Morenga: NovelNew Directions Publishing, 2003 - 340 sivua An exciting historical novel set in the early 20th Century, about a black African leader and a bloody civil war in German-occupied Southwest Africa. Morenga, an early novel by Uwe Timm (Headhunter, The Invention of Curried Sausage), engages the mind on many levelshistorical, political, human. Set in German South West Africa in the first decade of the 20th century, it recounts the conflict between the colonial German Empire and the rebellious Africans of the Hottentot and Herero tribes led by the legendary Morenga. A daring and brilliant military tactician referred to as "the Herero bastard," he was fluent in several languages and by all reports a man of compassion, intelligence, and integrity leading his people towards freedom. Even though his revolt is suppressed and by the novel's end he is hunted down and killed, his importance as one of Africa's historic figures is assured. Morenga has a fascinating story and Timm tells it with an ingenious mix of fact and fiction. Recounted through the eyes of Gottschalk, an engaging fictional military veterinarian, the narrative blends quotations from actual historic sources with gripping accounts of everyday life and military excursions. As he has repeatedly shown himself to be, Timm is a master storyteller, and his imagined scenes and characters are as real as the factual material he weaves into the story. The parallels between past events and later German history with its notions of the Untermensch (subhuman) and racial inferiority are subtly brought to mind while significant philosophical, political, and human issues are at play. Morenga is an intriguing novel of scope and significance and it has been well served by Breon Mitchell's fine translation. |
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animals arrived attack bambuse Bansemer Bardowick barrel battle Bethany Bondels brandy bullet camel cannon Cape Colony Cape Town Captain cattle clicks Colonel Deimling Colonial Guard David Christian detachment Dominicus Elschner enemy English eyes Father fire German Gibeon Gorth Gottschalk Gottschalk asked Gottschalk's diary hand Haring head Hendrik Witbooi Herero horse Hottentots Kageneck Karas Mountains Keetmanshoop kilometers Kleinschmidt Klügge Knudsen Koppy Kreft land later living Lüderitz Lukas Major Meisel military mission missionary Morenga morning Morris natives night officers once ordered ostrich oxen patrol Petrus pondoks prisoners pulled rain rebels replied riding rode sand Schwanebach Second Lieutenant shot sitting smell soldiers South West Africa staff standing stared stood strange Stürmann tentots thought tion told traders Treptow Tresckow tribe troopers troops Trotha turned Ukamas Upington UWE TIMM veterinarian village wagon Walvis Bay wanted Warmbad water-hole Wenstrup Windhoek wounded Zeisse