GROWING UP STUPID UNDER THE UNION JACK by Austin Clarke ( 9781902669700 )

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Title:

GROWING UP STUPID UNDER THE UNION JACK

By:

Austin Clarke

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1902669703

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9781902669700

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Publisher:

SIGNAL BOOKS LTD

Pub. date:

1 July, 2003

Pages:

192

Description:

An autobiographical account of growing up in colonial Barbados during and after the Second World War.

Synopsis:

Austin Clarke's classic story of British colonial education is the subject of Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack. It is the story of a boy whose mother struggled against seemingly impossible odds to give her son the best available education. Generations of Barbadians, and West Indians, will identify with young Austin Clarke, from the absentee father to the challenges of a daily life in a society based on colour and class prejudice and a rigid set of customs and rules imported from England and imposed on Caribbean society. Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack is more than a memoir; it provides a rare in-depth look into the nature of the colonial condition, told with humour, wit and an authentic Bajan voice.

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