Hills Were Joyful Together Mais Roger
Struggling to survive in the Kingston tenement yard, Surjue falls under the spell of the trickster figure Flitters. Arrested for robbery, he finds himself sentenced to the appalling world of a…
Specifikacia Hills Were Joyful Together Mais Roger
Struggling to survive in the Kingston tenement yard, Surjue falls under the spell of the trickster figure Flitters. Arrested for robbery, he finds himself sentenced to the appalling world of a Jamaican colonial prison, far from his woman, surrounded by his suffering people.This is a brutal and stark novel, full of Mais's prophetic rage and railing against the imprisonment felt both inside and outside jail. And whilst the novel displays an unflinching and deeply distressing realism, it is unquestionably also a work of art with a genuinely tragic vision.Roger Mais (1905-1955) was born into a comfortable, educated middle-class Jamaican family. He was swept up in the riots and workers rebellion of 1938, and thereafter was a wholly committed activist and Jamaican nationalist. His 1944 critique of Churchill's imperialist ideology, Now We Know, brought