The cattle killing

Summary: A surrealistic novel on the black experience. The action is in the form of vignettes and ranges from cattle killing by the Xhosa in Africa, believing this will drive the whites away, to a black bishop in Philadelphia taking his flock out of the white man's church.

Item details

ISBN: 0395785901
ISBN: 9780395785904
ISBN: 0395877504
ISBN: 9780395877500
Physical Description: print
212 pages ; 22 cm
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1996.

Contents / Notes

Awards Note:

Society of American Historians James Fenimore Cooper Prize, 1997.

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African Americans Fiction
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Genre:

Domestic fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Historical fiction.
Domestic fiction.

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