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

• Autore: Thompson Ralph
• Pubblicazione: Tirril [England] ; ; Penrith, Calif., : Humanities-Ebooks, 2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (191 p.)
• Soggetto geografico: Jamaica Poetry
• Altri autori: LennardJohn
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: ""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 ""
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: View from Mount Diablo
• ISBN: 1-282-17214-X; 9786612172144
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910969332403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II