
Highway in the Sun
A Collection of Plays
Sam Selvon(Author)
Peepal Tree Press Ltd
Published on 1. December 1991
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-0-948833-07-6 (ISBN)
Description
The first Indian indentured laborers came to the Caribbean more than150 years ago, and their traditional values have had to confront a rapidly changing world in 20th century Trinidad. Highway in the Sun tells the story of Tiger and Urmilla's first year of marriage away from their extended family and their struggles relating to their new Afro-Creole neighbors in the suburbs of Port of Spain. In Home Sweet India, Johnny is dismayed by his loss of culture and threatened by the emergence of Creole nationalism, and plans to return to India. In Turn Again Tiger, Tiger learns that he must not turn his back on his Indian past. These plays demonstrate the choices Indians in the Caribbean must make between tradition and creolization.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Yorkshire
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 206 mm
Width: 139 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
236 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-948833-07-6 (9780948833076)
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Person
Samuel Selvon is the author of several novels and plays, including A Brighter Sun, An Island Is a World, The Lonely Londoners, and Moses Migrating.