Rupert Gray : a tale in black and white / by Stephen N. Cobham ; edited by Lise Winer ; with annotations and an introduction by Bridget Brereton [and three others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cobham, Stephen N. (Stephen Nathaniel), author.

Contributor:

Winer, Lise, editor.

Brereton, Bridget, 1946- annotator, author of introduction, etc.

Series:

Caribbean heritage series ; v. 3.

Caribbean heritage series ; Volume III

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Interracial dating--Trinidad and Tobago--Fiction.

Interracial dating.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (228 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Jamaica : University of the West Indies Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Caribbean Heritage series is designed to publish new editions of historically significant works of fiction from our region. The first three volumes in the series comprise four Trinidadian novels published between 1838 and 1907. A substantial introduction and thorough annotations contextualize each of the original texts. The first volume in the series is E.L. Joseph's Warner Arundell: The Adventures of a Creole. The second volume includes two novels: Adolphus, A Tale, and Mrs. Wilkins's The Slave Son. The third volume in the series presents Stephen Cobham's novel Rupert Gray, first published in 1907. Like the other novels in the series, this work also contains a strong political impetus, typical of West Indian novels, including support for the rights of all races. Together these four texts establish evidence of a much older and deeper local literary foundation than hitherto realized. This novel was written in Trinidad by a black or mixed-race teacher then law clerk, who also wrote poems and gave public lectures on literary topics. The character of Rupert Gray was apparently based on that of Henry Sylvester Williams, a black lawyer educated in England, who was a major figure in the Pan-African Association. The novel traces the love affair of Rupert Gray, a Negro accountant, and Gwendoline Serle, the daughter of a white businessman in Trinidad. The couple's interracial courtship is marked by parental disapproval, society's scorn and the loyalty of friends. A series of tragic events culminates in a melodramatic courtroom scene.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgements

Contributors

Introduction

The "Caribbean Heritage" Corpus in Trinidad

Stephen Nathaniel Cobham, Author of Rupert Gray

The Historical Context of Rupert Gray: Trinidad at the Start of the Twentieth Century

The Literary Context of Rupert Gray

Notes on Editorial Procedures

Rupert Gray.

Contents.

References.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 22, 2016).

ISBN:

1-4356-3097-1

OCLC:

212626165