Phyllis Shand Allfrey :a Caribbean life
- 作者: Paravisini-Gebert, Lizabeth.
- 出版: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press ©1996.
- 稽核項: 1 online resource (xii, 335 pages).
- 標題: Femmes et littérature Dominique -- Histoire -- 20e siècle. , Dominica. , Femmes politiques , Caraïbes (Région) , Electronic books. , Caraïbes (Région) Biographies. , Caribbean Area Biography. , Femmes et littérature , Écrivains dominicains , Authors, Dominican. , Women politicians , BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Literary. , Authors, Dominican 20th century -- Biography. , Biographies. , History. , Allfrey, P. Shand (Phyllis Shand) , Women and literature , BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY , Women and literature Dominica -- History -- 20th century. , 1900-1999 , Écrivains dominicains 20e siècle -- Biographies. , Caribbean Area , Caribbean Area. , Women politicians Dominica -- Biography. , LITERARY CRITICISM , Allfrey, P. Shand , LITERARY CRITICISM American -- General. , English. , Femmes politiques Dominique -- Biographies. , Women and literature. , History , Women politicians. , AmericanGeneral. , Histoire , Literary. , Authors, Dominican , Languages & Literatures. , English Literature.
- ISBN: 0813557895 , 9780813557892
- ISBN: 0813522641 , 081352265X
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- 附註: Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-324) and index.
- 摘要: "Phyllis Shand Allfrey is the first biography of one of the Caribbean's most intriguing writers and politicians. Allfrey (1908-1986) is best known as the author of The Orchid House, a fictionalized account of her early life that was turned into a highly acclaimed film for British television." "Born to a prominent family of formerly wealthy sugar planters in Dominica, Allfrey followed an unexpected path: a rising novelist (who is often paired with Jean Rhys in critical discussion) and Fabian socialist in England and the United States, she returned to Dominica to organize the peasantry and estate workers into the island's first political party. Ostracized by the white elite into which she was born, she led the Dominica Labour party to power and became the West Indian Federation's only woman (and only white) minister, only to find herself expelled from the party when the rise of black nationalism made it expedient." "The biography recreates Allfrey's life as it unfolds against the background of twentieth-century Caribbean political and literary history, from the decline of the planter class through the rise of party politics and the efforts to join the anglophone West Indies into a federation, to the troubled sixties and seventies, decades marked by racial violence and the emergence of the former British territories from colonial control. This volume includes five autobiographical stories that have long been out of print."--Jacket.
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"Phyllis Shand Allfrey is the first biography of one of the Caribbean's most intriguing writers and politicians. Allfrey (1908-1986) is best known as the author of The Orchid House, a fictionalized account of her early life that was turned into a highly acclaimed film for British television." "Born to a prominent family of formerly wealthy sugar planters in Dominica, Allfrey followed an unexpected path: a rising novelist (who is often paired with Jean Rhys in critical discussion) and Fabian socialist in England and the United States, she returned to Dominica to organize the peasantry and estate workers into the island's first political party. Ostracized by the white elite into which she was born, she led the Dominica Labour party to power and became the West Indian Federation's only woman (and only white) minister, only to find herself expelled from the party when the rise of black nationalism made it expedient." "The biography recreates Allfrey's life as it unfolds against the background of twentieth-century Caribbean political and literary history, from the decline of the planter class through the rise of party politics and the efforts to join the anglophone West Indies into a federation, to the troubled sixties and seventies, decades marked by racial violence and the emergence of the former British territories from colonial control. This volume includes five autobiographical stories that have long been out of print."--Jacket.
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