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Title: |
A Map of the Island |
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| By (author): |
Nigel Darbasie |
| ISBN10-13: |
0888643713 : 9780888643711 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Size: |
228x152x6mm |
| Pages: |
80 |
| Weight: |
.140 Kg. |
| Published: |
University of Alberta Press - May 2001 |
| List Price: |
14.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
In Stock
Qty Available: 5 |
| Subjects: |
Poetry : Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 : Literary studies: poetry & poets : Black & Asian studies |
| A Map of the Island is an extended poetic meditation upon a boy's youth in Trinidad. In these verses we hear the cadences of the West Indies spoken from the distance of the Canadian prairies. |
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"In its entirety, the collection forms a cultural mosaic taking the reader on a relatively gentle, yet disruptive, post-colonial journey. Separately, each poem stands on its own as an elegantly written snapshot from a single lifetime. The inclusion of actual photos on the back cover complete the autobiographical framework and gives this text a sense of authenticity within a poetic vision that simultaneously threatens and challenges the notion of the authentic at every turn.... A Map of the Island stands alone as a beautifully connected mosaic that also exists separately as individual poems laying claim to the experience of youth - both connected and disconnected by geography, material goods, nation, and colonialist disruption." David Bateman, Canadian Ethnic Studies.
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"Darbasie takes his readers on an intimate journey that encompasses the "landmarks of [his] fascination," (44) namely the fault lines where one reality collides with another, and identities converge. At once colloquial and esoteric, autobiographical and political, the poems are guided by two main metaphors: music and carnival, two of the island's richest traditions. The collection's "playful romp / among Old World, New World roots" (57) is framed by the overarching metaphor of the island, both a geographical place and a microcosm of the world." Stephanie Heidenreich, Prairie Fire Review of Books (see full review at www.prairiefire.mb.ca/reviews/darbasie_n.html)
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".charming and delightful." Douglas Barbour, The Edmonton Journal
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"His poems evoke the life, conflicts and memories of the West Indies, told through a prairie perspective, as he struggles to understand the meaning of home." Prairie Books Now
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"Darbasie's poetry is as rhythmic and musical as the Calypso musicians who provided the background sound for his childhood." Naton Leslie, MultiCultural Review
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