Shadows of Your Black Memory - Hardcover

Ndongo, Donato

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0974888125 ISBN 13: 9780974888125

Verlag: Swan Isle Press, 2008

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Book by Ndongo Donato

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"Along with the vicissitudes of the construction of identity and race, Donato Ndongo's lasting concern in his fiction has been colonialism and its 'dark idea' - as Joseph Conrad called it in Heart of Darkness." - Michael Ugarte, from the Postscript"

Reseña del editor:

Set during the last years of Spanish rule in Equatorial Guinea, "Shadows of Your Black Memory" presents the voice of a young African man reflecting on his childhood. Through the idealistic eyes of the nameless protagonist, Donato Ngongo portrays the cultural conflicts between Africa and Spain, ancestral worship competing with Catholicism, and tradition giving way to modernity. The backdrop of a nation moving toward a troubled independence parallels the young man's internal struggle to define his own identity. In this bildungsroman, Ndongo masterfully exposes the cultural fissures of his native land. "Spanish Guinea" is a heated, sensual landscape with exotic animals and trees, ancient rituals, ghosts, saints, and sinners. We come to know the narrator's extended family, the people of his village, merchants, sorcerers, and Catholic priests; we see them critically at times, even humorously, yet always with compassion and a magical dignity. Michael Ugarte's sensitive translation captures the spirit of the original Spanish prose and makes Ndongo's powerful, gripping tale available to English-speaking readers for the first time.

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• Verlag: Swan Isle Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0974888125
• ISBN 13: 9780974888125
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 180