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The Dahomean; an historical novel
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks PS 3547 .E65 Y47 1971
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yerby, Frank, 1916-1991.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Historical fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 383 p. 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, Dial Press [1971]
- Summary:
- This is based on Melville J. Herskovits' 1967 anthropological study: Dahomey: An Ancient West African Kingdom, among others, and with typical Yerby flair and a lot of cribbed Dahomean words -- "A man can be executed for merely pinching an ahosi's behind, Alogba"--He carries on with an infinite variety of questionable rituals. The novel features a superhuman protagonist named Nyasanu, meaning "man among men" although it should really mean "man among women" since Nyasanu ends up with more wives than he can handle and is eventually betrayed and shipped off to America as a slave.
- Local Notes:
- HSP copy inscribed to John E. Edwards from author.
- OCLC:
- 156711
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