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Colonial Apocalypse |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Edward Hower |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1996 |
| Size: 2,113 Words, 12,849 Characters |
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ALL SOULS' RISING
Madison Smartt Bell
New York: Pantheon, 1995
530 pp., $25.00
Cataclysmic historical events have often inspired compelling fiction. The more terror unleashed, the greater the opportunities for a novelist to explore the human capability for both cruelty and compassion.
In his powerful new novel, All Souls' Rising, Madison Smartt Bell has chronicled one of the most apocalyptic revolutions in history, the slave revolt on the island of Santo Domingo. The struggle against France's colonial empire in the 1790s finally led to the establishment of the world's first black republic, Haiti, but at such a cost in lives and property that the nation has never fully recovered from the trauma of its birth.
Bell is the author of two collections of stories and...
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...lution, The Black Jacobins, and can stand beside Alejo Carpentier's masterpieces about those turbulent years in the Caribbean, Kingdom of This World and Explosion in the Cathedral.
Madison Smartt Bell, always an original and eloquent writer, has produced his best novel to date. All Souls' Rising is a brilliant, many-layered novel of cataclysmic historical drama and powerful human emotions.
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