Blonde Roots
| Title | Blonde Roots |
| Year for Search | 2008 |
| Authors | Evaristo, Bernardine [Anne Mobolaji](b. 1959) |
| Pagination | 260 pp. |
| Date Published | 2008 |
| Publisher | Hamish Hamilton |
| Place Published | London |
| ISBN Number | 9780241143858 978-1-59448-863-4 |
| Keywords | English author, Female author |
| Annotation | The novel is set in an alternative history in which “whyte Europanes” are captured and enslaved by “blak Aphrikans,” with two of the three sections in the voice of Doris Scagglethorpe (given the slave name Omorenomwara) with the middle section in the voice of Chief Kaga Konata Katamba I, who brands his slaves with his initials, KKK. |
| Additional Publishers | U.S. ed. New York: Riverhead Books, 2009. 269 pp. |
| Holding Institutions | PSt |
| Author Note | The female English author (b. 1959) was the first Black woman to win the Booker Prize. She holds a doctorate in Creative Writing from Goldsmith’s College, University of London, and is Professor of Creative Writing at Brunel University. |
| Full Text | 2008 Evaristo, Bernardine [Anne Mobolaji] (b. 1959). Blonde Roots. London: Hamish Hamilton. 260 pp. U.S. ed. New York: Riverhead Books, 2009. 269 pp. PSt The novel is set in an alternative history in which “whyte Europanes” are captured and enslaved by “blak Aphrikans,” with two of the three sections in the voice of Doris Scagglethorpe (given the slave name Omorenomwara) with the middle section in the voice of Chief Kaga Konata Katamba I, who brands his slaves with his initials, KKK. The female English author was the first Black woman to win the Booker Prize. She holds a doctorate in Creative Writing from Goldsmith’s College, University of London, and is Professor of Creative Writing at Brunel University. |
