Name: Palace of the Peacock (Faber Editions): 'A Masterpiece'- Monique Roffey
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Author: Jamaica Kincaid
ISBN: 9780571368044

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Palace of the Peacock (Faber Editions): 'A Masterpiece'- Monique Roffey

Type

Physical Book

Author

Wilson Harris

Preface by

Jamaica Kincaid

Publisher

Faber and Faber

Year

2021

Language

English

Pages

160

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19.6 x 12.4 x 1.3 cm

Weight

0.16 kg.

ISBN13

9780571368044

Synopsis "Palace of the Peacock (Faber Editions): 'A Masterpiece'- Monique Roffey "

A radical landmark in Caribbean literature, reissued with a new foreword by Jamaica Kincaid to mark Wilson Harris' centenary: a visionary masterpiece tracing the dreamlike voyage of a riverboat crew through the jungle. I dreamt I awoke with one dead seeing eye and one living closed eye ... A crew of men are embarking on a voyage up a turbulent river through the rainforests of Guyana. Their domineering leader, Donne, is the spirit of a conquistador, obsessed with hunting for a mysterious woman and exploiting indigenous people as plantation labour. But their expedition is plagued by tragedies, haunted by drowned ghosts: spectres of the crew themselves, inhabiting a blurred shadowland between life and death. As their journey into the interior - their own hearts of darkness - deepens, it assumes a spiritual dimension, guiding them towards a new destination: the Palace of the Peacock ... A modernist fever dream; prose poem; modern myth; elegy to victims of colonial conquest: Wilson Harris' masterpiece has defied definition for over sixty years, and is reissued for a new generation of readers. The Guyanese William Blake ... [Such] poetic intensity. -- Angela Carter

Jamaica Kincaid

(Preface by)

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Jamaica Kincaid (born Elaine Cynthia Potter Richardson in 1949, Saint John's, Antigua and Barbuda) is a Caribbean-American writer and essayist known for her lyrical style and focus on themes such as identity, colonialism, and family relationships. At 17, she moved to New York, where she worked as an au pair and later adopted the pseudonym Jamaica Kincaid. She collaborated with The New Yorker magazine from 1976 to 1995. Currently, she resides in Vermont and has been a professor at Harvard University

Among her most notable works are Annie John (1985), A Small Place (1988), Lucy (1990), The Autobiography of My Mother (1995), My Brother (1997), and Mr. Potter (2002). Her work has been translated into multiple languages and has received awards such as the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and the Prix Femina Étranger. Kincaid is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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