The Counting House - Couverture souple

Dabydeen, David

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1845230159 ISBN 13 : 9781845230159

Editeur : Peepal Tree Press Ltd, 2005

Synopsis

Issues of caste, slavery, racism, and the immigrant experience in the early 19th century are addressed in this novel. Rohini and Vidia, a young married couple struggling for survival in a small, caste-ridden Indian village are seduced by a recruiter's persuasive talk of easy work and plentiful land. They sign up as indentured laborers to go to British Guiana and discover their harsh fate as "bound coolies" in a country only just emerging from the savage brutalities of slavery. In their problematic encounters with the Afro-Guyanese, hostile to immigrant labor, they confront the truths of their uprooted condition and learn to live with their fate.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

David Dabydeen is the director of the Center for Caribbean Studies and a professor at the Center for British Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Warwick. He is also Guyana's ambassador-at-large and a member of UNESCO's executive board. He is the author of A Harlot's Progress and Turner, and the poetry collection Slave Song, which won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Peepal Tree Press Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1845230159
• ISBN 13: 9781845230159
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 179
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