![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The salvation of the young Bernardine will come through the theater she discovered at the age of 12 by accompanying her sister to rehearsals in a disused church. The hostility of the neighbors had led the Evaristo parents to forbid their children to play in the street. The novelist remembers that her maternal family had cut ties with her mother, because the latter had married a black man and that the panes of the windows of their Victorian pavilion were often broken by the children of the neighborhood who took malicious pleasure in throwing regularly throwing bricks around the house, yelling racial slurs. ![]() In her recent memoir, she recounts at length her experience of growing up in a mixed-race family, at a time when racial discrimination was not yet criminalized. Her seventh novel Mr Lovermanwhich has just been published in French translation, is carried by this assured writing, mixing poetry and prose and exploring the experience of the black diaspora, which has become the trademark of this author.īorn in 1959 to an Irish mother and a father of Nigerian origin, Bernardine Evaristo grew up in Woolwich, a working-class suburb, south of London. With nine books to her credit, she is the author of an impressive, resolutely experimental body of work, composed of novels in verse, feminist stories, novels of manners, “road novel” and a memoir entitled Manifesto, his most recent publication. So says Bernardine Evaristo, the great lady of British letters. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |