Bisulo's pig / Taz Liffman
- Bib ID:
- 8669418
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Liffman, Taz, author
- Description:
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- Melbourne, Victoria : Hybrid Publishers, [2022]
- ©2022
- 404 pages : 24 cm
- ISBN:
- 9781925736854
- Summary:
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"It's the turn of the 19th century and a small contingent of British colonialists has been dispatched to a (fictional) African country, their mission: to establish colonial dominion over an 'unclaimed territory'. While some of colonialism's cruelties have by this stage been realised, the 'Scramble for Africa', under the auspices of Darwinian theory, Christian charity and Eurocentrism, has assumed the guise of philanthropy. Colonialism's 'noble duty' - the 'white man's burden' - is 'to save the savages from themselves.' Told through a dry, caustic humour that lampoons the era's language and sensibilities, Bisulo's Pig aims to pit the reader in the colonial mindset, typical of the era, that fictionalised Africa and rendered its native inhabitants as pitiful, barbarous or sub-human - and to reveal that a great many of us might not be quite as free of an imperialistic outlook as we may fancy."--Back cover.
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- Copyright:
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In Copyright
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2092 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2022
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