Crown Jewel - Couverture rigide

Boissiere, Ralph De

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0850312922 ISBN 13 : 9780850312928

Editeur : Allison & Busby, 1981

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

When it was published in Britain after Salman Rushdie praised it. De Boissiere's best-known novel, Crown Jewel, is a story of the economic struggle of Trinidad workers in the 1930s and is regarded as one of the major political novels of the Caribbean. It is set in the 1930s at the time of the Butler riots in the oilfields of south Trinidad part of the general disturbances in the British Caribbean during the 1930s. Set in his native Trinidad in the 1930s, Crown Jewel describes intricate social and racial gradations. At the bottom of the society are the blacks at the top are the colonial elite, the English. Crown Jewel climaxes with the 1937 workers' revolt in Trinidad in which workers were shot by police. One of the characters in Crown Jewel, Andre de Courdnay, a young musician who works as a yeast salesman, is torn between an Englishwoman, the daughter of a judge, and the woman he actually loves, the teenage daughter of a Venezuelan seamstress. This young coloured girl has a fierce belief in de Courdnay as an artist capable of creating social change. What distinguishes de Boissiere's characters from so much political art is that they aren't two-dimensional. He understands the complexity of the human heart. When Crown Jewel was first published in the UK (1981) Allison and Busby announced Crown Jewel as "one of the lost masterpieces of not only for the West Indies but for all oppressed humanity," and "one of the lost masterpieces of world literature. Crown Jewel was republished in 2006 by Lux-Verbi Books. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data: De Boissiere, Ralph Crown Jewel 1. Strikes and lockouts - Oil industry - Trinidad and Tobago - Fiction 2. Riots - Trinidad and Tobago - Fiction 3. Social stratification - Trinidad and Tobago - Fiction I. Title 813.5'4[F] ISBN-10: 0954359623 Also reviewed in: 1. Encyclopedia of Latin American and Caribbean Literature, 1900-2003 - Page 173 by Daniel Balderston, Mike Gonzalez - Reference - 2004 - 560 pages 2. Studies in Commonwealth Literature: Papers Presented at the Commonwealth ... - Page 123 by Breitinger, Eckhard, Reinhard W. Sander, 3. University Bayreuth - Literary Criticism Meanjin Quarterly - Page 416 by University of Melbourne - 1976 4. Caribbean Writers: A Bio-bibliographical-critical Encyclopedia - Page 66 by Lubin, Maurice Alcibiade, 1917-, Donald E. Herdeck, Margaret Herdeck - Literary Criticism - 1979 - 963 pages 5. The Stranger from Melbourne: Frank Hardy - A Literary Biography, 1944-1975 - Page 55 by Adams, Paul - Political Science 1999 6. Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience - Page 1179 by Henry Louis Gates, Anthony Appiah - Social Science - 1999 - 2095 pages 7. Critical Perspectives on Sam Selvon - Page 45 by Susheila Nasta - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 285 pages 8. The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English - Page 240 by Ian Ousby - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 1067 pages 9. A History of Literature in the Caribbean - Page 91 by Albert James Arnold, Vera M. Kutzinski, Ineke Phaf-Rheinberger - 2001 - 677 pages 10. International Who's Who of Authors and Writers 2004 - Page 135 by Elizabeth Sleeman - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 608 pages 11. Encyclopedia of Literature and Politics: Censorship, Revolution, and Writing - Page 191 by M. Keith Booker - 2005 - 935 pages 12. Cambridge Paperback Guide to Literature in English - Page 105 by Ian Ousby - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 444 pages 13. New Community, British Community Relations Commission, Commission for Racial Equality, European Researcher.

Revue de presse

De Boissiere's best-known novels are Crown Jewel, set in the 1930s at the time of the Butler riots in the oilfields of south Trinidad--part of the general disturbances in the British Caribbean in the 1930s--and Rum and Coca Cola, which takes place during the Second World War when thousands of American soldiers came to Trinidad to build and man military bases. University of the West Indies Professor Ken Ramchand says "De Boissiere's work combines social realism and political commitment with a concern for the culture of the feeling within the individual in a way that is unique not only among West Indian writers but among writers with a social conscience anywhere in the world." Ramchand stresses that Crown Jewel and Rum and Coca Cola are essential reading for an understanding of the rich possibilities of young Trinidad in the 1930s and 1940s and the subtle makings of what renowned WI writer Sam Selvon called "the Trinidadian person." The book made its way to Eastern Europe, where it was translated into six or seven languages, and also found its way home to Trinidad. In 1982, it was published in Britain after Salman Rushdie praised it... and... it received a good review in the New York Review of Books." -- Anthony Milne. has worked as a journalist with Trinidad Express newspapers since July 1981, covering politics, parliament and just about everything else under the sun. --Anthony Milne, journalist - Trinidad Express

The Tribune declared, 'De Boissiere has created an art work.' The Voices described Crown Jewel as Trinidad's "most important political novel... the fundamental work of fiction in our society" --The Tribune, September 1957; Voices, 1973, p. 3. See p. 157 of Fifty Caribbean Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook.

... de Boissiere s work, 'combines social realism and political commitment with a concern for the culture of the feeling within the individual in a way that is unique not only among West Indian writers but among writers with a social conscience anywhere in the world.' Prof. Ramchand adds 'Crown Jewel is essential reading for an understanding of the rich possibilities of young Trinidad in the 1930s and 1940s and the subtle makings of what renowned West Indian writer, Sam Selvon, called "the Trinidadian.' --Professor, Ken Ramchand - University of the West Indies, renamed the University of Trinidad and Tobago.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Allison & Busby
• Date d'édition: 1981
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0850312922
• ISBN 13: 9780850312928
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 364
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible