Reviews tagging 'Blood'

An African in Greenland by Tété-Michel Kpomassie

6 reviews

jaan's review against another edition

emotional informative lighthearted reflective medium-paced

3.75

VERY interesting. For me, Kpomassie’s wit and storytelling capability really shine when he is documenting his experience learning and acclimating to Inuit diet and hunting practices; and when he is describing Greenland’s natural landscape, including the arctic days and nights, the sea, the ice, and the aurora borealis.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Racial slurs

Moderate: Domestic abuse and Sexual violence

Kpomassie wrote this travelogue during the 1950s, at which point the widespread practice was to refer to native Greenlanders as “Esk*mos,” rather than as Inuit. The slur is all over the book.

morebedsidebooks's review

slow-paced

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Blood

Moderate: Sexual assault, Domestic abuse, Racial slurs, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Colonisation, Death, Child death, Excrement, Murder, Pregnancy, and Racism

Other content includes poverty, polygamy, and proselytization. Various treatment towards animals and food preparation, including of animals is described in graphic detail.

jasschumacher's review against another edition

adventurous informative medium-paced

3.0

What made me read a book about a Togolese man travelling to Greenland? Perhaps I also have Fernweh. I'm glad I do and just as glad to have read this book. This is an interesting and impactful personal account of two cultures meeting for the first time.

"I was now convinced that I was living among people no different from any other men on this earth [...]." (pg. 208)

"[...] I had never missed my native Africa, for the poetry of movement of the ice froze up the muggy heat of my native tropics. I had adapted so well to Greenland that I believed nothing could stop me spending the rest of my days there." (pg. 297)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Racial slurs, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, and Blood

seanamcphie's review

adventurous challenging informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Death, Domestic abuse, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Colonisation, Excrement, Injury/Injury detail, Racial slurs, and Suicide

katiewhocanread's review against another edition

adventurous challenging slow-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Blood

Moderate: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Child death, Excrement, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, and Xenophobia

Minor: Child abuse, Incest, and Slavery

literaryrevisited's review against another edition

adventurous inspiring medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death and Blood

Minor: Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Colonisation, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, and Sexual content