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Author: Alfred Hubert Mendes
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Published: 2002
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9789766401177
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Portuguese Creole author Alfred H. Mendes was an important member of the Beacon Group of writers in Trinidad in the 1930s. His autobiography offers a private perspective of the man behind a popular West Indian personality, and includes annotations and an introduction by Michele Levy.
Author: Alfred Hubert Mendes
Publisher: University of the West Indies Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 224
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlfred H. Mendes was a member of the Beacon group of writers in Trinidad in the 1930s and friend and colleague of C.L.R. James and Ralph de Boissiere. He was a prolific writer, with a distinctive and engaging voice, and he wrote a significant number of short stories, many of which have never been published and most of which were written between 1920 and 1940. "The Man Who Ran Away" is a collection of twelve stories with an introduction and short glossary of Trinidadian Creole words and phrases. The book is useful as a text for university literature courses, with an introduction designed for students unfamiliar with Mendes's work, but not so dauntingly academic as to discourage a general readership.
Author: L. Rosenberg
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-04-30
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 1137099224
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book tells the story of how intellectuals in the English-speaking Caribbean first created a distinctly Caribbean and national literature. As traditionally told, this story begins in the 1950s with the arrival and triumph of V.S. Naipaul, George Lamming, and their peers in the London literary scene. However, Afro-Caribbeans were writing literature already in the 1840s as part of larger movements for political rights, economic opportunity, and social status. Rosenberg offers a history of this first one hundred years of anglophone Caribbean literature and a critique of Caribbean literary studies that explains its neglect. A historically contextualized study of both canonical and noncanonical writers, this book makes the case that the few well-known Caribbean writers from this earlier period, Claude McKay, Jean Rhys, and C.L.R. James, participated in a larger Caribbean literary movement that directly contributed to the rise of nationalism in the region. This movement reveals the prominence of Indian and other immigrant groups, of feminism, and of homosexuality in the formation of national literatures.
Author: Michael A. Bucknor
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011-06-14
Total Pages: 690
ISBN-13: 1136821740
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Companion is divided into six sections that provide an introduction to and critical history of the field, discussions of key texts and a critical debate on major topics such as the nation, race, gender and migration. In the final section contributors examine the material dissemination of Caribbean literature and point towards the new directions that Caribbean literature and criticism are taking.
Author: Diana Hinojosa
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Published: 2011-01
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9780615426556
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPablo's Fandango is an endearing story about a special boy who discovers the cycle of life when he stumbles upon a lifeless animal. He embarks upon a journey through the Sierra Madre and soon discovers a tradition on the brink of extinction. With his grandfather's help, he revives a centuries old genre of Mexican folk music, and through it, his love for animals inspires an unexpected surprise for the entire village.
Author: Frederick Asals
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 296
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Intriguing and Fresh Material Brought to Light in These Essays on Malcolm Lowry is sure to stimulate discussion and debate. With the publication of Under the Volcano, Lowry became a cult hero in literary circles on both sides of the Atlantic. This fascinating collection explores the life of the man -- including memoirs by people Lowry knew at important stages of his life -- and offers critical insight into his writings, including novels, poetry, and letters, three written when he was a schoolboy and undergraduate and two that he wrote in the last months of his troubled life. The essays in A Darkness that Murmured focus on a variety of issues: the literary manifestations of Lowry's tortured sexuality; notions of 'degeneracy' and 'degeneration' using contemporary theories of Havelock Ellis's; Lowry's travel fiction as the expression of 'intellectual migration' across class barriers; 'anxiety of influence' and the critical problem of Lowry's plagiarism. These essays, while diverse in approach and content, hang together remarkably well -- this is not only a collection of excellent essays but an excellent collection of essays. An essential addition to Lowry studies, this volume will captivate Lowry specialists and general readers alike.
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 448
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: James Kelly
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Published: 2019-06-05
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9781773709369
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn Christmas Eve 1981, the brutal slaying of a 'Ndrangheta enforcer in a Hamilton parking lot sends shockwaves through a tough working-class community and separates two childhood friends. Marty settles in Calgary for a time--his family slowly disintegrating under the strain--while what's left of Matt's family tries to come to grips with their loss and make a new start in nearby St. Catharines. Five years later, Matt and Marty cross paths again in Toronto and pick up their friendship where they left off . Now tough, brash, and quick on their feet, the two of them are soon living off their wits and up to their necks in small-time scams, the occasional well-planned heist, and anything that can make them a quick buck. But when Marty comes up with a scam that will land them more money than either of them have ever seen, they know it will mean upping their game. It will also mean enlisting the help of heavy Hamilton mafia connections they'd previously avoided. Set in the fall of 1990--and drawing loose inspiration from real life events--Pablo Fandango is the first in a series of Marty Ronan novels.
Author: Arthur James Wells
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 1270
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