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开 本: 32开纸 张: 胶版纸包 装: 平装是否套装: 否国际标准书号ISBN: 9780307275783
Eshun, an African-British author and the artistic director of
the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, ventures from his
home to Ghana to explore his heritage. By his early 30s, Eshun
still cannot adequately answer the question put to him since his
school days in Queensbury: “Where are you from?” He has never felt
welcome in England, where his father, a Ghanaian government
official, moved the family in 1974. Eshun’s memoir focuses on his
April 2002 trip to Ghana, on the African Gold Coast, so-called
because of the vast stores of gold the Europeans extracted. In
fact, the author comes to the painful realization that his
ancestral country colluded intimately in the African slave trade,
and his own ancestors, both the white Dutchman Joseph de Graft and
de Graft’s mixed-race son, were slave traders. Eshun carries a
frozen idea of provincial Ghana from living there briefly in his
youth, and his trip proves an awkward, self-scrutinizing attempt at
reconciling the reality of the modern country, built on slavery and
scarred by discrepancies in class. Eshun elegantly incorporates
stories of previous notable travelers such as W.E.B. Du Bois and
Richard Wright—along with an occasional illustration by Ofili.
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African-born parents—travels to Ghana in search of his roots. He
goes from Accra, Ghana’s cosmopolitan capital city, to the storied
slave forts of Elmina, and on to the historic warrior kingdom of
Asante. During his journey, Eshun uncovers a long-held secret about
his lineage that will compel him to question everything he knows
about himself and where he comes from. From the London suburbs of
his childhood to the twenty-first century African metropolis,
Eshun’s is a moving chronicle of one man’s search for home, and of
the pleasures and pitfalls of fashioning an identity in these
vibrant contemporary worlds.
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