View From Mount Diablo: An Annotated Edition
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- 79,00 kr
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- 79,00 kr
Publisher Description
A verse-novel that won the Jamaican National
Literary Award in 2001, View from Mount Diablo
explores the transformation of Jamaica from a
sleepy colonial society to a post-colonial nation.
Class and racial privilege and the resentments they
provoke underscore both turmoil in wider society
and the relationships at the heart of the narrative,
between Adam Cole, a dreamy white boy driven by personal tragedy to crusading journalism, squint-eyed Nellie Simpson, once a servant, then a political enforcer, and stuttering Nathan, gardener and groom turned cocaine baron. Beyond this trio is a dazzling array of real and fictitious characters.
The annotated edition by John Lennard, Professor of
British and American Literature at UWI–Mona in
Kingston, allows the full scope of the verse-novel to
emerge for readers unfamiliar with Jamaican history
since the 1930s.