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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.
31 de jul. de 2008 · Blonde Roots turns the whole world on its nappy head, and you'll be surprised how different it looks -- and how similar. In the reverse-image past that Evaristo imagines, civilized Africans have built a vibrant culture and economy by capturing primitive Europeans and using them as 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.
22 de ene. de 2009 · Blonde Roots. Bernardine Evaristo. Penguin, Jan 22, 2009 - Fiction - 288 pages. A provocative and "dizzying satire" (The New Yorker) that "boldly turns history on its head" (Elle) from the Man...
Blonde Roots. Bernardine Evaristo. Penguin, 2009 - Fiction - 269 pages. A provocative novel that upends the history of the transatlantic slave trade, reversing and...
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.
