Andrew Salkey (1928–1995)
Autore di West Indian Stories
Sull'Autore
Born in Panama and educated in Jamaica and London, Salkey is an important critic and anthologist who uses African folk tales and variegated West Indian popular culture, such as cultism, as sources for his novels and short stories. His first novel, A Quality of Violence (1959), focuses on life in mostra altro rural Jamaica. His later novels portray urban, middle-class protagonists unable to relate to others because of racial, cultural, or class differences. Salkey is also a poet and a writer of travel literature. As a writer, he attempts to forge a distinctive West Indian personality out of the diversity of the various ethnic sources. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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(eng) full name Felix Andrew Alexander Salkey
Opere di Andrew Salkey
Opere correlate
The Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories: Reissue (Oxford Books of Prose) (1999) — Collaboratore — 93 copie
Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles (2008) — Collaboratore — 50 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1928-01-30
- Data di morte
- 1995
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Jamaica
- Luogo di residenza
- Colon, Panama (birth)
Jamaica
London, England, UK
Amherst, Massachusetts, USA - Istruzione
- University of London
- Attività lavorative
- novelist
editor
anthologist - Nota di disambiguazione
- full name Felix Andrew Alexander Salkey
Utenti
Recensioni
Anacy's Score is Andrew Salkey's own original interpretation of Anacy. he has bridged the historical gap between Anacy's two homelands and has made his Anacy into a physical and metaphorical spiderma deeply involved in the contnuing atruggles throughout the Third World.
An anthology of poetry and prose which illustrates the manner in which writers in Cuba carry out their responsibility as intellectuals within the revolution. He introduces the anthology with a brief historical account of writing in Cuba and establishes the context within which the selection of writings is to be read.
This is a poem about Jamaica about the experience of the slave trade and of colonisation and about a struggle for freedom and for identity which still rages today among Caribbean peoples.
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 40
- Opere correlate
- 7
- Utenti
- 292
- Popolarità
- #80,152
- Voto
- 3.9
- Recensioni
- 7
- ISBN
- 56
- Lingue
- 1
This book is a Caribbean Classic about sexual identity and relationships. I enjoyed the story but it was a challenge because of the way the author’s writing style with the main character who is the narrator mixing his thoughts within the paragraphs of dialogue between characters. As the reader I had to stop and figure out if it was the thoughts of the character or dialogue interaction with someone.
The main character, Johnnie Sobert is a Jamaican refugee who works at a club in London that accommodates to Black American servicemen. He left his hometown to get away from his domineering mother and engages himself in the bohemian Soho community. Johnnie assumes a wise guy persona to hide his ingrained insecurities that has been confusing his thoughts of his unsure sexual identity. Johnnie was staying at Fiona and her husband’s rooming house which caused Johnnie confusing conflict because Fiona kept coming to his room interested in seducing him. Johnnie was angry but Fiona was determined to get her way.
Johnnie decided to move and share a place with his friend Dick even knowing Dick was in love with him. Dick questioned Johnnie about his affair with his landlady. Johnnie never thought of Dick other than a friend. One of Johnnie’s dilemmas is life expectations because that is what his parents implied during his childhood. Over time Dick has
confused Johnnie to the point of not knowing about his sexuality. Dick ended up giving Johnnie an alternative of choosing between him and Fiona. Dick went away for a week to give Johnnie time to get his life back in order and to make a decision but no matter how long Johnnie thought about his expectation he never did make a choice.
The story ended with Johnnie just walking off…. “talking to himself, telling himself what to do” ---he’s trying to reconcile his many performances, but all he’s really doing is falling into a sinkhole of inescapable despair. His escape just takes him further from the truth, from himself, and from happiness.… (altro)