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The Horns

Jill Baker

出版	Porcupine Press, 2018
ISBN	19284551159781928455110
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=WnE-vwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

A deeply personal account of being born into what was first Southern Rhodesia, then Rhodesia. Jill Baker grew up as a white child whose best playmates, until she went to school, were three black children. The paths each of their lives took could not have been more divergent. The Horns is founded on careful historical research into the valuable, but scarce, generational Matebele and Mashona oral histories; the vastly differing and biased accounts from early missionaries, pioneers, hunters, miners and traders; and records from the British South Africa Company, as well as government and parliamentary archives. The historical skeleton holds this story firmly in place. What is fictional is for the author to know - and for you the reader to guess. The Horns is presented as storytelling - oral storytelling - as practised in the passing on of oral history in African culture, sometimes indulging in the nostalgic prose of cherished memories, sometimes in the practical narration of the observations of young children making mud cattle, the terror of a teenager in acute distress, or the wise words of experience and learning from an older generation.