All Souls’ Rising (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: T. Coraghessan Boyle
- First Published: 1995
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 1791-1802
- Setting: Saint Domingue (present-day Haiti)
- Principal Characters: Antoine Hébert, Elise Hébert Thibodet Tocquet, Nanon, Captain Maillart, Toussaint, Riau, Choufleur, Michel Arnaud, Claudine Arnaud
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction
- Subjects: Blacks, Colonialism, France or French people, Love or romance, Race, Slavery or slaves, Revolutions, Violence
- Locales: Haiti
Madison Smartt Bell has long been interested in social outcasts, deviants, revolutionaries, and the violence and death they engender. The protagonist in his novel The Washington Square Ensemble (1983) is a heroin dealer; the central character in Waiting for the End of the World (1985) is a drunk who, with his equally peculiar friends, is planning to blow up New York. Even in the more traditional Soldier’s Joy (1989), which is set in the rural South instead of the urban North, the well-intentioned major characters are threatened by people who take the law into...
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