The Middle Passage: The Caribbean Revisited (Picador Travel Classics Ser.: Vol. 14)
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- Synopsis
- From the Nobel Prize-winning author comes a classic of modern travel writing—a deft portrait of Trinidad and the four adjacent Caribbean societies still haunted by the legacies of slavery and colonialism.&“Belongs in the same category of travel writing as Lawrence&’s books on Italy, Greene&’s on West Africa and Pritchett&’s on Spain.&” —New StatesmanIn 1960 the government of Trinidad invited V. S. Naipaul to revisit his native country and record his impressions. In The Middle Passage, Naipaul watches a Trinidadian movie audience greeting Humphrey Bogart&’s appearance with cries of &“That is man!&” He ventures into a Trinidad slum so insalubrious that the locals call it the Gaza Strip. He follows a racially charged election campaign in British Guiana (now Guyana) and marvels at the Gallic pretension of Martinique society, which maintains the fiction that its roads are extensions of France&’s routes nationales. And throughout he relates the ghastly episodes of the region&’s colonial past and shows how they continue to inform its language, politics, and values. The result is a work of novelistic vividness and dazzling perspicacity that displays Naipaul at the peak of his powers.
- Copyright:
- 1990
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 256 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780307776532
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780375708343
- Publisher:
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Date of Addition:
- 09/20/23
- Copyrighted By:
- V.S. Naipaul
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Travel
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- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.