Title: Dossouye
Title Record # 979456
Author: Charles R. Saunders
Date: 2008-00-00
Type: NOVEL
Series: Dossouye
Series Number: 1
Webpages: reindeermotel.com, Wikipedia-EN
Language: English
Current Tags: Ahosi (1), fantasy (1), female warrior (1), female circumcision (1), African (1), female protagonist (1) Add Tags
Author: Charles R. Saunders
Date: 2008-00-00
Type: NOVEL
Series: Dossouye
Series Number: 1
Webpages: reindeermotel.com, Wikipedia-EN
Language: English
Note: According to the author's Web site, this is a fix-up of previously published stories organized as a "picaresque novel".
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- Chapter List and some notes (not spoilers)
- 1 – "Agbewe's Sword": Two cultures, the Abanti and Abomea, battle with sorcery and buffalo mounts. Dossouye is introduced, chosen via a bokono dream, and eventually exiled in a unique way.
- 2 – "Gimmile's Songs": A chance encounter with cursed magician/musician and thieves that follow him.
- 3— "Shiminege's Mask": (draws short straw to be sacrificed to a sichi (akin to a immortal vampire?)..who were destroyed mostly by Dossouye's ancestors and war bulls
- 4— "Yahimba's Choice": Tarusi (realized forms of mens' fear of girls not getting circumcised) take center stage. Best story in the set. With Saunders already infusing black history into dark fantasy, with this collection he strived to go further by taking on a woman's character. From the outset, I had in mind doing some type of Bechdel-Test (one measure of how well women are portrayed in movie scripts in relation to male dominance). For this, I mentally noted how much Dossouye was just a "chick-in-chainmail"; ie how often did her gender really play a role in the story and not just be easily replaced/switched for a male stand-in. Although female issues are mentioned throughout, it wasn't until this chapter did Saunder's hit his stride across the board: African culture & myths, Dossouye's gender, and classic Sword & Sorcery (battles with supernatural) all synchronize.
- 5 – "Marwe's Forest:" A shapechanger confronts/seduces Dossouye
- 6 – "Obenga's Drum:" Embiti (pygmy/dwarves) are saved by Dossouye, but then she is injured and traverses another bokono dream
Current Tags: Ahosi (1), fantasy (1), female warrior (1), female circumcision (1), African (1), female protagonist (1) Add Tags
Publications
| Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dossouye | 2008-00-00 | Charles R. Saunders | Sword and Soul Media | $19.95?$: US dollar |
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
novel | Mshindo Kuumba |