![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What makes these allusions so startling is that Jasper is a recently freed slave in 17th-century America. On defeating the beast, he is awarded the land he liberated for "him and the issue of his bodyįorever after." So too does Jasper triumph over his spirit-monster, winning the right to carve out a home for his family. It also rings with similarities to the opening of the Scottish writer Lewis Grassic Gibbon's classic novel "Sunset Song," in which a landless traveler does battle with a Gryphon. He chains the spirit to the bottom of a lake in an episode that calls to mind Beowulf's underwater clash with Grendel's mother. In the opening pages of Calvin Baker's third novel, "Dominion," Jasper Merian battles an evil spirit to win dominion over his newly acquired land. It's been a little while since then, so I thought I'd post it here also with the hopes of persuading a few more folks to give Mr. It was published in the Raleigh News & Observer on August 13 2006. I wrote a review a little while back of Calvin Baker's novel, Dominion. Well, it's not quite officially ended.Duma Kartaginy - Polish Pride of Carthage. ![]()
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