Stories from the Caribbean

By Andrew Salkey

Book Overview

The Caribbean area--a scattering of ethnic and racial groups with a history of colonialism and bloody attempts to assert nationhood--provides an exciting background for these tales of wit, melancholy, resentment, fantasy, and superstition. If the Caribbeans are searching for a newness, a cool upheaval of the spirit, as Salkey suggests in the introduction, then the writers gathered together here--from the outstanding such as V. S. Naipaul, Samuel Selvon, and John Hearne to the younger, little-known, and never before published--are true to this spirit.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871402297
• ISBN13: 9780871402295
• Release Date: September 1970
• Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 8.0"