![]() ![]() She movingly recounts experiences of tremendous hardship and dreams of the people she’s left behind, all while journeying toward an escape into freedom.īlonde Roots is a reading experience much like Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass, in that Through the Looking Glass was in theme a mirror image of Alice in Wonderland ( Wikipedia). She is subsequently enslaved and taken to the New World, as well as to the imperial center of Great Ambossa. ![]() We see this tragicomic world turned upside down through the eyes of Doris, an Englishwoman who is kidnapped one day while playing hide-and-seek with her sisters in the fields near their home. Award-winning writer Bernardine Evaristo’s novel Blonde Roots asks: What if the history of the transatlantic slave trade had been reversed and Africans had enslaved Europeans? How would that have changed the ways that people justified their inhuman behavior? And how would it inform our cultural attitudes and the insidious racism that still lingers-and sometimes festers-today? ![]()
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