The Viceroy of Ouidah

Name: The Viceroy of Ouidah
Rating: 5.0 (1 reviews)
Author: Bruce Chatwin

Auteur: Bruce Chatwin

Taal: Engels

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Uitgever: Penguin Books Ltd

Auteur: Bruce Chatwin

Engels
Paperback
9780140112900
07 juni 1988
160 pagina's

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Bruce Chatwin

"Charles Bruce Chatwin (13 May 1940 – 18 January 1989) was an English travel writer, novelist, and journalist. His first book, In Patagonia (1977), established Chatwin as a travel writer, although he considered himself instead a storyteller, interested in bringing to light unusual tales. He won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel On the Black Hill (1982), while his novel Utz (1988) was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. In 2008 The Times named Chatwin number 46 on their list of ""50 Greatest British Writers Since 1945.""

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Bruce Chatwins debut novel: Conrads Heart of Darkness seen through a microscope (The Atlantic)

In this vivid, powerful novel, Chatwin tells of Francisco Manoel de Silva, a poor Brazilian adventurer who sails to Dahomey in West Africa to trade for slaves and amass his fortune. His plans exceed his dreams, and soon he is the Viceroy of Ouidah, master of all slave trading in Dahomey. But the ghastly business of slave trading and the open savagery of life in Dahomey slowly consume Manoel's wealth and sanity.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 07 juni 1988
Aantal pagina's: 160
Illustraties: Nee

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Hoofdauteur: Bruce Chatwin
Hoofduitgeverij: Penguin Books Ltd

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Extra groot lettertype: Nee
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Verpakking breedte: 129 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 12 mm
Verpakking lengte: 198 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 148 g

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EAN: 9780140112900

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Categorieën: Literatuur & Romans

Geschiedenis

Historische romans

Literaire romans

Regio's & Landen

Afrika

Noord-, Midden-, & Zuid-Amerika

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Taal: Engels
Land: Brazilie
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Beschikbaarheid: Leverbaar

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A formidable fictionalised biography of a slave trader
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- 3 maart 2010
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In only 101 pages, Bruce Chatwin (BC) evokes the life and times of Francisco Manoel da Silva (FMdS), who was a Brazilian slave trader in the African kingdom of Dahomey from 1812 until his death in 1857. His brilliant novella starts with a powerful description of the annual celebration of his passing away in Benin by his many present-day, rather impoverished descendents, who now form branches of a true Diaspora. They hope, some are convinced, that somewhere, somehow the supposed tremendous richness supposedly accumulated by the founder of the dynasty, is hidden, buried somewhere. BC’s novella is a dazzling piece of reading and in today’s terms politically incorrect, as it should be: each character is simply an extension of the era’s principal protagonists’ world views about the need for human sacrifice, for warfare, for profit from dealing in human bodies.
E.g., the Dahomey king argues: tradition rules there shall be war every dry season. What to do with captives? Behead them to reassure the elders, the Dead Kings that I have not gone soft in the head, or sell them in one piece to FMdS to live on in Brazil? There is a lot of madness in this book.
BC’s previous job at Sotheby’s guarantees total authenticity for the novella’s visual impact by effortlessly naming the artefacts en vogue at the time, the imported brands, fabrics, household items, luxuries, tools, pieces of dress, etc. Similarly, BC has done exhaustive archival and field research in Britain, Brazil and Benin, as Dahomey is called today. In fact, during his early research there, he was mistaken for a mercenary after a failed coup and almost executed. In his posthumously published collection of journalistic writing called What Am I Doing Here, he admits the incident delayed the writing of this truly fabulous novella.

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