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A carregar... Buffalo Soldier (2014)por Tanya Landman
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Really enjoyed this book. Strong female character, who is a survivor in an environment that oppresses and abuses. It is her journey to discover what freedom means as she escapes a life as a slave and joins the army under the guise of a male. The horrors she lives through and the treatment by the army for being an African American is testament to her resilience. Love and loss so closely connected in this story. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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"What kind of a girl steals the clothes from a dead man's back and runs off to join the army? A desperate one. That's who. At the end of the American Civil War, Charley - a young African-American slave from the deep south - is ostensibly freed. But then her adopted mother is raped and lynched at the hands of a mob and Charley is left alone. In a terrifyingly lawless land, where the colour of a person's skin can bring violent death, Charley disguises herself as a man and joins the army. Soon she's being sent to the prairies to fight a whole new war against the 'savage Indians'. Trapped in a world of injustice and inequality, it's only when Charley is posted to Apache territory that she begins to learn what it is to be truly free"--Publishers website http://www.walker.co.uk. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Told in crisp and unornamented style from the viewpoint of the main character, this story ranges from an antebellum Georgia plantation to the American west, as Charlotte -- who becomes Charley early on -- takes on a male identity for protection and survival, drifts into the U.S. Cavalry almost by chance, and ends up with one of the Black cavalry units that saw action during the Indian Wars.
Readers familiar with the general shape of the era will recognize some of the historical events, but Landman has wisely kept the telling strictly within the view of a cavalry trooper who has little or no awareness of the significance of individual battles and troop movements. As Charley O'Hara continues day-to-day survival within the troop, she slowly changes from viewing all Indians as just an amorphous enemy to seeing them as individuals fighting to maintain their traditional ways of life, and further begins to understand that "freedom" -- particularly freedom based on skin color -- can be a very elusive thing.
One might quibble at the coincidental meeting that leads Charley to the final action that shapes her future, but it's a small price to pay within a fresh and powerful story. ( )