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050 00 $aPQ3939.S3$bT5713 2002
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100 1 $aSéjour, Victor,$d1817-1874.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96100308
240 10 $aTireuse de cartes.$lEnglish$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2001033967
245 14 $aThe fortune teller /$cVictor Séjour ; translated from the French by Norman R. Shapiro ; introduction by M. Lynn Weiss.
260 $aUrbana :$bUniversity of Illinois Press,$c[2002], ©2002.
300 $axxiv, 181 pages :$billustrations ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 179-181).
520 1 $a"Before he was twenty years old, Louisiana-born Victor Sejour expatriated himself to Paris, where his acclaimed dramas would appear alongside those of Alexandre Dumas and Victor Hugo. His mother a free woman of color, his father of Haitian descent, Sejour grew up a free Creole of color in antebellum New Orleans, but was deeply affected by the alienation and discrimination he encountered as a person of mixed descent.".
520 8 $a"The Fortune-Teller was first performed in French in 1859, just one year after six-year-old Edgardo Mortara was removed from his Jewish home by the Bologna inquisitor after being baptized by a maid. The inquisitor, supported by Pope Pius IX, vowed not to return the boy until his parents converted to Catholicism.".
520 8 $a"In Sejour's touching rendering of the Mortara case, the infant girl Noemi is taken from her Jewish family after being baptized by a wet nurse. Seventeen years later, Noemi's widowed and wealthy mother Gemea masquerades as a poor fortune-teller in search of Noemi, who, she suspects, is living with the Catholic Lomellini family, under the name Paola.".
520 8 $a"In exchange for money to pay her husband's ransom, Bianca Lomellini reveals to Gemea that Paola is indeed the long-lost Noemi. Neither Jew nor Christian, torn between mothers, names, and homes, the young woman grapples with an anomalous identity, testing the bonds of both nature and nurture."--BOOK JACKET.
700 1 $aShapiro, Norman R.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81117557
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