Arrival of the Snake-Woman and Other Stories
Fiction. African American Studies. The Toronto author's Jamaican birthplace provides the setting for these powerful and poignant stories that span a period of roughly 150 years, from the closing days of slavery in 1838 to the 1980s. The tensions wrought by rapid change and conflicting loyalties are at the heart of these stories, most beautifully evoked in the novella Arrival of the Snake-Woman. Here a young boy narrates the seminal event of his childhood in the late nineteenth century: the coming of a lonely Indian indentured woman into a mountain village. Senior's stories are leavened with wit and humour and the intricate play with language…
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- ISBN: 978-1-894770-53-8
- EAN: 9781894770538
- Produktnummer: 10771302
- Verlag: Tsar Pubn
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 169 S.
- Masse: H23.1 cm x B14.9 cm x D1.3 cm 259 g
- Gewicht: 259
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