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Raymond Ramcharitar(Author)
Peepal Tree Press Ltd
Published on 30. April 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
64 pages
978-1-84523-212-2 (ISBN)
Description
A poetic approach to revising and re-creating Caribbean mythology on an epic scale, this book-length autobiographical poem in five parts addresses the large themes of the Caribbean experience: history, migration, myth, and domestic love. The different movements vary in style and tone--from blank verse, to terza rima, to heroic couplets--but are unified by the voice of the single narrator, which changes over time. Prefaced by a passage from the Ramayana, the poem begins on the plains of Caroni, where the narrator traces his beginnings, and moves to an overnight bus journey through Europe, a sojourn in Toronto, and an account of a broken marriage, addressed to the narrator's daughter. The series of poems ends with "The Last Avatar," a miniepic which recasts the Caribbean as a Hindu eschatological myth and places its heroes as the holy trinity of Brahma, Shiva, and Vishnu in Caribbean terms.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Yorkshire
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 206 mm
Width: 137 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
91 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84523-212-2 (9781845232122)
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Person
Raymond Ramcharitar is a writer, a journalist, and a cultural critic from Trinidad. He is the author of a controversial study of the Trinidadian media, Breaking the News: Media and Culture in Trinidad, the short story collection The Island Quintet, and the poetry collection American Fall.