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FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER'Wildly entertaining, deeply affecting' Ali SmithLondinium, AD 211. Zuleika is a modern girl living in an ancient world. She's a back-alley firecracker, a scruffy Nubian babe with tangled hair and bare feet - and she's just been married off a fat old Roman.
The Emperor's Babe by Bernardine Evaristo. Published by Hamish Hamilton on 24 Feb 2017. Genres: Historical, Novel-in-verse. Pages: 250. Bernardine Evaristo’s tale of forbidden love in bustling third-century London is an intoxicating cocktail of poetry, history, and fiction. Feisty, precocious Zuleika, daughter of Sudanese immigrants-made-good ...
1 de dez. de 2015 · Bernardine Evaristo’s The Emperor’s Babe (2001) contributes to the imaginative disentanglement of the traditional British ethnicity-and-nation nexus and questions the related founding myth of racial purity by featuring the character of Zuleika, a young black woman who is born of Sudanese parents in Roman London.
The Emperor's Babe. New York: Viking Press, 2002. Once again the old has found a new, confident, rigorous voice in Bernadine Evaristo's verse novel, The Emperor's Babe. Set in Londinium, Britannia—an outpost of the Roman Empire—in A.D. 211, The Emperor's Babe chronicles the life of Zuleika, a young woman of Sudanese descent.
5 de nov. de 2017 · Nancy Caronia explores The Emperor’s Babe (2001), a work set in AD 201 that calls into question the purity and privilege of contemporary Britain’s whiteness by confronting notions of racial and gender tensions in London, aka Londinium, Britannia, a heterogeneous outpost of the Roman Empire. Purposefully anachronistic, Evaristo’s poem as ...
1 de jan. de 2001 · The Emperor’s Babe is very poetic, deep, bittersweet and alluring. Despite this being set in AD 211, it still felt rather modern. This is the first book of such a poetic nature I have read and I can imagine this would be an incredible audiobook!!
