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31 de jul. de 2008 · Blonde Roots is set in a parallel universe, where African, not European, cultures use shipping and weapons technology to create colonies in the Americas and the Caribbean, and to kidnap millions of people and enslave them to work on sugar plantations.
Blonde Roots is a prose novel written by British-Nigerian author Bernardine Evaristo. Published by Penguin UK in 2009 and Penguin USA in 2010, [1] this satirical novel reverts notions of transatlantic slavery, placing Africans as masters of European slaves.
About Blonde Roots. A provocative and “dizzying satire” (The New Yorker) that “boldly turns history on its head” (Elle) from the Man Booker Prize winning author of Girl, Woman, Other. What if the history of the transatlantic slave trade had been reversed and Africans had enslaved Europeans?
A prose novel in which Africans enslave Europeans. Bernardine Evaristo’s first fully-prose novel BLONDE ROOTS (Penguin UK 2008/USA 2009) is an original and often satirical take on slavery in which Africans are the masters and Europeans are their slaves.
30 de abr. de 2009 · Blonde Roots is the tale of Doris, an intelligent young woman who is enslaved to Chief Kaga Konata Katamba I, a powerful absentee sugar baron and former slave trader. From the title alone, it's clear that this novel is playing with our perceptions.
- Bernardine Evaristo
Blonde Roots brings the shackles and cries of long-ago barbarity uncomfortably close and raises timely questions about the society of today.'A bold and...
22 de jan. de 2009 · A poignant and dramatic story grounded in provocative ideas, Blonde Roots is a genuinely original, profoundly imaginative novel.
