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The Hills Were Joyful Together - Couverture souple

Mais, Roger

 
9781845231002: The Hills Were Joyful Together
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1845231007 ISBN 13 : 9781845231002
Editeur : Peepal Tree Press Ltd, 2016

Synopsis


Struggling to survive in the Kingston tenement yard, Surjue falls under the spell of the trickster figure Flitters. Arrested for robbery, he finds himself sentenced to the appalling world of a Jamaican colonial prison, far from his woman, surrounded by his suffering people.

This is a brutal and stark novel, full of Mais s prophetic rage and railing against the imprisonment felt both inside and outside jail. And whilst the novel displays an unflinching and deeply distressing realism, it is unquestionably also a work of art with a genuinely tragic vision.

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À propos de l'auteur

Roger Mais (1905-1955) was born into a comfortable, educated middleclass Jamaican family. He was swept up in the riots and workers rebellion of 1938, and thereafter was a wholly committed activist and Jamaican nationalist. His 1944 critique of Churchill s imperialist ideology, Now We Know, brought Mais to court and he was sentenced to six months in prison for sedition. The Hills Were Joyful Together was originally published in 1951, followed by Brother Man in 1954 and Black Lightning in 1955. He was posthumously awarded the Order of Jamaica in 1978.

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Éditeur
Peepal Tree Press Ltd
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1845231007
ISBN 13 
9781845231002
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
320
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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