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The Cattle Killing Paperback - 1997
by John Edgar Wideman
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In plague-ridden 18th-century Philadelphia, a young itinerant black preacher's search for an endangered African woman plunges them both into the spiraling nightmare of a society splitting itself into white and black.
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In plague-ridden eighteenth-century Philadelphia, a young itinerant black preacher searches for a mysterious, endangered African woman. His struggle to find her and save them both plummets them both into the nightmare of a society violently splitting itself into white and black. Spiraling outward from the core image of a cattle killing--the Xhosa people's ritual destruction of their herd in a vain attempt to resist European domination--the novel expands its narrator's search for meaning and love into the America, Europe and South Africa of yesterday and today.
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- Title The Cattle Killing
- Author John Edgar Wideman
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st Softcover
- Pages 224
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Mariner Books, Wilmington, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
- Publication date 1997-09-15
- ISBN 9780395877500 / 0395877504
- Weight 0.4 lbs (0.18 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5 x 0.8 in (20.32 x 12.70 x 2.03 cm)
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Themes
- Demographic Orientation: Rural
- Demographic Orientation: Small Town
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Category Fiction - Historical
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 96019305
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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- New York Times, 01/04/1998, Page 24
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