Crucifixion

by Ismith Khan

Overview

Told in two voices, one standard English, the other Creole, this novel is an ironic fable of a tragi-comic self-deception. It portrays the tensions between authority, freedom, law, and love in Trinidadian society through the character Manko and the stories of the other local yard dwellers. These range from memories of Trinidad's popular uprisings to a prostitute's narrative of what has led to her occupation. In exploring the popular folk archetype of the self-crucified preacher, the novel takes the balladic form of the calypso to greater depths.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780948833045
Publisher:	Peepal Tree Press Ltd.
Publication date:	01/01/2008
Series:	Caribbean Classics Series
Pages:	132
Product dimensions:	5.75(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.41(d)

About the Author

Ismith Khan is the author of numerous books, including The Jumbie Bird and The Obeah Man. His short stories have been included in several anthologies, including Caribbean Rhythms, From the Green Antilles, and New Writing in the Caribbean.

Editorial Reviews

"Students of Caribbean literature will certainly be delighted that after such a long hiatus another novel by this talented Trinidadian novelist is in print." —Daryl C Dance, Review of West Indian Literature



"The Crucifixion is a tightly-written, convincing work in the 'barrack-yard' tradition, full of the lives and blighted hopes of those at the bottom of the heap who are searching for their own, individual escape routes to tunnel through to the light." —Chris Searle, West Indian Digest

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