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An African in Imperial London: The Indomitable Life of A.B.C. Merriman-Labor (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781849049603)
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xIn a world dominated by the British Empire, and at a time when many Europeans considered black people inferior, Sierra Leonean writer A. B. C. Merriman-Labor claimed his right to describe the world as he found it. He looked at the Empire's great capital and laughed.
In this first biography of Merriman-Labor, Danell Jones describes the tragic spiral that pulled him down the social ladder from writer and barrister to munitions worker, from witty observer of the social order to patient in a state-run hospital for the poor. In restoring this extraordinary man to the pantheon of African observers of colonialism, she opens a window onto racial attitudes in Edwardian London.
An African in Imperial London is a rich portrait of a great metropolis, writhing its way into a new century of appalling social inequity, world-transforming inventions, and unprecedented demands for civil rights.
Author: Danell Jones
ISBN-10: 1849049602
ISBN-13: 9781849049603
Publisher: Hurst & Co.
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2018
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.70w x 1.10d
Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2019
In this first biography of Merriman-Labor, Danell Jones describes the tragic spiral that pulled him down the social ladder from writer and barrister to munitions worker, from witty observer of the social order to patient in a state-run hospital for the poor. In restoring this extraordinary man to the pantheon of African observers of colonialism, she opens a window onto racial attitudes in Edwardian London.
An African in Imperial London is a rich portrait of a great metropolis, writhing its way into a new century of appalling social inequity, world-transforming inventions, and unprecedented demands for civil rights.
Author: Danell Jones
ISBN-10: 1849049602
ISBN-13: 9781849049603
Publisher: Hurst & Co.
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2018
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.70w x 1.10d
Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2019
By Danell Jones
xDanell Jones is a writer and scholar whose works have appeared in a wide variety of publications, from British academic journals to small presses. She has a PhD in literature from Columbia University and is the author of The Virginia Woolf Writers' Workshop and Desert Elegy.
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