Here - Couverture souple

Ramcharitar, Raymond

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1845232127 ISBN 13 : 9781845232122

Editeur : Peepal Tree Press Ltd, 2013

Synopsis

Here is a book-length autobiographical poem in five parts, addressing the large themes of the Caribbean experience: history, migration, myth, and domestic love.<>br<>br Here marks the first poetic approach to re-visioning and recreating Caribbean mythology on an epic scale, which remains dominated by Kamau Brathwaite s Arrivants and Derek Walcott s Another Life.

The different movements of Here vary in style and tone (from blank verse, to terza rima, to heroic couplets), but are unified by the voice of the single narrator, which changes over time. Here is prefaced by a passage from the Ramayana and the poem begins on the plains of Caroni, where the narrator traces his beginnings.

From this start, the poem moves to an overnight bus journey through Europe, a sojourn in Toronto, and an account of a broken marriage, addressed to the narrator s daughter. The series of poems ends with The Last Avatar , a mini-epic which re-casts the Caribbean as a Hindu eschatological myth, and places its heroes as the holy trinity, of Brahma, Shiva and Vishnu in Caribbean terms.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Raymond Ramcharitar is a writer, a journalist, and a cultural critic from Trinidad. He is the author of a controversial study of the Trinidadian media, "Breaking the News: Media and Culture in Trinidad," the short story collection "The Island Quintet," and the poetry collection "American Fall."

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Peepal Tree Press Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1845232127
• ISBN 13: 9781845232122
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 64
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible