Creole chips and other writings : short fiction, drama, poetry, and essays / Edgar Mittelholzer ; edited by Juanita Cox.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mittelhölzer, Edgar, author.

Contributor:

Cox, Juanita, editor.

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Standardized Title:

Works. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Guyanese literature--20th century.

Guyanese literature.

Genre:

Literature.

Physical Description:

448 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Leeds, England : Peepal Tree Press Ltd, 2018.

Contents:

Fiction

Creole Chips p. 19

The Adding Machine p. 37

Short Stories

Miss Clarke is Dying p. 81

Something Fishy p. 86

Breakdown p. 90

Samlal p. 94

The Cruel Fate of Karl and Pierre p. 100

Jasmine and the Angels p. 108

West Indian Rights p. 114

The Pawpaw Tree p. 121

The Burglar p. 125

Tacama p. 128

We Know Not Whom to Mourn p. 132

Sorrow Dam and Mr Millbank p. 137

Mr Jones of Port of Spain p. 141

Amiable Mr Britten p. 147

A Plague of Kindnesses p. 151

The Sibilant and Lost p. 155

Wedding Day p. 160

Portrait with a Background p. 166

Only a Ghost We'll Need p. 173

Hurricane Season p. 178

Towards Martin's Bay p. 183

Gerald p. 187

Heat in the Jungle p. 193

Herr Pfangle p. 197

Writing for Children: Poolwana's Orchid p. 207

Drama

The Sub-Committee p. 225

Before the Curtain Rose p. 230

Village in Guiana p. 237

Borderline Business p. 249

The Twisted Man p. 310

Poetry

Farewell to a Woman p. 361

Epithalamium p. 362

Colonial Artist in War-time p. 363

Mood of February 11th 1940 p. 371

Reality p. 372

For Me - the Backyard p. 373

Dove on Gasparee p. 374

In the Beginning - Now - and Then p. 375

Pitch-walk Mood p. 377

Meditations of a Man Slightly Drunk p. 379

The Virgin p. 380

October 7th p. 381

Island Tints p. 382

For Better Things p. 390

Evening at Staubles Trinidad p. 391

Poet Creating p. 392

To the Memory of Ken Johnson p. 393

Just Between Us p. 394

Death in Prospect p. 395

Reality at Mid-day p. 396

Mazaruni Rocks p. 397

Afternoon Reflections p. 398

Essays & Personal Writing

New Amsterdam p. 401

Canje p. 402

Of Casuarinas and Cliffs p. 404

Carnival Close-up p. 407

Masqueraders p. 410

Romantic Promenade p. 411

Van Batenberg of Berbice p. 413

Colour, Class and Letters p. 416

Roger Mais p. 422

Literary Criticism and the Creative Writer p. 424

The Torment of Technique p. 428

At 43, A Personal View of the World p. 433

Intellectual Sissies p. 442.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

184523300X

9781845233006

OCLC:

953598897

Publisher Number:

99976265184