Vulnerable bodies with white masks: Me, Tituba, the black witch of Salem, of Maryse Conde

This essay analyses Maryse Conde's I, Tituba, the black witch of Salem (1986) and deals with the prominent presence of three states of vulnerability which are represented by the bodies victims of abjection and racism, by the malleable or restricted young bodies of children, and finally by women bodies which are sexualized and oppressed under a patriarchal order. These bodies show the relations of power's dynamics in which colonized people have to develop mechanisms of protection, resistance, negotiation, but also of subversion, according to the same strategies of domination or "white masks" provided by the European hegemony during the Colonial epoch, whose echoes can still be heard in the present relations between Europe and the New World.