| The Last Enchantment Contributor(s): Dawes, Neville (Author) |
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ISBN: 1845231171 ISBN-13: 9781845231170 Publisher: Peepal Tree Press OUR PRICE: $17.05 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2010 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Political |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: Caribbean Modern Classics |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.3" W x 8" (0.85 lbs) 332 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Caribbean & West Indies |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this partly autobiographical novel, the death of Alphonso Tull heralds for his son, Ramsay, the beginning of a new Jamaica. His father has taught him to always show respect to white people. But in post-war Jamaica, black racial discontents and the desire for national independence are threatening the old colonial order. |