
Johnson's Dictionary
David Dabydeen(Author)
Peepal Tree Press Ltd
Will be published approx. on 29. July 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-1-84523-218-4 (ISBN)
Description
Told by Manu, this novel journeys through 18th-century London and Demerara in British Guiana, recounting experiences that might be dreamed or remembered. With a diverse cast--including slaves, lowly women on the make, lustful overseers, sodomites, and pious Jews--these characters come alive from artist William Hogarth's engravings; Hogarth himself also appears as a drunkard official artist in Demerara, from whom the slave Cato steals his skills and discovers a way of remaking his world. From the dens of sexual specialties, where the ex-slave Francis conducts a highly popular flagellant mission to cure his clients of their man-love and preach abolition, to the sugar estates of Demerara, this novel revels in the connections of empire, art, literature, and human desire in ways that are comic, salutary, and redemptive.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Yorkshire
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
black & white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 206 mm
Width: 135 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
272 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84523-218-4 (9781845232184)
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Person
David Dabydeen is a professor at the Center for Caribbean Studies at the University of Warwick and a former roving ambassador for Guyana. He is the author of A Harlot's Progress, The Intended, and Our Lady of Demerara.