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Yaka / Pepetela ; translated from the Portuguese by Marga Holness.
- Title
- Yaka / Pepetela ; translated from the Portuguese by Marga Holness.
- Author
- Pepetela
- Publication
- Oxford ; Portsmouth, NH, USA : Heinemann, 1996.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Holness, Marga
- Description
- ix, 307; 20 cm.
- Summary
- The white community in Benguela in 1890 was an explosive mixture of ex-convicts, political exiles, republicans, anarchists and colonial officials. Most were united only in their fear of uprisings and a desire to get rich quick. Through the saga of the Semedo family, Yaka gives a panoramic view of events that shaped Angola over the following century. From the nineteenth century penal colony, through slavery, African uprisings and land expropriation, Yaka charts the formation of a nation. The enigmatic Yaka statue owned by the Semedo family provides an unexpected commentary.
- Series Statement
- African writers series
- Uniform Title
- Yaka. English
- African writers series
- Alternative Title
- Yaka.
- Subject
- Angola > History > Fiction
- Genre/Form
- Domestic fiction.
- Domestic fiction
- Fiction
- History
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 0435909622
- LCCN
- gb^97023841^
- OCLC
- 34698449
- SCSB-11225240
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library