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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. 'Thanks be that we and some things are.' Kevyn Arthur's poems celebrate the provisionality of life of a 'precarious people', 'ducking from hurricanes on little lumps of rock.' His poems, the work of 'this altered dolphin', begin with an acute awareness of time and history as the distinctive difference in humankind's relationships to nature. His sense of the Caribbean is diverse, embracing the multiformity of its traditions. He uses a pithy and provocative humour to demolish views which are partial or narrow. Here is a voice which is lively and musical, sometimes classical in form, but always energetically demotic in using a diversity of language registers.In several poems, but most explicitly in 'Excerpt from The Whole Caboodle', Kevyn Arthur opposes the cultural politics of skin for a humanism which does not think: 'Cogito, ergo sum Aethiops' and where his grievance against colonialism is that it 'made me take too long to understand / that identity is a rudimentary fiction: that England and Barbados are Nowhere /. and we each are the Makers of the song we all sing' ('England and Nowhere')."Arthur's observations open up new vistas in the re-exploration of human possibilities. exciting." Mario Relich, Lines Review"Uses. great rolling, roaring tirades of slang, anger, lust, irony to powerful effect."Iron MagazineNovelist and poet Kevyn Arthur was born in Barbados in 1942. He has worked as a journalist and as a philosophy lecturer, and currently lives in Virginia. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condizione: New. The View from Belmont tells two stories: one through the letters of a young English widow who takes over her husband's cocoa estate in Trinidad in 1823; the other through the responses of a group of contemporary Trinidadians who are reading the letters at the time of the 1990 Muslimeen attempted coup. Clara's letters present the insights of a perceptive, independent-minded and generous-spirited young woman, who is nevertheless wholly committed to the institution of slavery. The letters give a sharp sense of Trinidadian society in the process of formation, but at their heart is an account of Clara's relationships with those with whom she shares her life on the estate, in particular Kano, a 'loyal' slave who she takes to her bed. For the contemporary Trinidadians, the letters raise troubling questions about the nature of the national psyche, the absence of social consensus and the extent to which the history of that period still shapes the present. Is Clara a 'worthless white bitch - no different from any of them men who was screwing their slave women' or a sensible woman taking charge of her life and looking for companionship? This is a comic, painful and moving novel. Its presentation of the cruelties, violence and affections of everyday relations under slavery raise questions not only about the nature of Caribbean societies, but the nature of history and its interpretation.Novelist and poet Kevyn Arthur was born in Barbados in 1942. He has worked as a journalist and as a philosophy lecturer, and currently lives in Virginia.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. The View from Belmont tells two stories: one through the letters of a young English widow who takes over her husband's cocoa estate in Trinidad in 1823; the other through the responses of a group of contemporary Trinidadians who are reading the letters at the time of the 1990 Muslimeen attempted coup. Clara's letters present the insights of a perceptive, independent-minded and generous-spirited young woman, who is nevertheless wholly committed to the institution of slavery. The letters give a sharp sense of Trinidadian society in the process of formation, but at their heart is an account of Clara's relationships with those with whom she shares her life on the estate, in particular Kano, a 'loyal' slave who she takes to her bed. For the contemporary Trinidadians, the letters raise troubling questions about the nature of the national psyche, the absence of social consensus and the extent to which the history of that period still shapes the present. Is Clara a 'worthless white bitch - no different from any of them men who was screwing their slave women' or a sensible woman taking charge of her life and looking for companionship? This is a comic, painful and moving novel. Its presentation of the cruelties, violence and affections of everyday relations under slavery raise questions not only about the nature of Caribbean societies, but the nature of history and its interpretation.Novelist and poet Kevyn Arthur was born in Barbados in 1942. He has worked as a journalist and as a philosophy lecturer, and currently lives in Virginia. Set in 1823, the decade before the abolition of slavery, and told through a series of frank and racy letters, a historical romance which follows the intrigues of a young English widow who takes over the management of her husband's sugar estates in Trinidad, and her love affair with one of her slaves. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 88 pages. 8.03x5.39x0.20 inches. In Stock.

