Blonde Roots by Bernardine Evaristo
An inventive alternate-history satire that reverses the transatlantic slave trade: African nations enslave Europeans, transporting them to plantations and commodifying their bodies and culture. Through the experiences of a white captive stripped of status and forced to navigate a brutal, racially inverted world, the narrative skewers colonial ideologies and exposes how race, language and power are socially constructed and used to justify exploitation. Mixing biting humor and stark critique, it interrogates identity, resistance and adaptation while forcing readers to see familiar histories from a destabilized perspective.
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- Published
- 2008
- Nationality
- British
- Length
- Unknown
- Pages
- 272 pages
- Original Language
- English
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