1 option
Humus.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kanor, Fabienne.
- Series:
- CARAF Books
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Slave ships--Fiction.
- Slave ships.
- Fugitive slaves--Fiction.
- Fugitive slaves.
- Enslaved women--Fiction.
- Enslaved women.
- Genre:
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (213 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- "A novel based on a March 23, 1774, report by Louis Mosnier, captain of a slave ship, recounting an incident in which fourteen African women escaped from the ship's hold to leap overboard. Kanor focuses on the fourteen unnamed women, reinvesting them with identities and voices to narrate this harrowing story. Humus provokes lively discussion on the relationship between fear and the abusive exercise of power; the long-term effects of legitimized systems of exploitation in individual lives at all points in the hierarchy"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Translator's Acknowledgments
- The Mute Woman
- The Old Woman
- The Slave
- The Amazon
- La Blanche
- The Twin Sisters
- The Employee
- The Little One
- The Queen
- The‑One-Who-Flies
- The Mother
- The Heiress
- Afterword by Gladys M. Francis
- Bibliography
- Recent Books in the Series CARAF Books-Caribbean and African Literature.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780813944685
- 0813944686
- OCLC:
- 1131878480
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.