Looking for Livingstone
By: M. NourbeSe Philip (CA)
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A woman, travelling alone through time, Africa, and unnamed lands, searches for Dr. David Livingstone, celebrated by the West as a "discoverer" of Africa. Throughout her quest, for knowledge and for Livingstone, the traveller visits many peoples, listens to their stories and their silences, and learns about their Silence. Suspense, parables, and dreams play major parts of the story twists and turns toward the traveller's confrontation with Livingstone-I presume.
Looking for Livingstone explodes Western assumptions about the "silence" of indigenous peoples; this is on elegant and compelling novel which beautifully gives voice to the ancestors to whom it is dedicated.
This narrative in poetry and prose was published in 1991 by The Mercury Press. This new edition features a new introduction from the author and an afterword by Michael Nardone.
