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Item Details
| Title:
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A VIEW FROM THE MANGROVE
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| By: |
Antonio Benitez Rojo, James E. Maraniss (Trans) |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£26.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1558492615 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781558492615 |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
27 April, 2000 |
| Pages: |
256 |
| Translated from: |
Spanish |
| Description: |
A collection of 11 stories depicting the colonial history of several Latin American countries. The tales chronicle events of unremitting and often unspeakable horror - slave trading, invasions, mutinies, rebellions and murders. |
| Synopsis: |
In this masterful collection of short stories, a celebrated Cuban writer continues his imaginative exploration of the genesis of the modern Caribbean world. Intent on recovering the interior history (la infra-historia) of this astonishingly diverse region, Antonio Benitez-Rojo ranges widely across time and geography. He also experiments with a variety of narrative techniques and prose styles, each intended to capture some unique aspect of the Caribbean's heterogeneous, polyrhythmic cultural heritage. Thus "The Broken Flute" centers on a tragic anthropological reflection; "Windward Passage" on the confessions of a guilty priest stationed in Hispaniola; "Summer Island" on events surrounding the colonization of St. Kitts; and "A View from the Mangrove" on the troubled days of a soldier during Cuba's War of Independence. The result is historical fiction of the first order, a vivid tapestry of characters and contexts. Whether describing the world through the eyes of a seventeenth-century African slave or an English slave trader, a French buccaneer or a Spanish official, an Aztec god's avatar or a Haitian grand blanc, Benitez-Rojo displays a rare gift for resurrecting the past in all its chaotic and compelling immediacy." |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
University of Massachusetts Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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