A Wilderness of Vines
Inbunden bok. Doubleday & Company. 1 uppl. 1966. 345 sidor.
Gott skick. Skyddsomslag i gott skick.
ENGELSK TEXT. Format 21,5 x 14,5 cm Vikt 505 g.
Inbundet mörkblått klotband med guldfärgad ryggtext och skyddsomslag, första upplagan, första tryckningen. FIRST EDITION. Despite its overtly romantic cover, the novel by Hal Bennett (1936 – 2004) is a serious satirical novel about post-slavery life in the South. "The story opens in 1919 as Janus Manning rescues Neva Stapleton from the orphanage by taking her as his bride. Both characters are the product of bi-racial parents and, by virtue of the lightness of their skin, place themselves above their darker skinned neighbors in town. Establishing the characters' obsession with whiteness as the embodiment of all that is good, Bennett goes to great lengths to show how the effects of racism have infiltrated the community, creating an atmosphere of systemic self-loathing where the town's inhabitants are "just as prejudiced against black people as some of you white people are." Internalized hatred is passed on through the generations, creating a powder keg of hostility that literally explodes at the end of the novel."
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