Mandingo (novel)

Mandingo (novel)
Mandingo  
Author(s) Kyle Onstott
Language English
Genre(s) Fiction
Publication date 1957

Mandingo is a novel written in 1957 by Kyle Onstott. The book is set in the 1830s in the antebellum South primarily around Falconhurst, a fictional plantation in Alabama owned by the planter Warren Maxwell. The narrative centers on Maxwell, his son Hammond, and the Mandingo (or Mandinka) slave Ganymede, or Mede. It is a tale of cruelty toward the blacks of that time, containing vicious fights, poisoning, and violent death.

The book inspired the 1975 film Mandingo (though the movie strayed away in a number of places from the book) and a series of books over the next three decades, some of which were co-written by Lance Horner and in later years written by Ashley Carter.

Criticism

  • Tim A. Ryan, Calls and Responses: The American Novel of Slavery since Gone with the Wind. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 2008.

See also

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