Blonde Roots
Book - 2009
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.
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Publisher:
New York : Riverhead Books, 2009.
Edition:
First American edition
ISBN:
9781594488634
1594488630
1594488630
Branch Call Number:
EVARISTO
Characteristics:
269 pages : map ; 22 cm.
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From Library Staff
"...an astonishing, uncomfortable and beautiful alternative history that goes back several centuries to flip the slave trade, with “Aphrikans” enslaving the people of “Europa” and exporting many of them to “Amarika.” ~ excerpted from a starred review from Publisher's Weekly.
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Add a CommentA very thought-provoking, and very uncomfortable, reversal of the roles of slavery.