| Free Contributor(s): Mordecai, Martin (Author) |
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ISBN: 9766406812 ISBN-13: 9789766406813 Publisher: University of the West Indies Press OUR PRICE: $38.00 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Historical - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2018486559 |
| Physical Information: 1.32" H x 6" W x 9" (1.90 lbs) 592 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Martin Mordecai's Free is a lyrical yet unflinching examination of the ruinous intimacies sustained by and sustaining plantation slavery. Set around Jamaica's Christmas Rebellion of 1831-32 and framed around three characters who are free themselves, but hedged in by the oppressive protocols of slavery, Free is an extended meditation on violence, memory, community, love and forgiveness. Mordecai uses the ranges and registers of the creole continuum to seduce readers into a wrenching engagement with the deformation wrought by slavery upon everyone and everything it touched. |