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Inkle and Yarico - Softcover

Gilroy, Beryl

 
9780948833984: Inkle and Yarico
Softcover
ISBN 10: 094883398X ISBN 13: 9780948833984
Verlag: Peepal Tree Press Ltd, 1996

Inhaltsangabe

As a young man of twenty, Thomas Inkle sets out for Barbados to inspect the family sugar estates. On his way he is shipwrecked on a small West Indian island inhabited by Carib Indians. He alone escapes as his shipmates are slaughtered, and is rescued by Yarico, a Carib woman who takes him as, "an ideal, strange and obliging lover". So begins an erotic encounter, explored with a poetic, imaginative intensity, which has a profound effect on both.
Amongst the Caribs, Inkle is a mere child, whose survival depends utterly on Yarico's favour and protection. But when Inkle is rescued and taken with Yarico to the slave island of Barbados, she is entirely at his mercy.
Inkle and Yarico is loosely based on a "true" story which became a much repeated popular narrative in the 17th and 18th centuries. Beryl Gilroy reinterprets its mythic dimensions from both a woman's and a black perspective, but above all she engages the reader in the psychological truths of her characters' experiences.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Beryl Gilroy is the author of numerous books, including the novels The Green Grass Tango and Sunlight on Sweet Water and the Nippers series for children.

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Verlag
Peepal Tree Press Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
1996
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
094883398X
ISBN 13 
9780948833984
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
160
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