The middle passage : impressions of five colonial societies
Naipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad), 1932-20182011
Book
In 1960, Dr Eric Williams, the first Prime Minister of independent Trinidad, invited V.S. Naipaul to revisit his native country and record his impressions. In this classic of modern travel writing he created a deft and remarkably prescient portrait of Trinidad and the Caribbean societies of four adjacent countries, Guyana, Surinam, Martinique and Jamaica. Haunted by the legacies of slavery and colonialism, and so thoroughly defined by the norms of Empire that it can scarcely comprehend its end, Naipaul catches this poor, topsy-turvy world at a critical moment, a time when racial and political assertion had yet to catch up - a perfect subject for the acute understanding and dazzling prose of this great writer.
Main title:
The middle passage : impressions of five colonial societies / V.S. Naipaul.
Imprint:
London : Picador, 2011.
Collation:
xi, 243 p. : map ; 20 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: London : Andre Deutsch, 1962.
ISBN:
9780330522953
Dewey class:
52917.2904
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
53461
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Library at the Dock | -Travel | TRAVEL 917.2904 NAIP | Available |