Arthur kevyn (10 resultados)

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

Paperback. Condición: New. It was natural in the first nationalist stage of Caribbean writing to suggest 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, as Kevyn Arthur's investigation of 18th century Barbadian newspapers and journals reveals, there was, existing side by side with slavery, a lively and heterogeneous literary world that begins to explore what it meant to be Barbadian. By the mid 1750s Barbados boasted a Society of Arts, an English Society, a Music Society, and a Literary Society and two newspapers, Samuel Keimer's "Barbados Gazette" and "The Barbados Mercury" founded by Isaac Orderson in the 1750s. These newspapers contain much literary material. There are poems, satires, essays and letters in the style of the Spectator, and other materials that give a vivid picture of life at that time. It is, of course, a world seen from the perspective of the White slave-owning class, though there are tantalizing possibilities that at least some of those who wrote (much of the material is written under pen names) were of the free mulatto class. There are, for instance, the dialogues of Philo-Xylon on the legal rights of slaves, which are conceivably by a member of this group. Whilst much of the material draws on contemporary English models, though changed by transplantation to the Caribbean, there is 'Buddy Quou', probably the oldest (1787) extant poem in West Indian Creole. Volume 1 of Kevyn Arthur's rewarding collection of materials draws from the Barbados Samuel Keimer's miscellany, "Caribbeana", Volume 2 draws from the "Barbados Mercury" and the "Barbados Gazette". With an insightful introduction and a scholarly apparatus of explanatory notes, the two volumes of this collection gives an unrivalled view of eighteenth century Barbadian letters.…

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. Described as hardcover as it has been privately rebound. Contains Kamau Brathwaite's The Poet and his Place in Barbadian Culture, delivered December 2, 1987, the original lecture from which Barabajan Poems was developed. Also contains Paule Marshall - Language is the only homeland: bajan poets abroad (1994); Ali Mazrui - The world with one super power: is it a more dangerous place? (1991). Edges browning; inside covers and early and late pages foxing. …

Paperback. Condición: 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. Condición: 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. Condición: 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. Condición: Very Good. iv, 396 p. : ill., ports. ; 25 cm. with owner's stamp.