Johnson's Dictionary - Couverture souple

Dabydeen, David

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1845232186 ISBN 13 : 9781845232184

Editeur : Peepal Tree Press Ltd, 2013

Synopsis

Told by Manu, this novel journeys through 18th-century London and Demerara in British Guiana, recounting experiences that might be dreamed or remembered. With a diverse cast--including slaves, lowly women on the make, lustful overseers, sodomites, and pious Jews--these characters come alive from artist William Hogarth's engravings; Hogarth himself also appears as a drunkard official artist in Demerara, from whom the slave Cato steals his skills and discovers a way of remaking his world. From the dens of sexual specialties, where the ex-slave Francis conducts a highly popular flagellant mission to cure his clients of their man-love and preach abolition, to the sugar estates of Demerara, this novel revels in the connections of empire, art, literature, and human desire in ways that are comic, salutary, and redemptive.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

David Dabydeen is a professor at the Center for Caribbean Studies at the University of Warwick and a former roving ambassador for Guyana. He is the author of "A Harlot's Progress," "The Intended," and "Our Lady of Demerara."

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Peepal Tree Press Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1845232186
• ISBN 13: 9781845232184
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible