Humus (Caraf Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French) - Softcover

Kanor, Fabienne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0813944694 ISBN 13: 9780813944692

Verlag: University of Virginia Press, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

While researching in Nantes, a port city enriched by the slave trade, celebrated French novelist Fabienne Kanor came across a chilling report written in 1774 by the commander of a slave ship, Le Soleil. Captain Louis Mosnier recounted the loss of valuable "cargo" when fourteen African women escaped from the ship's hold to leap overboard rather than face enslavement. Half of them drowned or were eaten by sharks. From this tragic incident, Kanor has composed a powerful, polyphonic novel in which each woman tells her own vivid story. Their disparate lives from differing cultures, conditions, and perspectives intersect through their violent mistreatment, profound sense of disorientation, and collective act of resistance. These intertwined narratives reveal the brutalizing effects of slavery, not only on the victim but also on the oppressor: the master can no more escape its dehumanizing effects than can the slave.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Fabienne Kanor is a journalist and filmmaker and the author of numerous works of fiction and drama, including the novel Faire l’aventure, which received the Prix Carbet de la Caraïbe du Tout-Monde for the best literary work in French or French Creole from the Caribbean and the Americas.

Lynn E. Palermo is Associate Professor of French Studies at Susquehanna University. Gladys M. Francis is Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Georgia State University.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Virginia Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0813944694
• ISBN 13: 9780813944692
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 212
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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