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- catalog abstract ""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." "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." "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." "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."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Tireuse de cartes. English".
- catalog contributor b12433781.
- catalog contributor b12433782.
- catalog created "c2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "c2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
- catalog description ""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." "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."".
- catalog description ""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." "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."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-181).".
- catalog extent "xxiv, 181 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0252027191 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "c2002.".
- catalog language "eng fre".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Urbana : University of Illinois Press,".
- catalog subject "842/.8 21".
- catalog subject "Children Conversion to Christianity.".
- catalog subject "Christian converts from Judaism 19th century Drama.".
- catalog subject "Drama Translations into English.".
- catalog subject "Jews Conversion to Christianity 19th century Drama.".
- catalog subject "Jews Identity.".
- catalog subject "Mothers and daughters Fiction.".
- catalog subject "PQ3939.S3 T5713 2002".
- catalog subject "Persecution.".
- catalog title "The fortune teller / Victor Séjour ; translated from the French by Norman R. Shapiro ; introduction by M. Lynn Weiss.".
- catalog title "Tireuse de cartes. English".
- catalog type "Drama. fast".
- catalog type "text".