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008 960409s1996 mau 000 1 eng
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050 00 $aPS3573.I26$bC38 1996
082 00 $a813/.54$220
100 1 $aWideman, John Edgar.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82231445
245 14 $aThe cattle killing /$cJohn Edgar Wideman.
260 $aBoston :$bHoughton Mifflin,$c1996.
300 $a212 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
520 $aIn plague-ridden eighteenth-century Philadelphia, a young black itinerant preacher searches for a mysterious, endangered African woman. His struggle to find her and save them both plummets him into the nightmare of a society violently splitting itself into white and black, white over black.
520 8 $aSpiraling outward from its core image of the Xhosa people's ritual destruction of their herd in a vain attempt to resist European domination - the cattle killing - the novel expands its narrator's search for meaning and love into the America, England, and South Africa of yesterday and today.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$zPennsylvania$zPhiladelphia$xHistory$y18th century$vFiction.
650 0 $aAfrican American clergy$zPennsylvania$zPhiladelphia$vFiction.
650 0 $aAfricans$zPennsylvania$zPhiladelphia$vFiction.
650 0 $aAfrican American families$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100670
650 0 $aRace relations$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008110343
655 7 $aHistorical fiction.$2gsafd
655 7 $aDomestic fiction.$2lcgft$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2014026295
852 00 $bglx$hPS3573.I26$iC38 1996