Bernardine Evaristo, of British and Nigerian descent, has come up with an ingenious way of refreshing the horrors of the slave trade: by creating a photographic negative of historical reality, where what was black becomes white and vice versa.

Bernardine Evaristo, of British and Nigerian descent, has come up with an ingenious way of refreshing the horrors of the slave trade: by creating a photographic negative of historical reality, where what was black becomes white and vice versa. The epigraph she takes from Nietzsche underlines the point of such a reversal: ‘Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

In Blonde Roots, Benardine Evaristo's latest novel, an alternate universe exists in which Aphrikans (Africans/Blacks) are the dominant race and the slave trade imports Europans (Europeans/Whites)

Only 12 left in stock (more on the way). In Blonde Roots, Benardine Evaristo's latest novel, an alternate universe exists in which Aphrikans (Africans/Blacks) are the dominant race and the slave trade imports Europans (Europeans/Whites).

The ship was swaying from side to side so we must have moored for the night. The rain forest loomed in front of me, a high wall of vegetation. My mattress had molded to the fetal curve of my shape stretched out, wriggling. My mattress had molded to the fetal curve of my shape stretched out, wriggling my toes, raising my arms above my head, feeling the rocks of my vertebrae pull away from each other. I rotated my head from side to side to ease away the cricks. I yawned loudly, just for the pleasure of it. I felt so lighthearted, so youthful, so full of hope. Morning dew brought out the smell of fish, embedded in the sacks.

Blonde Roots turns the whole world on its nappy head, and you'll be My only complaint about Bernardine Evaristo's alternate history of racial slavery is that it's 150 years late. Imagine the outrage this clever novel would have provoked alongside Harriet Beecher Stowe's incendiary story or Frederick Douglass's memoir!

by Bernardine Evaristo. Evaristo captures and reverses the social dynamics that cause people to adapt and to protect their culture under the oppressive and dehumanizing conditions of slavery.

Mbe Frsl Frsa, fea. Evaristo in 2008. Bernardine Anne Mobolaji Evaristo. Evaristo is the author of eight books of fiction and verse fiction that explore aspects of the African diaspora. She notably experiments with form and narrative perspective, often merging the past with the present, fiction with poetry, the factual with the speculative, and reality with alternate realities (as in her 2008 novel Blonde Roots). Her verse novel The Emperor's

In her new novel, Bernardine Evaristo, never one to shrink from an experiment, has taken her boldest step to date and turned the whole thing on its head.

In her new novel, Bernardine Evaristo, never one to shrink from an experiment, has taken her boldest step to date and turned the whole thing on its head. She imagines it was Africans who enslaved Europeans – namely the spirited daughter of a family of English cabbage serfs, Doris Scagglethorpe. The empire was not a tiny big-headed island near Calais, but a similar one called the United Kingdom of Great Ambossa off the coast of "Aphrika". In Evaristo's muddy hands, history is Playdough.

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Город: London, EnglandПодписчиков: 15 ты. себе: GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER: Booker Prize Winner. себе: GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER: Booker Prize Winner 2019. Sunday Times Bestseller. Penguin UK/ Grove Atlantic USA.

The most provocative debut novel of the year, a dizzying satire (The New Yorker) that boldly turns history on its head (Elle).

A provocative novel that upends the history of the transatlantic slave trade, "Blond Roots" reverses and reexamines notions of savagery and civilization as it follows a young woman's journey to freedom.