The Intended - Softcover

Dabydeen, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1845230132 ISBN 13: 9781845230135

Verlag: Peepal Tree Press Ltd, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

The young narrator of "The Intended" is twelve when he leaves his village in rural Guyana to come to England. There, he is abandoned into social care, but with great determination and self-discipline seizes every opportunity to follow his aunt's farewell advice, 'but you must take education...pass plenty exam' and wins a scholarship to Oxford. With an upper-class white fiancee, he has unquestionably arrived, but at the cost of ignoring the other part of his aunt's farewell: '...you is we, remember you is we.' Through remembering his Guyanese childhood and youth in working class Balham, the narrator's older self explores the contradictions, the difficulties implicit in his aunt's advice and the cost to his personality of losing that past. At one level a moving semi-autobiographical novel, "The Intended" is also a sophisticated postcolonial text with its echoes of 'Heart of Darkness', its play between language registers and its exploration of the instability of identity.
As an Indo-Guyanese, the narrator finds himself seen as 'Paki' by the English, and as some mongrel hybrid by 'real' Asians from India and Pakistan; as sharing a common British 'Blackness', yet acutely conscious of the real cultural divisions between Guyanese of African and Indian origins.

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David Dabydeen was born in Guyana. He was sent to England at the age of twelve, and was in care until he was sixteen. He read English at Cambridge, and has published seven earlier novels and three collections of poetry. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Professor of Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. In 2008 he was awarded the prestigious Anthony N Sabga Caribbean Award.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Peepal Tree Press Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1845230132
• ISBN 13: 9781845230135
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 3
• Anzahl der Seiten: 246
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