Bug-jargal

by Hugo, Victor; Bongie, Chris

• ISBN13: 9781551114460
• ISBN10: 1551114461
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-06-30
• Publisher: Broadview Pr

Summary

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

Acknowledgments	7	(2)
Introduction	9	(40)
A Brief Chronology	49	(4)
Victor Hugo
A Note on the Text	53	(2)
Bug-Jargal	55	(158)
Appendix A: ``Bug-Jargal'' (1820)	213	(36)
Appendix B: ``The Saint Domingue Revolt'' (1845)	249	(6)
Appendix C: Politics and Poetics	255	(20)
Review of Sir Walter Scott's Quentin Durward (1823)	255	(9)
Preface to Nouvelles Odes (1824)	264	(11)
Appendix D: Contemporary Reviews	275	(16)
From Le Globe (Journal litteraire) (1826)	275	(4)
From Le Drapeau blanc (1826)	279	(3)
From Le Mercure du dix-neuvieme siecle (1826)	282	(3)
From C.A. Chauvet, ``Des romans de M. Victor Hugo,'' Revue encyclopedique (1831)	285	(2)
From Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve, ``Les Romans de Victor Hugo,'' Journal des debats (1832)	287	(4)
Appendix E: Historical and Cultural Sources	291	(34)
From Bryan Edwards, An Historical Survey of the French Colony in the Island of St. Domingo (1797)	292	(9)
From Pamphile de Lacroix, Memoires pour servir a l'histoire de la Revolution de Saint-Domingue (1819)	301	(21)
From Henri Gregoire, De la litterature des negres (1808)	322	(3)
Appendix F: Literary Sources	325	(14)
From Jean-Baptiste Picquenard, Adonis, ou Le bon negre (1798)	326	(6)
From Jean-Baptiste Picquenard, Zoflora; or, The Generous Negro Girl (1804)	332	(7)
Appendix G: Map of Saint Dominguc	339	(2)
Works Cited	341