Lara Rains and colonial rites /
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Author / Creator: | Fergus, Howard A. |
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Imprint: | Leeds, England : Peepal Tree Press, 1998. |
Description: | 1 online resource (91 pages) |
Language: | English |
Series: | Caribbean literature. |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12472653 |
ISBN: | 0948833955 9780948833953 |
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 90-91). Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record. |
Summary: | "Life on the volcanic island of Montserrat is the subject of these poems. They explore its vulnerability to the forces of nature - Hurricane Hugo and the erupting Soufriere, which even before its current devastations "opened a new bible/ in her pulpit in the hills/to teach us the arithmetic of days"." "A sequence of obituary poems reminds that in a small society - a "two-be-three island/hard like rock" - people are the one true resource. The theme of the irreplaceability of individual lives takes on a special poignance as Montserrat's viability is threatened by the flight of its population." "A historian of Montserrat's continuous existence as a society since the seventeenth century, Howard Fergus writes with both love and anger about the frustrations of "this British corridor", still hemmed in by colonialism." "Beyond Montserrat, he looks for a place in the wider Caribbean, but finds the unity he seeks only in cricket (and crime). In cricket, he finds a major irony: that through a white-flannelled colonial rite, the West Indies finds its only true political framework and the means - explored in a celebration of Brian Lara's feats of 1994 - to overturn, symbolically at least, centuries of enslavement and colonialism."--BOOK JACKET. |
Other form: | Print version: Fergus, Howard A. Lara Rains and colonial rites. Leeds, England : Peepal Tree Press, 1998 0948833955 |
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