Condizione: New. pp. 222.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. illustrated edition edition. 222 pages. 8.50x5.50x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condizione: New. The View from Belmont tells two stories: one through the letters of a young English widow who takes over her husband's cocoa estate in Trinidad in 1823; the other through the responses of a group of contemporary Trinidadians who are reading the letters at the time of the 1990 Muslimeen attempted coup. Clara's letters present the insights of a perceptive, independent-minded and generous-spirited young woman, who is nevertheless wholly committed to the institution of slavery. The letters give a sharp sense of Trinidadian society in the process of formation, but at their heart is an account of Clara's relationships with those with whom she shares her life on the estate, in particular Kano, a 'loyal' slave who she takes to her bed. For the contemporary Trinidadians, the letters raise troubling questions about the nature of the national psyche, the absence of social consensus and the extent to which the history of that period still shapes the present. Is Clara a 'worthless white bitch - no different from any of them men who was screwing their slave women' or a sensible woman taking charge of her life and looking for companionship? This is a comic, painful and moving novel. Its presentation of the cruelties, violence and affections of everyday relations under slavery raise questions not only about the nature of Caribbean societies, but the nature of history and its interpretation.Novelist and poet Kevyn Arthur was born in Barbados in 1942. He has worked as a journalist and as a philosophy lecturer, and currently lives in Virginia.

Paperback / softback. Condizione: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days.

Paperback. Condizione: New.

Condizione: New. pp. 222.

Condizione: New. pp. 222.

Paperback. Condizione: New.

