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Bezig met laden... Escape with me! An oriental sketch-book (origineel 1939; editie 1940)door Osbert Sitwell
Informatie over het werkEscape with me! An oriental sketch-book door Osbert Sitwell (1939)
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This classic work of scholarship and empathy tells the story of the self-creation of the African-American people. It assesses the full impact of the Middle Passage -- "the most traumatizing mass human migration in modern history" -- and of North American slavery both on the enslaved and on those who enslaved them. It explores the ways in which a nominally free society perverted its own freedoms and denied the fact that an inhuman institution lies at the heart of the American experience. The authority and eloquence of this work make it essential reading for all who want to understand the American past and present. "From the Trade Paperback edition." Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Dec 16, 2011 Linda rated it liked it
Ignore the silly title - this is a beautifully written travelogue of Asia, and particularly Peking, in the 1930s. Among other things, Sitwell visits a remote temple where the last of the imperial eunuchs live out their days in poverty and isolation, and catalogues the great range of the cries and songs of the street pedlars of Peking. It's strangely - or relievedly, depending on your perspective - apolitical, considering the violent politics of the time, politics that included the stirrings of Communist revolution and Japanese aggression.