Beneath the Black Sun of Cabinda
The story opens at a time when Cabinda – a small African enclave surrounded by the Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and separated from Angola by the Congo River – is plunged into bloody war. Deep in the heart of Cabinda is the Mayombe rainforest, home to a group of guerrilla fighters...
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African Sun Media
2023
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| author | Everson, Vanessa |
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| description | The story opens at a time when Cabinda – a small African enclave surrounded by the Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and separated from Angola by the Congo River – is plunged into bloody war. Deep in the heart of Cabinda is the Mayombe rainforest, home to a group of guerrilla fighters whose very existence is to liberate their land from the terrors perpetrated by the Angolan army. Against that backdrop of massacres and deforestation and written with crusading fervour, this novel is much more than a political tract. It is a powerful story of impossible love: the poignant love of the principled, young doctor Albino for the country lass Maria; the redemptory love which his ailing, ruthless grandfather Santos is surprised to feel as death approaches; and the love of a dispossessed people for the land of their birth. Recommended reading, then, for lovers of African literature, as well as for scholars and adepts of colonial and postcolonial literature. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1162342024-03-27T16:33:48Z Beneath the Black Sun of Cabinda Everson, Vanessa Language & Literature African American Studies thema EDItEUR::F Fiction and Related items::FV Historical fiction The story opens at a time when Cabinda – a small African enclave surrounded by the Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and separated from Angola by the Congo River – is plunged into bloody war. Deep in the heart of Cabinda is the Mayombe rainforest, home to a group of guerrilla fighters whose very existence is to liberate their land from the terrors perpetrated by the Angolan army. Against that backdrop of massacres and deforestation and written with crusading fervour, this novel is much more than a political tract. It is a powerful story of impossible love: the poignant love of the principled, young doctor Albino for the country lass Maria; the redemptory love which his ailing, ruthless grandfather Santos is surprised to feel as death approaches; and the love of a dispossessed people for the land of their birth. Recommended reading, then, for lovers of African literature, as well as for scholars and adepts of colonial and postcolonial literature. 2023-10-05T10:58:42Z 2023-10-05T10:58:42Z 2015 book ONIX_20231005_9781920689889_1945 9781920689889 9781920689872 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/116234 eng image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv1nzg26q African Sun Media Sun Lit 10.2307/j.ctv1nzg26q 10.2307/j.ctv1nzg26q 048cee77-b701-488f-a361-c440358a53b9 9781920689889 9781920689872 Sun Lit open access |
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