奴隶收容所:“黑色货物”的故事 Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"

基本信息

Format:Paperback / softback 208 pages

Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers

Imprint:HQ

ISBN:9780008368036

Published:9 Jan 2020

Weight:228g

Dimensions:129 x 199 x 17 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

从非洲被绑架，卖到美国。

"对一个不寻常的生命的深刻影响的记录"——《每日电讯报》。

一个重大的文学事件：美国经典作品《他们眼望上苍》的作者新近出版的作品，并由普利策奖得主爱丽丝·沃克作序。

这是大西洋奴隶贸易中幸存者的真实故事。

1931年8月，知名人类学家佐拉·尼尔·赫斯顿（Zora Neale Hurston）来到阿拉巴马州，拜访了90岁的前奴隶库卓·刘易斯（Cudjo Lewis）。

在三个月的时间里，库乔分享了他在非洲的童年；在奴隶制被取缔50年后被抓获并被关押在维达巴拉贡供美国奴隶主挑选的恐怖经历；与其他一百多个灵魂一起乘坐克洛蒂尔达号的中间通道的痛苦经历；以及他在奴隶制下度过的那些年。

《奴隶收容所》将Cudjo的声音展现在人们面前，是对历史和文化的宝贵贡献，是一部既凄美又深刻的作品。

Abducted from Africa, sold in America.

“A deeply affecting record of an extraordinary life”- Daily Telegraph

A major literary event: a newly published work from the author of the American classic Their Eyes Were Watching God, with a foreword from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker.

The true story of one of the last-known survivors of the Atlantic slave trade.

In August 1931, famed anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston travelled to Alabama to visit ninety-year-old Cudjo Lewis, a former slave.

Over three months, Cudjo shared heart-rending memories of his childhood in Africa; the horrors of being captured – fifty years after slavery was outlawed – and held in the Ouidah barracoons for selection by American slavers; the harrowing ordeal of the Middle Passage aboard the Clotilda with over one hundred other souls; and the years he spent in slavery.

Barracoon brings to life Cudjo’s singular voice in an invaluable contribution to history and culture, a work as poignant as it is profound.

作者简介

佐拉•尼尔•赫斯顿（1891-1960），美国黑人女作家，被誉为“南方的天才”。在美国第一个黑人小城伊顿维尔，赫斯顿度过了无忧无虑的童年；1918年进入霍华德大学就读文学系，1925年来到黑人文学的中心纽约，开始创作生涯，并成为哈莱姆文艺复兴运动的活跃分子。

赫斯顿毕生致力于保持黑人文化传统、探寻黑人完整的生命价值。她收集整理了黑人民间故事集《骡与人》、《告诉我的马》，还写作了四部小说：《他们眼望上苍》、《约拿的葫芦藤》、《摩西，山之人》、《苏旺尼的六翼天使》，一部自传《大路上的尘迹》，以及一些短篇小说。

赫斯顿在小说中大量使用黑人口语，以诗一般的语言去表达黑人语言之美。她的作品并不着眼于种族斗争，而是致力于表现：同其他人种一样，黑人也拥有生活的丰富性和对幸福的追求，也会面对生活中必然存在的不幸和悲剧。

Zora Neale Hurston, the author of Their Eyes Were Watching God, was deemed “one of the greatest writers of our time” by Toni Morrison. With the publication of Lies and Other Tall Tales, The Skill Talks Back, and What’s the Hurry, Fox? new generations will be introduced to Hurston’s legacy. She was born in Notasulga, Alabama, in 1891, and died in 1960.