Paperback. Condizione: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 300 pages. 9.75x6.50x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condizione: New. It was natural for the first nationalist phase of Caribbean writing to believe that it began from nothing. That was true in the sense that those who wrote in the twentieth century had little idea of what had gone before. Now Kevyn Arthur's investigation and meticulous editing of 18th century Barbadian newspapers and journals reveals there was, existing side by side with the horrors of slavery, a lively and heterogeneous literary world that begins to explore what it means to be Barbadian. This was, after all, a country that in 1651 had declared its independence from Cromwellian Britain and negotiated a treaty that gave it a degree of autonomy that influenced similar moves in the American colonies.By the 1730s, when the publisher, printer and first collector of the material in this volume, the fascinating Samuel Keimer (frequently jailed in Britain for his anti-royalist libels), arrived in Barbados, it was an island in which amateur theatre flourished, there was a literary society, artists painted and Doctor Towne had published a treatise on West Indian diseases. It did not have a press, and Keimer, once employer of Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia, and then conclusively undermined by him, met that need by establishing the Barbados Gazette.This first volume of Caribbean Treasure draws from issues of the Gazette published between 1731-1738, and later collected by Keimer in his Caribbeana, published in 1741. These newspapers contained much literary material, a feature dear to Keimer's heart. There are poems, satires, essays and letters in the style of the Spectator, and other materials that give a vivid picture of the life of that time. It is, of course, a world seen from the perspective of the White, slave-owning class (though Keimer himself, radical Protestant, idiosyncratic Quaker and Gnostic, had tried to teach 'his poor Brethren, the Male Negroes, to read' in Philadelphia), but one which was cutting its ties with 'the vain joys that Albion yields' and could write of 'Bless'd land, Barbados, hail! hail happy isle.'.Amply footnoted, contextualised (with Latin translations for the unclassical), and with an insightful and persuasive introductory essay by Kevyn Arthur, this volume is the first instalment of a project that conclusively demolishes VS Naipaul's infamous dictum: 'History is built around achievement and creation; and nothing was created in the West Indies.'Novelist and poet Kevyn Arthur was born in Barbados in 1942. He has worked as a journalist and as a philosophy lecturer, and currently lives in Virginia.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. 'Thanks be that we and some things are.' Kevyn Arthur's poems celebrate the provisionality of life of a 'precarious people', 'ducking from hurricanes on little lumps of rock.' His poems, the work of 'this altered dolphin', begin with an acute awareness of time and history as the distinctive difference in humankind's relationships to nature. His sense of the Caribbean is diverse, embracing the multiformity of its traditions. He uses a pithy and provocative humour to demolish views which are partial or narrow. Here is a voice which is lively and musical, sometimes classical in form, but always energetically demotic in using a diversity of language registers.In several poems, but most explicitly in 'Excerpt from The Whole Caboodle', Kevyn Arthur opposes the cultural politics of skin for a humanism which does not think: 'Cogito, ergo sum Aethiops' and where his grievance against colonialism is that it 'made me take too long to understand / that identity is a rudimentary fiction: that England and Barbados are Nowhere /. and we each are the Makers of the song we all sing' ('England and Nowhere')."Arthur's observations open up new vistas in the re-exploration of human possibilities. exciting." Mario Relich, Lines Review"Uses. great rolling, roaring tirades of slang, anger, lust, irony to powerful effect."Iron MagazineNovelist and poet Kevyn Arthur was born in Barbados in 1942. He has worked as a journalist and as a philosophy lecturer, and currently lives in Virginia. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. The View from Belmont tells two stories: one through the letters of a young English widow who takes over her husband's cocoa estate in Trinidad in 1823; the other through the responses of a group of contemporary Trinidadians who are reading the letters at the time of the 1990 Muslimeen attempted coup. Clara's letters present the insights of a perceptive, independent-minded and generous-spirited young woman, who is nevertheless wholly committed to the institution of slavery. The letters give a sharp sense of Trinidadian society in the process of formation, but at their heart is an account of Clara's relationships with those with whom she shares her life on the estate, in particular Kano, a 'loyal' slave who she takes to her bed. For the contemporary Trinidadians, the letters raise troubling questions about the nature of the national psyche, the absence of social consensus and the extent to which the history of that period still shapes the present. Is Clara a 'worthless white bitch - no different from any of them men who was screwing their slave women' or a sensible woman taking charge of her life and looking for companionship? This is a comic, painful and moving novel. Its presentation of the cruelties, violence and affections of everyday relations under slavery raise questions not only about the nature of Caribbean societies, but the nature of history and its interpretation.Novelist and poet Kevyn Arthur was born in Barbados in 1942. He has worked as a journalist and as a philosophy lecturer, and currently lives in Virginia. Set in 1823, the decade before the abolition of slavery, and told through a series of frank and racy letters, a historical romance which follows the intrigues of a young English widow who takes over the management of her husband's sugar estates in Trinidad, and her love affair with one of her slaves. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

Condizione: New.

Paperback. Condizione: New. The View from Belmont tells two stories: one through the letters of a young English widow who takes over her husband's cocoa estate in Trinidad in 1823; the other through the responses of a group of contemporary Trinidadians who are reading the letters at the time of the 1990 Muslimeen attempted coup. Clara's letters present the insights of a perceptive, independent-minded and generous-spirited young woman, who is nevertheless wholly committed to the institution of slavery. The letters give a sharp sense of Trinidadian society in the process of formation, but at their heart is an account of Clara's relationships with those with whom she shares her life on the estate, in particular Kano, a 'loyal' slave who she takes to her bed. For the contemporary Trinidadians, the letters raise troubling questions about the nature of the national psyche, the absence of social consensus and the extent to which the history of that period still shapes the present. Is Clara a 'worthless white bitch - no different from any of them men who was screwing their slave women' or a sensible woman taking charge of her life and looking for companionship? This is a comic, painful and moving novel. Its presentation of the cruelties, violence and affections of everyday relations under slavery raise questions not only about the nature of Caribbean societies, but the nature of history and its interpretation.Novelist and poet Kevyn Arthur was born in Barbados in 1942. He has worked as a journalist and as a philosophy lecturer, and currently lives in Virginia.

