Love, Regardless

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Twisted Journeys

Twisted Journeys

Bisulo’s Pig

$35.00
ISBN
9781925736854
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By Taz Liffman
Format Paperback / softback
Page Extent 416
Book Size 545 mm (H x W x D)
Imprint Hybrid Publishing
Release Date 1 Sep 2022
Subject Classification Historical fiction

It’s the turn of the nineteenth century and a small contingent of British colonialists has been dispatched to a (fictitious) African country, their mission: to establish colonial dominion over an ‘unclaimed territory’. While some of colonialism’s cruelties have by this stage been realised, the ‘Scramble for Africa’, under the auspices of Darwinian theory, Christian charity and Eurocentrism, has assumed the guise of philanthropy. Colonialism’s ‘noble duty’ – the ‘white man’s burden’ – is ‘to save the savages from themselves’.

Told with a dry, caustic humour that lampoons the era’s language and sensibilities, Bisulo’s Pig aims to situate the reader in the colonial mindset, typical of the time, that fictionalised Africa and rendered its native inhabitants as pitiful, barbarous or sub-human – and to reveal that a great many of us might not be quite as free of an imperialistic outlook as we may fancy.