D'Aguiar, Fred *1960
Feeding the Ghosts, 1997 - Information about the Book
- General Information
- Feeding the Ghosts, based on a true story, lays bare the raw business of the slave trade. The Zong, a slave ship packed with captive African “stock,” is headed to the New World.
The novel was inspired by a visit D'Aguiar made to the Merseyside Maritime Museum in Liverpool and based on the true story of a slave who survived being thrown overboard with 132 other men, women and children from a slave ship in the Atlantic.
- Feeding the Ghosts, based on a true story, lays bare the raw business of the slave trade. The Zong, a slave ship packed with captive African “stock,” is headed to the New World.
- Articles
- The Sea as a Confluence of Horror and Memory in Fred D’Aguiar’s Feeding the Ghosts
- Colonial Massacres and the Politics of Memory
- Memories of the bodies, the sea, and the land: " D'Aguiar's treatment of slavery does not ay claim to objectivity, accuracy, and verisimilitude. D'Aguiar cleverly deploys the tension between historical truth and narrative truth as a primary source of the novel's narrative energy." Susanne Pichler; 2007