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paperback. Condizione: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Paperback. Condizione: New. It was natural for the first nationalist phase of Caribbean writing to believe that it began from nothing. That was true in the sense that those who wrote in the twentieth century had little idea of what had gone before. Now Kevyn Arthur's investigation and meticulous editing of 18th century Barbadian newspapers and journals reveals there was, existing side by side with the horrors of slavery, a lively and heterogeneous literary world that begins to explore what it means to be Barbadian. This was, after all, a country that in 1651 had declared its independence from Cromwellian Britain and negotiated a treaty that gave it a degree of autonomy that influenced similar moves in the American colonies.By the 1730s, when the publisher, printer and first collector of the material in this volume, the fascinating Samuel Keimer (frequently jailed in Britain for his anti-royalist libels), arrived in Barbados, it was an island in which amateur theatre flourished, there was a literary society, artists painted and Doctor Towne had published a treatise on West Indian diseases. It did not have a press, and Keimer, once employer of Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia, and then conclusively undermined by him, met that need by establishing the Barbados Gazette.This first volume of Caribbean Treasure draws from issues of the Gazette published between 1731-1738, and later collected by Keimer in his Caribbeana, published in 1741. These newspapers contained much literary material, a feature dear to Keimer's heart. There are poems, satires, essays and letters in the style of the Spectator, and other materials that give a vivid picture of the life of that time. It is, of course, a world seen from the perspective of the White, slave-owning class (though Keimer himself, radical Protestant, idiosyncratic Quaker and Gnostic, had tried to teach 'his poor Brethren, the Male Negroes, to read' in Philadelphia), but one which was cutting its ties with 'the vain joys that Albion yields' and could write of 'Bless'd land, Barbados, hail! hail happy isle.'.Amply footnoted, contextualised (with Latin translations for the unclassical), and with an insightful and persuasive introductory essay by Kevyn Arthur, this volume is the first instalment of a project that conclusively demolishes VS Naipaul's infamous dictum: 'History is built around achievement and creation; and nothing was created in the West Indies.'Novelist and poet Kevyn Arthur was born in Barbados in 1942. He has worked as a journalist and as a philosophy lecturer, and currently lives in Virginia.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The View from Belmont tells two stories: one through the letters of a young English widow who takes over her husband's cocoa estate in Trinidad in 1823; the other through the responses of a group of contemporary Trinidadians who are reading the letters at the time of the 1990 Muslimeen black power revolt.

Paperback. Condizione: New. The View from Belmont tells two stories: one through the letters of a young English widow who takes over her husband's cocoa estate in Trinidad in 1823; the other through the responses of a group of contemporary Trinidadians who are reading the letters at the time of the 1990 Muslimeen attempted coup. Clara's letters present the insights of a perceptive, independent-minded and generous-spirited young woman, who is nevertheless wholly committed to the institution of slavery. The letters give a sharp sense of Trinidadian society in the process of formation, but at their heart is an account of Clara's relationships with those with whom she shares her life on the estate, in particular Kano, a 'loyal' slave who she takes to her bed. For the contemporary Trinidadians, the letters raise troubling questions about the nature of the national psyche, the absence of social consensus and the extent to which the history of that period still shapes the present. Is Clara a 'worthless white bitch - no different from any of them men who was screwing their slave women' or a sensible woman taking charge of her life and looking for companionship? This is a comic, painful and moving novel. Its presentation of the cruelties, violence and affections of everyday relations under slavery raise questions not only about the nature of Caribbean societies, but the nature of history and its interpretation.Novelist and poet Kevyn Arthur was born in Barbados in 1942. He has worked as a journalist and as a philosophy lecturer, and currently lives in Virginia.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. iv, 396 p. : ill., ports. ; 25 cm. with owner's stamp.