| The Chosen Place, the Timeless People Contributor(s): Marshall, Paule (Author) |
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ISBN: 0394726332 ISBN-13: 9780394726335 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $19.95 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 1984 Annotation: The chosen place is Bourneville, a remote, devastated part of a Caribbean island; the timeless people are its inhabitants--black, poor, inextricably linked to their past enslavement. When the advance team for an ambitious American research project arrives, the tense, ambivalent relationships that evolve -- between natives and foreigners, blacks and whites, haves and have-nots -- keenly dramatize the vicissitudes of power. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Cultural Heritage |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 92081673 |
| Series: Vintage Contemporaries |
| Physical Information: 1.06" H x 5.22" W x 8" (0.83 lbs) 480 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Caribbean & West Indies - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The chosen place is Bourneville, a remote, devastated part of a Caribbean island; the timeless people are its inhabitants--black, poor, inextricably linked to their past enslavement. When the advance team for an ambitious American research project arrives, the tense, ambivalent relationships that evolve, between natives and foreigners, black and whites, haves and have-nots, keenly dramatize the vicissitudes of power. "An important and moving book . . . Marshall is as wise as she is bold, for in compromising neither her politics nor her understanding of people, she makes better sense of both."--Village Voice |