SAFARA in the BEGINNING_______________________________
(With Bible Verses, Motion
Pictures and Field Guides)
Safara in the Beginning is now being hosted by Purplefrog. This web-novel, set in the seventeenth century, is a tragedy, not in the codified sense of the plays of Racine and Corneille, but classical in spirit. Safara, a young African princess taken as a slave from Senegal to Martinique, largely determines the plot; her voyages over the ocean give the work an epic quality.To the left of the main textual body, Bible quotations and natural history descriptions echo Old Testament Christianity and Animistic traditions at their point of contact: mythopoetization of nature. Scattered throughout are five filmic scenes using the close-up, time-lapse and other cinematic effects. These techniques enable the conflict-crisis-resolution model to have conciseness and scope. This approach could offer possibilities for change in the novel as did Madame de Lafayette's Princesse de Clèves written in the seventeenth century.
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This work was selected for The New Vision Festival in Miami. The exhibition, entitled: The Manipulated Word, Text and Image: Florida/Brazil, was held Nov. 9-Dec. 21, 1996, at Ground Level, South Florida Art Center.Safara in the Beginning is by Christy Sheffield Sanford, Copyright © 1996.