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Stowe, H: Uncle Tom's Cabin

Stowe, H: Uncle Tom's Cabin


en Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 iul 2020

Găsim în paginile acestui volum o arhitectură narativă ce împletește destine multiple, construite prin perspective care se ramifică din inima suferinței și a speranței. Deși figura centrală rămâne unchiul Tom, structura operei permite cititorului să urmărească traiectorii paralele, precum fuga disperată a Elizei sau dilemele morale ale familiei Shelby. Această ediție Collins Classics nu se limitează la textul literar, ci oferă un aparat critic impresionant, incluzând prefețele originale din 1852 și documente istorice despre mișcarea aboliționistă, elemente care ancorează ficțiunea în realitatea brutală a vremii. Suntem de părere că forța cărții rezidă în capacitatea sa de a transforma discursul politic în emoție pură, folosind dragostea creștină ca antidot pentru dezumanizare. În tradiția scrierilor lui Harriet Beecher Stowe, cum este și American Woman's Home, acest roman continuă să exploreze valorile morale și structura socială americană, însă o face cu o virulență și o pasiune care au transformat-o într-un fenomen mondial. Față de alte lucrări ale epocii, Uncle Tom's Cabin se distinge prin refuzul autoarei de a se ascunde în spatele unui anonimat protectiv, abordând frontal teme precum rasa și naționalismul. Credem că ritmul narațiunii, deși marcat de sentimentalismul specific secolului al XIX-lea, păstrează o actualitate frapantă prin modul în care analizează relațiile de putere și demnitatea umană în fața opresiunii.

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ISBN-13: 9782491251529
ISBN-10: 2491251523
Pagini: 418
Dimensiuni: 132 x 198 x 35 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Editura: Les Prairies Numeriques

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte oricui dorește să înțeleagă rădăcinile profunde ale literaturii sociale americane. Cititorul câștigă nu doar o perspectivă istorică asupra sclaviei, ci și o lecție despre puterea cuvântului scris de a schimba cursul istoriei. Este o lectură fundamentală pentru cei care apreciază romanele care îmbină conștiința morală cu o poveste umană zguduitoare, fiind un document cultural esențial pentru înțelegerea drepturilor omului.

Despre autor

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896) a fost o scriitoare și aboliționistă americană de renume, provenind dintr-o familie cu puternice convingeri religioase. Cariera sa a fost marcată de publicarea a peste 30 de volume, însă Uncle Tom's Cabin rămâne lucrarea care a propulsat-o pe scena internațională, devenind o figură emblematică a luptei împotriva sclaviei. Spre deosebire de multe contemporane, Stowe și-a asumat public opiniile, indiferent de controversele generate. Opera sa reflectă o preocupare constantă pentru justiție socială și moralitate creștină, influențând decisiv opinia publică din Statele Unite și Marea Britanie în secolul al XIX-lea.

Notă biografică

Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe (1811 - 1896) was an American abolitionist and author. She came from the Beecher family, a famous religious family and is best known for her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), which depicts the harsh conditions for enslaved African Americans. The book reached millions as a novel and play and became influential in the United States and Great Britain, energizing anti-slavery forces in the American North, while provoking widespread anger in the South. Stowe wrote 30 books, including novels, three travel memoirs and collections of articles and letters. She was influential for both her writings and her public stances on social issues of the day. In 1832, at the age of 21, Harriet Beecher moved to Cincinnati. There, she also joined the Semi-Colon Club, a literary salon and social club whose members included the Beecher sisters, Caroline Lee Hentz, Salmon P. Chase (future governor of the state and Secretary of Treasury under President Lincoln), Emily Blackwell and others. Cincinnati's trade and shipping business on the Ohio River was booming, drawing numerous migrants from different parts of the country, including many free blacks, as well as Irish immigrants who worked on the state's canals and railroads. Areas of the city had been wrecked in the Cincinnati riots of 1829, when ethnic Irish attacked blacks, trying to push competitors out of the city. Beecher met a number of African Americans who had suffered in those attacks and their experience contributed to her later writing about slavery. It was in the literary club that she met Calvin Ellis Stowe, a widower who was a professor at the seminary. The two married on January 6, 1836. He was an ardent critic of slavery and the Stowes supported the Underground Railroad, temporarily housing several fugitive slaves in their home. Most slaves continued north to secure freedom in Canada. The Stowes had seven children together, including twin daughters. n 1850, Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Law, prohibiting assistance to fugitives and strengthening sanctions even in free states. At the time, Stowe had moved with her family to Brunswick, Maine, where her husband was now teaching at Bowdoin College. Shortly after in June, 1851, when she was 40, the first installment of her Uncle Tom's Cabin was published in serial form in the newspaper The National Era. She originally used the subtitle "The Man That Was A Thing", but it was soon changed to "Life Among the Lowly". Installments were published weekly from June 5, 1851, to April 1, 1852. For the newspaper serialization of her novel, Stowe was paid $400. Uncle Tom's Cabin was published in book form on March 20, 1852, by John P. Jewett with an initial print run of 5,000 copies. In less than a year, the book sold an unprecedented 300,000 copies. By December, as sales began to wane, Jewett issued an inexpensive edition at 37¿ cents each to stimulate sales. According to Daniel R. Lincoln, the goal of the book was to educate northerners on the realistic horrors of the things that were happening in the south. The other purpose was to try to make people in the south feel more empathetic towards the people they were forcing into slavery.

Descriere scurtă

Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War," according to Will Kaufman.
Stowe, a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Seminary and an active abolitionist, featured the character of Uncle Tom, a long-suffering black slave around whom the stories of other characters revolve. The sentimental novel depicts the reality of slavery while also asserting that Christian love can overcome something as destructive as enslavement of fellow human beings.
Uncle Tom's Cabin was the best-selling novel of the 19th century and the second best-selling book of that century, following the Bible. It is credited with helping fuel the abolitionist cause in the 1850s. In the first year after it was published, 300,000 copies of the book were sold in the United States; one million copies in Great Britain. In 1855, three years after it was published, it was called "the most popular novel of our day."
The impact attributed to the book is great, reinforced by a story that when Abraham Lincoln met Stowe at the start of the Civil War, Lincoln declared, "So this is the little lady who started this great war." The quote is apocryphal; it did not appear in print until 1896, and it has been argued that "The long-term durability of Lincoln's greeting as an anecdote in literary studies and Stowe scholarship can perhaps be explained in part by the desire among many contemporary intellectuals ... to affirm the role of literature as an agent of social change."
The book and the plays it inspired helped popularize a number of stereotypes about black people. These include the affectionate, dark-skinned "mammy"; the "pickaninny" stereotype of black children; and the "Uncle Tom," or dutiful, long-suffering servant faithful to his white master or mistress. In recent years, the negative associations with Uncle Tom's Cabin have, to an extent, overshadowed the historical impact of the book as a "vital antislavery tool."
- Source: Wikipedia