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As Flies to Whatless Boys

2013-09-03 Fiction
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Release : 2013-09-03
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 561/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis As Flies to Whatless Boys by : Robert Antoni

Download or read book As Flies to Whatless Boys written by Robert Antoni. This book was released on 2013-09-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1845, British engineer John Adolphus Etzler invented machines to transform the division of labour and sent Londoners to form a utopian community in Trinidad. One recruit is a young boy, Willy, who helps build the society's future home in a remote swamp. Far from realising Etzler's dream of paradise, most are stricken with the 'Black Vomit'. Willy and his father make a final attempt to fix a wrecked boat, but Willy's father falls ill and dies. Willy must decide whether return home with Marguerite, who he loves, or become the head of his family in their new home.

Divina Trace

1993-03-01 Fiction
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Release : 1993-03-01
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 853/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Divina Trace by : Robert Antoni

Download or read book Divina Trace written by Robert Antoni. This book was released on 1993-03-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed novel of Caribbean magic and language.

Illustrious Exile

2006 Fiction
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Release : 2006
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis Illustrious Exile by : Andrew O. Lindsay

Download or read book Illustrious Exile written by Andrew O. Lindsay. This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 1786, the Scottish poet Robert Burns, penniless and needing to escape the consequences of his complicated love life, accepted the position of book-keeper on an estate in Jamaica. The success of his Poems chiefly in the Scottish Dialect made this escape unnecessary. Thus far is historical fact. In Andrew Lindsay's novel, Burns indeed goes to Jamaica and then to the Dutch colony of Demerara where, into the world of sugar and slavery, he brought his propensity for falling in love, his humanity and his urge to write poetry. In 1997 a small mahogany chest is found in a Wai Wai Amerindian village in Guyana. It contains Burns' journal from 1786 to 1796, when he died." "Andrew Lindsay's novel is a work of imaginative invention, poetic description and meticulous historical reconstruction. As a fellow Scot who has settled in Guyana, Lindsay brings an incomer's fresh eye to the Caribbean landscape and imaginative insights into how Burns as a man of his times might have responded to slavery. Not least, Illustrious Exile contains some brilliant versions of Burns' poems, as written in the Caribbean."--BOOK JACKET.

Edinburgh Companion to Atlantic Literary Studies

2016-09-20 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2016-09-20
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 287/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Edinburgh Companion to Atlantic Literary Studies by : Leslie Eckel

Download or read book Edinburgh Companion to Atlantic Literary Studies written by Leslie Eckel. This book was released on 2016-09-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New and original collection of scholarly essays examining the literary complexities of the Atlantic world systemThis Companion offers a critical overview of the diverse and dynamic field of Atlantic literary studies, with contributions by distinguished scholars on a series of topics that define the area. The essays focus on literature and culture from first contact to the present, exploring fruitful Atlantic connections across space and time, across national cultures, and embracing literature, culture and society. This research collection proposes that the analysis of literature and culture does not depend solely upon geographical setting to uncover textual meaning. Instead, it offers Atlantic connections based around migration, race, gender and sexuality, ecologies, and other significant ideological crossovers in the Atlantic World. The result is an exciting new critical map written by leading international researchers of a lively and expanding field. Key FeaturesOffers an introduction to the growing field of Atlantic literary studies by showcasing current work engaged in debate around historical, cultural and literary issues in the Atlantic WorldIncludes 26 newly-commissioned scholarly essays by leading experts in Atlantic literary studiesFuses breadth of historical knowledge with depth of literary scholarshipConsiders the full range of intercultural encounters around and across the Atlantic Ocean

Tracing Jaja

2016 Fiction
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Release : 2016
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 993/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Tracing Jaja by : Tony Kellman

Download or read book Tracing Jaja written by Tony Kellman. This book was released on 2016. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the life of accomplished merchant prince King Ja Ja of Opobo, Anthony Kellman has created a rich and warm work of historical fiction. Posited as the main obstacle to British imperial interests in the palm oil-rich Niger delta, once omnipotent King Ja Ja is exiled to the West Indies for the final four years of his life. Focuses on the last four months of Jaja's life and the ironies of his position in Barbados where Whites dominated all aspects of life and race prejudice was nakedly expressed, but where many Black Barbadians were piqued to discover the presence of an African king amongst them. Weaving between the official records and the satirical and cynical traditions of the Tuk song. Traces the emerging love between an ailing African king in exile and his Barbadian servant Becka which brings new life to his battered body and spirit, and the Barbadian landscape lifts his despair, the king never loses his sense of the injustice done to him or gives up his desire to return home.

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