A People Without Shame - Brossura

Hogan, Patrick Colm

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ISBN 13: 9798987007532

Casa editrice: Blackwater Press, 2023

Riassunto

A profoundly beautiful novel commenting on the horrors of colonial oppression, trauma, love, and the power of story.

Somota is society divided by change, and by memories. When A. arrives in the protectorate shortly after the first world war, he is unsure of what to expect. Employed by the government as a linguistic anthropologist, he is tasked with documenting the benefits of the new order and reporting them to the Reverend G. But what are these benefits? In his travels throughout the region, A. finds only the physical and emotional scars of conquest, and of routine colonial administration. Yet, even as the indigenous culture is being reduced to mere fragments, he also learns of a sublime
literature responding to those historical traumas. One storyteller in particular, Kehinta, begins to reveal to A. just how much has been lost. A profoundly beautiful novel commenting on the horrors of colonial oppression, trauma, love, and the power of story.

"Imaginative and gripping."--Noam Chomsky

"A People Without Shame is an artistic triumph composed by a master craftsman whose courageous eye makes all too vivid the abundant horrors suffered by beautiful people and their culture at the hands of soul-dead colonizers eager to extinguish them. Patrick Hogan is -- as Kurosawa says an artist must be -- one who does not look away. Inside this grand and ambitious novel beats an urgent and epic dirge written with magic enough to awaken our collective humanity to the poetry preserved in the raging hearts of people whose stories refuse to die."--Matt Cashion, author of Last Words of the Holy Ghost

"Hogan's absorbing and stylistically inventive novel offers a stirring meditation on the cost of colonial appropriation. Told with visceral prose and cinematic sweep, it's also a unique tale of unrequited love. Kehinta, the guardian of her people's epic poem, is Hogan's great achievement, magnetic yet always just beyond our grasp, and A's quest to understand her--to wrest the meaning of a poem from her--brings all the twisted moralities of the colonial enterprise into razorsharp relief."--Ken Kwapis, director of He's Just Not That Into You and The Office

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Informazioni sull'autore

Patrick Colm Hogan is the author of The Death of the Goddess: A Poem in Twelve Cantos (2014), a book-length, narrative poem based on Hindu Goddess myths, as well as lyric poems and short fiction, published in such outlets as minnesota review, The Journal of Irish Literature, and the Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies. A Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor at the University of Connecticut, he is the author of over twenty scholarly and interpretive books, most of which treat postcolonial or world literature. Hogan regularly teaches courses in postcolonial literature (often with a focus on Africa), as well as courses on the pre-colonial and postcolonial literary traditions of India and China. In keeping with these interests, he has worked to acquire at least some knowledge of French, German, Italian, Spanish, Latin, Hindi, Mandarin, and Sanskrit. A People Without Shame is his first novel.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Blackwater Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2023
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 13: 9798987007532
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 384
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile