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The last enchantment/ Neville Dawes

By:

Dawes, Neville

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Caribbean Modern ClassicsPublication details: Leeds, United Kingdom: Peepal Tree Press Ltd , 1960, 2009Description: 331 p. 21 cmSubject(s):

LOC classification:

PR9265.9.D393L37

Summary: Newly available after 40 years, this partly autobiographical love affair with the Jamaican language and landscape gives a penetrating look at the racial politics of the 1950s and 1960s and the search for self in a world divided by class. Ramsay Tull is witness to the black racial discontents and the desire for national independence that are threatening the old colonial order; but when a chance comes to study at Oxford University, he becomes immersed in European literary culture and Marxism. On his return to Jamaica, Ramsay becomes actively involved in radical nationalist politics and begins his second journey, away from his middle-class origins and back to a true appreciation of the Jamaican people.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Books	National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) Book Club	Book Club	PR9265.9.D393L37 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		2019040352

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Newly available after 40 years, this partly autobiographical love affair with the Jamaican language and landscape gives a penetrating look at the racial politics of the 1950s and 1960s and the search for self in a world divided by class. Ramsay Tull is witness to the black racial discontents and the desire for national independence that are threatening the old colonial order; but when a chance comes to study at Oxford University, he becomes immersed in European literary culture and Marxism. On his return to Jamaica, Ramsay becomes actively involved in radical nationalist politics and begins his second journey, away from his middle-class origins and back to a true appreciation of the Jamaican people.

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