Gender and Race in Historical International Relations episode 1: Blonde Roots

from Students of Humanities · host Universiteit Leiden Faculteit Geesteswetenschappen

Rüya Erdoğan and Mirjam Wolting discuss Bernardine Evaristo's 'Blonde Roots'. Evaristo’s 2008 novel reverses the roles in the narrative of slavery, placing Africans as masters and Europeans as slaves through a fictional story of Doris, a white girl from England who is abducted and shipped to the fictional United Kingdom of Great Ambossa.

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