Peepal tree press jun 2014 (5 Ergebnisse)
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this collection, Millicent Graham focuses on memory and the idea of home, while questioning the very nature of home as both a physical and emotional space. There are comforts--the landscape, the vegetation, the food, the playground, the hand of parents, the romantic escapades--and there ar…e the disquiets--the bullying, the violence, the fearfulness, the failure of memory, the losses. In these very intimate poems, Graham marks out a distinct poetic territory for herself with an immediately recognizable voice, an assured handling of language and image, and the sensation that she is adding to the corpus of Caribbean poetry in important ways. Graham, has, in this book, made good on her indebtedness to her fascination with the elliptical and image-heavy verse of Tony McNeill, and the lyrical, lushness of story and memory in the poetry of Lorna Goodison. It is possible to see an army of poetic influences in these two Jamaican poets, and Graham carries all these influences inside of her, while sounding only like herself. Her work is guided first by her desire to write her home, both the actual and physical world of Jamaica, and her other home, her equally rich imaginative and poetic home.
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - With his dexterity as a writer, Kendel Hippolyte speaks through and beyond tradition. He writes in sonnet, triolet, villanelle, and echo poem; in idiomatic dramatic monologues that capture the rhythms of Caribbean speech; in blues and rap poems; in free verse that draws upon the long-breath i…ncantatory lines of Ginsberg and contracts in miniaturist forms as concise as graffiti. The rapturous linguistic energy of the poems invites us to look beyond the outward reality they contemplate to a more hopeful, if occluded, vision. It is the title poem of Kendel Hippolyte's collection in which he lays down his ambitious challenge to himself and his reader: because we see with history, it is difficult to see through it; and yet we must or we become it--become nothing else but history. In rising to meet it, Hippolyte draws upon all his verbal mastery and critical insight to draw sharp focus upon a nation in flux, where urbanization expands and fragments his home of St. Lucia. The poet turns his vision upon the people, the land and the culture, and finds a microcosm of the Caribbean in the 21st century, reminding us of the possibilities for renewal in the personal and everyday.
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The three classic Caribbean plays collected in Inner Yardie have been performed to great acclaim and are now available to readers. Playwright Patricia Cumper reveals that the motivation for each of the plays was anger. The Rapist, which ran for six months in Jamaica, involves a rapist who ins…inuates himself into the trust of the main character, Sharon Williams, but the fury inside the play is as concerned with the repressive dynamics of a respectable middle-class family as it is to do with a specific act of misogynist violence. With lines that challenge the audience to laughter, and then to question why they are laughing, The Rapist remains a powerful piece of theater about gender in the Caribbean. The impetus for the ambitious and effective attempt to take on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet in Benny's Song was no less to do with fury--with the political violence that was sweeping up and destroying the lives of so many young people in Jamaica in the 1980s. In the nation-language of the streets and in lyric verse, Benny's Song adapts the narrative of star-crossed love in Shakespeare's play to the tragic mix of ideology, communal loyalties, criminality, and the tempting erotics of violence in the ghettos of Kingston. The third play, The Key Game, is set in a run-down psychiatric hospital in Jamaica, though one of the characters, Dappo, is sure his madness resulted from his time in Britain. Though none of the inmates have any love for the institution, all are in a state of panic when their nurse, Norman, tells them that the government is demolishing the hospital and that they are to be released into the community. But this is not really a play about care in the community. What Dappo, Gonzalez, and Shakespeare must confront are issues of a far more existential kind, their fear of freedom, and their damaged sense of themselves as men in relationship to women.
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Her daughter Ruthie's easy ascent through school and university has been Mrs. B's pride and joy for some time. But as the novel begins, she and her husband Charles are on their way to the airport to collect Ruthie, who has disgraced herself with a married man and a suicide attempt, and is, as… they will soon discover, pregnant. Loosely inspired by Flaubert's Madame Bovary, the novel focuses on the life of an upper-middle-class family in a contemporary Trinidad that is turbulent with violence and popular dissatisfactions, in response to which the family have retreated to a gated community. Mrs. B (she hates the name of Butcher) is fast approaching 50, and Ruthie's return and the state of her marriage provoke her to some unaccustomed self-reflection. Much like Flaubert's heroine, Mrs. B's longings are diffuse but bounded by the assumptions of her social circle. And without ever losing sympathy for Mrs. B and her family, the novel asks some tough questions about what resources Mrs. B. can bring to her 'issues' and how she can find meaning in her life. And what of Ruthie Can her greater openness to the island challenge her easy acceptance of privilege Behind both women is the complex and fascinating figure of Aunt Claire, the family's reader, who has provided the only real nurture in Mrs. B's life. Can she do the same for Ruthie But, then, how far does her deep immersion in books really equip her for 21st-century Trinidadian life.
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - ''Couvade' was first published in Great Britain in 1974 by Longman and in 1990 by Dangeroo Press. It appears here in a substantially revised from; 'A pleasant career' is published here for the first time.'--Title page verso.
