
Hamel, the Obeah Man
Cynric R. Williams(Author)
Broadview Press Ltd
Published on 5. October 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
496 pages
978-1-55111-576-4 (ISBN)
Description
Hamel, the Obeah Man is set against the backdrop of early nineteenth-century Jamaica, and tells the story of a slave rebellion planned in the ruins of a plantation. Though the novel is sympathetic to white slaveholders and hostile to anti-slavery missionaries, it presents a complex picture of the culture and resistance of the island's black majority. Hamel, the spiritual leader of the rebels, becomes more and more central to the story, and is a surprisingly powerful and ultimately ambiguous figure.
This Broadview Edition includes a new foreword by acclaimed poet Kamau Brathwaite and a critical introduction by the editors. Extensive appendices include contemporary reviews of the novel, other authors' and travellers' descriptions of Jamaica, and historical documents related to slave insurrections and the debate over slavery.
This Broadview Edition includes a new foreword by acclaimed poet Kamau Brathwaite and a critical introduction by the editors. Extensive appendices include contemporary reviews of the novel, other authors' and travellers' descriptions of Jamaica, and historical documents related to slave insurrections and the debate over slavery.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Calgary
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
670 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55111-576-4 (9781551115764)
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Persons
Candace Ward is Associate Professor of English at Florida State University and the editor of the Broadview Edition of Sarah Fielding's The Governess. Tim Watson is Associate Professor of English at the University of Miami and the author of Caribbean Culture and British Fiction in the Atlantic World, 1780-1870 (Cambridge University Press, 2008).