Middle Passage The Caribbean Revisited
Author:Naipaul, V. S.
ISBN-13:
9780375708343
ISBN:
0375708340
Pub Date: 2002
Publisher: Random House Inc
Summary: In 1960 the government of Trinidad invited V. S. Naipaul to revisit his native country and record his impressions. In this classic of modern travel writing he has created a deft and remarkably prescient portrait of Trinidad and four adjacent Caribbean societiescountries haunted by the legacies of slavery and colonialism and so thoroughly defined by the norms of Empire that they can scarcely believe that the Empire is... ending. InThe Middle Passage, Naipaul watches a Trinidadian movie audience greeting Humphrey Bogart's appearance with cries of "That is man!" He ventures into a Trinidad slum so insalubrious that the locals call it the Gaza Strip. He follows a racially charged election campaign in British Guiana (now Guyana) and marvels at the Gallic pretension of Martinique society, which maintains the fiction that its roads are extensions of France'sroutes nationales.And throughout he relates the ghastly episodes of the region's colonial past and shows how they continue to inform its language, politics, and values. The result is a work of novelistic vividness and dazzling perspicacity that displays Naipaul at the peak of his powers. [read more]
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Pub Date: 2002
Publisher: Random House Inc
ISBN-13: 9780375708343
ISBN: 0375708340
Pub Date: 2002
Publisher: Random House Inc
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