Jacko Jacobus

Kwame Dawes

ISBN 10: 1900715066 / ISBN 13: 9781900715065

Edité par Peepal Tree Press 07/01/1997, 1997

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• Titre: Jacko Jacobus
• Éditeur: Peepal Tree Press 07/01/1997
• Date de parution: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1900715066
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781900715065
• Reliure: Paperback
• État de l'article: Very Good

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Synopsis

Poor sower of seeds with a gift for dreaming, Jacko Jacobus knows that his destiny is to found a people to shake the nations. But when he has to flee Jamaica to escape his brother's wrath, he finds himself pushing crack for his Uncle Al in South Carolina. In writing his dub version of the myth of Jacob and Esau, Kwame Dawes builds on a gripping narrative of prophecy, love, deceit and murder to address contemporary Caribbean realities; and in portraying the conflict between Jacko's trickster, anancy inventiveness and the narrow righteousness of his brother Eric's path, he explores the universal tensions between Jacko's sense of duty as the chosen instrument of God, and his desire to make his own way, whatever the consequences.

Kwame Dawes is widely acknowledged as the foremost Caribbean poet of the post-Walcott generation. He currently holds the position of Distinguished Poet In Residence and Louise Fry Scudder Professor of Liberal Arts at the University of South Carolina.

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Kwame Dawes is the author of over thirty five books, and is widely recognized as one of the Caribbean’s leading writers. He is Glenna Luschei Editor of Prairie Schooner and a Chancellor’s Professor of English at the University of Nebraska.