Shadows Move Among Them (Caribbean Modern Classics) - Softcover

Mittelholzer, Edgar

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1845230914 ISBN 13: 9781845230913

Verlag: PEEPAL TREE PR, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

Portraying the dark, authoritarian side of the utopian dream, this classic novel tells the story of the Reverend Harmston, a man devoted to building a microsociety in which there is a balance between the order that is necessary to produce livelihood and the freedom to fully explore sexuality. Setting up a commune in the remote Guyanese forest with the creed, &;Hard work, frank love, and wholesome play,&; the reverend attempts to construct an ideal society that opens up cross-cultural dialogue between the spirit of European enlightenment and the culture of the native Amerindians. Underneath its generally comic tone, however, there are notes of a darker spirit at play&;such as Harmston's unquestioned authority and the brutal punishments he hands out&;that eerily foreshadow the actual 1978 Jonestown Massacre, a violent event that occurred 27 years after the novel's initial publication.

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Edgar Mittelholzer is the author of numerous novels, including My Bones and My Flute, and A Swarthy Boy, his autobiography.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: PEEPAL TREE PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1845230914
• ISBN 13: 9781845230913
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 350
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