Ennobling savagery? Sentimentalism and the subaltern in Sab From: Afro - Hispanic Review | Date: October 1, 1998| Author: Branche, Jerome | Copyright University of Missouri-Columbia Fall 1998. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

"Rock stone a' river bottom no know sun hot."

Jamaican Saying.

Notwithstanding what seemed obvious to a contemporary reading of Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda's first novel, Sab (1841)1 there is a preponderance of critical evaluations today, which with greater or lesser adamancy, proclaim it to be a discourse of liberation.2 Sab as liberation discourse is thereby read as a pioneering abolitionist novel,3 an early demonstration of modern feminism in literature,4 and an exemplary...

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