When one attempts to visualize the consuetudinary usage of interracial sexual relationships in Caribbean literature, it is quite commonplace to envisage Atlantean male slaves succumbing to the every whimsical desire of their female masters. What becomes clearly evident in both Octavia Butler's Kindred and Maryse Conde's I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem is the complete reversal of the this aforementioned stereotype. Both Butler and Conde deftly illustrate interracial sexual relationships that involve woman protagonists dealing with a myriad of trials and tribulations stemming directly or indirectly from such unconventional associations. Upon stringently critiquing the precise usage of these relationships each female protagonist finds herself encumbered within, it becomes evident that there lies a plethora of stark differences concerning the motives, intentions, and means in which the given authors ultimately strive to portray through these interracial sexual relationships. Hence, the representations of interracial sexual relationships within these novels are introduced for indubi

In Conde's work, the black female protagonist is Tituba, a marvelously gifted soul from the Caribbean island of Barbados. Witchcraft and mysticism permeate the text, as Tituba travels to North America unwillingly following the trail of tears contingent upon her life of servitude. While in North American, following the hypocritical trials which took place in Salem, Tituba is purchased by the Jewish trader Benjamin Cohen D'Azevedo. Tituba, a woman who freely subjects herself to the pleasurable joys of sexual relationships, soon systematically enters embraces of love with Benjamin, which prompts her to ask "Why must any relationship with the slightest hint of affection between a man and a woman necessarily end up in bed? I can't get over it." (Conde, 126.) The truth of the matter is, Benjamin shows Tituba the pure, unconditional love that John Indian was never capable of extending to her. The extent of this unconditional love is made evident to the reader, and protagonist, when Benjamin states ""Our God knows neither race nor color. You can become one of us if you like and can pray with us." (Conde, 131.)" In addition to being a portrayal of true love, Benjamin also parallels Tituba since he, too, is under persecution from the Puritans. "There was a historian teaching at the same college...she was Jewish...it is because of her that I decided

tably distinct purposes and thus the concluding results of each differ quite clearly, though they ultimately unite in principle since they both ultimately break the barriers of these relationships in Caribbean literature.

to give Tituba a Jewish lover and that I tried to associate discrimination against the Jews with discrimination against the blacks." (Scarboro interview, 201-202) In this perspective, it becomes largely lucid to the reader that Conde intends to include the element of an interracial sexual relationship in the novel to illustrate to Tituba the reality that even those initially characterized as "double Others, socially established whites/selfish men" (Scarboro afterword, 213) could also fall prey to the unrelenting persecutions of the Puritans, and for her to feel a sort of intangible kinship with an individual as vastly distinct in all aspects as Benjamin Cohen D'Azevedo.

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