View from Mount Diablo / Ralph Thompson ; an annotated edition by John Lennard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thompson, Ralph.

Contributor:

Lennard, John.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jamaica--Poetry.

Jamaica.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (191 p.)

Place of Publication:

Tirril [England] ; Penrith, Calif. : Humanities-Ebooks, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A verse-novel that won the Jamaican National Literary Award in 2001, View from Mount Diablo explores the transformation of Jamaica from a sleepy colonial society to a post-colonial nation. Class and racial privilege and the resentments they provoke unders

Contents:

""Title Page""; ""Copyright and Licence ""; ""Contents ""; ""Acknowledgements ""; ""Map of Jamaica""; ""Introduction ""; ""Form 1. The Verse Novel""; ""Form 2. The Bildungsroman""; ""Background 1. Jamaica in WW2 ""; ""Background 2. ""Blood / cheaper than drugs""""; ""Early Reception""; ""Wayne Brown, Launch Speech""; ""Father Gerard Leo McLaughlin SJ, a review""; ""VIEW FROM MOUNT DIABLO""; ""Prologue""; ""One""; ""Two""; ""Three""; ""Four""; ""Five""; ""Six""; ""Seven""; ""Eight""; ""Nine""; ""Ten""; ""Eleven""; ""Twelve""; ""Annotations""; ""Prologue""; ""Ch. 1 ""; ""Ch. 2 ""; ""Ch. 3 ""

""Ch. 4""""Ch. 5 ""; ""Ch. 6 ""; ""Ch. 7""; ""Ch. 8""; ""Ch. 9""; ""Ch. 10""; ""Ch. 11""; ""Ch. 12 ""; ""Bibliography""; ""Peepal Tree Paperback Back Cover ""; ""Peepal Tree Paperback Front Cover ""; ""Humanities Insights ""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-282-17214-X

9786612172144

OCLC:

923144504