The Flagellants
Carlene Hatcher Polite
This extraordinary
first novel is a brilliant, detailed record of a stormy relationship
written in a unique, concrete language that takes on an independent,
stylized life of its own.
A lyrical and evocative novel that
tells the story of the stormy and fragmented relationship between
Jimson, an aspiring black poet concerned with Afro-American cultural
history, and ideal, a young black woman whose roots are in Black Bottom,
USA .-Jimson and Ideal meet in Greenwich Village and fall in love, but
theirs is a tempestuous affair as they struggle to get beyond the roles a
racially oppressive society has forced upon them. The result is a
painful and moving exploration of the relations between men and women.
Carlene Hatcher Polite was aBlack American writer.
In 1964 Polite moved to Paris where her first book The Flagellants
was published in French in 1966, and was subsequently published in
English in 1967. The book received critical acclaim, with Mel Watkins in
The New York Times Book Review stating it was “a complex,
scathing and often brilliant depiction of the disintegration of a black
couple’s relationship,” and that it “was among the first fictional works
by a black woman to focus directly on the theme of the sometimes bitter
antagonism between black men and women.”
first novel is a brilliant, detailed record of a stormy relationship
written in a unique, concrete language that takes on an independent,
stylized life of its own.
A lyrical and evocative novel that
tells the story of the stormy and fragmented relationship between
Jimson, an aspiring black poet concerned with Afro-American cultural
history, and ideal, a young black woman whose roots are in Black Bottom,
USA .-Jimson and Ideal meet in Greenwich Village and fall in love, but
theirs is a tempestuous affair as they struggle to get beyond the roles a
racially oppressive society has forced upon them. The result is a
painful and moving exploration of the relations between men and women.
Carlene Hatcher Polite was aBlack American writer.
In 1964 Polite moved to Paris where her first book The Flagellants
was published in French in 1966, and was subsequently published in
English in 1967. The book received critical acclaim, with Mel Watkins in
The New York Times Book Review stating it was “a complex,
scathing and often brilliant depiction of the disintegration of a black
couple’s relationship,” and that it “was among the first fictional works
by a black woman to focus directly on the theme of the sometimes bitter
antagonism between black men and women.”
Année:
1967
Editeur::
Macmillan
Langue:
english
Pages:
214
ISBN 10:
0374526567
ISBN 13:
9780374526566
Fichier:
PDF, 30.36 MB
IPFS:
,
english, 1967
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