Author | Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo |
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Language | French |
Genre | Historical fiction Sotie |
Set in | Antananarivo, 1882–96 |
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Publication place | Madagascar |
L'Aube rouge ([lob ʁuʒ], "The Red Dawn") is a historical novel by Malagasy poet Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo. Its narrative, influenced by the author's Malagasy nationalist sentiments in the context of French colonization, follows the 1883–96 invasions of Madagascar by France and the war of resistance fought by the Malagasy Kingdom of Imerina. L'Aube rouge, Rabearivelo's first novel, was written in 1925 and published posthumously in 1998, 61 years after the author's death by suicide.