Charles Beadle

Witch-Doctors (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"Witch-Doctors" by Charles Beadle is set against the backdrop of colonial Africa, exploring power dynamics, superstition, and conflict. The story begins in a colonial outpost near Victoria Nyanza, where tensions between white settlers and native inhabitants are at their peak. The narrative centers on tribal customs and the influential role of witch-doctors in shaping both spiritual and political life. As the plot unfolds, we encounter the stark contrast between the arrogance of the colonial officers and the deeply rooted traditions of indigenous communities. The colonizers seek to control the native population through manipulation of their beliefs, while tribal leaders struggle to maintain power in a world where magic and politics are deeply intertwined. Through its exploration of tribal rivalries and alliances, the story delves into the complex web of manipulation, faith, and colonial power, setting the stage for conflict and intrigue. The opening establishes a world where the supernatural influences everyday life, and characters must navigate the dangerous balance between tradition and foreign domination. This tale promises to reveal how superstition and colonialism collide in the struggle for control and survival.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Double 9 Books
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789369074754
• Artikelnr.: 73568774

Autorenporträt

The author of eight novels and dozens of short stories, CHARLES BEADLE was a world traveler who was born at sea in 1881. When he was eighteen years old he expatriated from England and spent a dozen years exploring South Africa, Rhodesia, Zambia, Uganda, the Congo, Mozambique, Borneo, and Morocco. In his mid-twenties he organized an expedition to Fez and traveled there disguised as a dancing girl to interview the sultan of Morocco. In the 1910s he lived in Montmartre, where he befriended his neighbor Beatrice Hastings, the mistress of Modigliani and translator of Max Jacob. Modigliani later portrayed Beadle in a drawing titled Le Pelerin ("The Pilgrim"), which may have been a reference to Beadle's first banned book, A Passionate Pilgrimage. During World War I he traveled to the United States, where he published his stories in Adventure and in the International, a cultural journal edited by Aleister Crowley. He returned to the City of Light in the fall of 1919, where he lived throughout most of the 1920s, eventually moving to the French Riviera. In 1938 Jack Kahane's Obelisk Press published Beadle's last novel, Dark Refuge: an unrecognized modern masterpiece that quickly fell into obscurity. It contains thinly disguised portraits of Modigliani, Max Jacob, Beatrice Hastings, Léopold Zborowski, and various other figures who haunted the Parisian demimonde of this period. Beadle's brazen portrayal of drug fueled pansexual orgies prevented the chronicle from being distributed in the Anglo-Saxon world despite its literary merit and lyrical beauty. In 1941 Faber and Faber published Artist Quarter, a nonfiction work pseudonymously coauthored by Beadle with Douglas Goldring, which is still considered to be the urtext of Modigliani biography.