Janjhat

Rooplall Monar

ISBN 10: 0948833300 / ISBN 13: 9780948833304

Editore: Peepal Tree Press Apr 2003, 2003

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Neuware - The lives of Indo-Caribbean workers are explored in this novel. Portrayed are their hopes and despairs, their religious life, their poetry, their bawdiness, their sense of cultural continuity, and their awareness that their world has changed. Data and Big-Bye begin their arranged marriage as strangers, sexually ignorant and under the eagle eye of Big-Bye's domineering mooma, who wants Data to be a proper Hindu daughter-in-law. Data has other ideas, and her struggle for independence sets off janjhat in the house. The couple's hesitant steps toward understanding are at the heart of a vivid portrayal of a community in deep cultural crisis. This replaces 0948833300.

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• Titolo: Janjhat
• Editore: Peepal Tree Press Apr 2003
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0948833300
• ISBN 13: 9780948833304
• Rilegatura: Taschenbuch
• Edizione: seconda edizione
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 203 L x 132 A x 13 P (millimetri) 203 millimetri di larghezza per 132 millimetri di altezza per 13 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 181 grammi

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Riassunto

"The lives of Indo-Caribbean workers are explored in this novel. Portrayed are their hopes and despairs, their religious life, their poetry, their bawdiness, their sense of cultural continuity, and their awareness that their world has changed. Data and Big-Bye begin their arranged marriage as strangers, sexually ignorant and under the eagle eye of Big-ByeÆs domineering mooma, who wants Data to be a proper Hindu daughter-in-law. Data has other ideas, and her struggle for independence sets off janjhat in the house. The coupleÆs hesitant steps toward understanding are at the heart of a vivid portrayal of a community in deep cultural crisis. "

Informazioni sull?autore

Rooplall Monar was born in a mud floor logie on the Lusignan sugar estate, East Coast Demerara, in 1945. His parents were both caneworkers, and his mother continued to work on her own ground provision plot daily, long after she retired. The family moved to Annandale Village in 1953 to a houselot with its own plot. This, much extended over the years, remains Monar's home. He attended Lusignan Government school, Buxton Congregational School, Hindu College and Annandale Evening College. He has worked as a teacher, accounts clerk, freelance journalist, broadcaster and practitioner of folk healing (herbal cures).