love between ...

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