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Andrew Salkey (1928–1995)

Autor de West Indian Stories

40+ Obras 291 Miembros 7 Reseñas

Sobre El Autor

Born in Panama and educated in Jamaica and London, Salkey is an important critic and anthologist who uses African folk tales and variegated West Indian popular culture, such as cultism, as sources for his novels and short stories. His first novel, A Quality of Violence (1959), focuses on life in mostrar más rural Jamaica. His later novels portray urban, middle-class protagonists unable to relate to others because of racial, cultural, or class differences. Salkey is also a poet and a writer of travel literature. As a writer, he attempts to forge a distinctive West Indian personality out of the diversity of the various ethnic sources. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos

Incluye los nombres: Andrew Salkey, Andrew Salkey

Nota de desambiguación:

(eng) full name Felix Andrew Alexander Salkey

Obras de Andrew Salkey

West Indian Stories (1960) 31 copias
Hurricane (1968) 26 copias
Earthquake (1971) 20 copias
Riot (New Oxford Library) (1967) 19 copias
Havana Journal (Pelican) (1971) 15 copias
Joey Tyson (1974) 14 copias
Georgetown Journal (1972) 12 copias
Anancy's Score (1973) 12 copias
A Quality of Violence (1978) 10 copias
Jamaica (1973) 8 copias

Obras relacionadas

For Neruda, For Chile: An International Anthology (1975) — Contribuidor — 23 copias
The Faber Book of Contemporary Caribbean Short Stories (1990) — Contribuidor — 16 copias
Out of Bounds: British, Black, and Asian Poets (2012) — Contribuidor — 13 copias
At School Today. Introduction By Andrew Salkey (1977) — Introducción — 1 copia

Etiquetado

Conocimiento común

Fecha de nacimiento
1928-01-30
Fecha de fallecimiento
1995
Género
male
Nacionalidad
Jamaica
Lugares de residencia
Colon, Panama (birth)
Jamaica
London, England, UK
Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
Educación
University of London
Ocupaciones
novelist
editor
anthologist
Aviso de desambiguación
full name Felix Andrew Alexander Salkey

Miembros

Reseñas

Review: Escape To An Autumn Pavement by Andrew Salkey. 08/25/2017

This book is a Caribbean Classic about sexual identity and relationships. I enjoyed the story but it was a challenge because of the way the author’s writing style with the main character who is the narrator mixing his thoughts within the paragraphs of dialogue between characters. As the reader I had to stop and figure out if it was the thoughts of the character or dialogue interaction with someone.

The main character, Johnnie Sobert is a Jamaican refugee who works at a club in London that accommodates to Black American servicemen. He left his hometown to get away from his domineering mother and engages himself in the bohemian Soho community. Johnnie assumes a wise guy persona to hide his ingrained insecurities that has been confusing his thoughts of his unsure sexual identity. Johnnie was staying at Fiona and her husband’s rooming house which caused Johnnie confusing conflict because Fiona kept coming to his room interested in seducing him. Johnnie was angry but Fiona was determined to get her way.

Johnnie decided to move and share a place with his friend Dick even knowing Dick was in love with him. Dick questioned Johnnie about his affair with his landlady. Johnnie never thought of Dick other than a friend. One of Johnnie’s dilemmas is life expectations because that is what his parents implied during his childhood. Over time Dick has
confused Johnnie to the point of not knowing about his sexuality. Dick ended up giving Johnnie an alternative of choosing between him and Fiona. Dick went away for a week to give Johnnie time to get his life back in order and to make a decision but no matter how long Johnnie thought about his expectation he never did make a choice.

The story ended with Johnnie just walking off…. “talking to himself, telling himself what to do” ---he’s trying to reconcile his many performances, but all he’s really doing is falling into a sinkhole of inescapable despair. His escape just takes him further from the truth, from himself, and from happiness.
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Juan-banjo | Aug 31, 2017 |
Anacy's Score is Andrew Salkey's own original interpretation of Anacy. he has bridged the historical gap between Anacy's two homelands and has made his Anacy into a physical and metaphorical spiderma deeply involved in the contnuing atruggles throughout the Third World.
 
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LASC | 2 reseñas más. | Feb 12, 2013 |
An anthology of poetry and prose which illustrates the manner in which writers in Cuba carry out their responsibility as intellectuals within the revolution. He introduces the anthology with a brief historical account of writing in Cuba and establishes the context within which the selection of writings is to be read.
 
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LASC | Oct 15, 2012 |
This is a poem about Jamaica about the experience of the slave trade and of colonisation and about a struggle for freedom and for identity which still rages today among Caribbean peoples.
 
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LASC | Oct 12, 2012 |

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Obras
40
También por
7
Miembros
291
Popularidad
#80,411
Valoración
3.9
Reseñas
7
ISBNs
56
Idiomas
1

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