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Combining poetry, short stories, autobiographical essays, and critical writing, this comprehensive collection grants unrivalled access to an individual's passage through a rural Jamaican childhood, his literary influences, and involvement and frustration with postcolonial politics. In all manners of writing, including pieces that have never seen print before, his range and full vision are finally exposed in this compilation that demonstrativel...

In this partly autobiographical novel, Neville Dawes tells the story of Ramsay Tull, who is witness to the beginning of a new post-World War II Jamaica. Black racial discontents and the desire for national independence are threatening the old colonial order, but for Ramsay the first stage of his growth comes with the chance to study at Oxford University, where he becomes immersed in European literary culture and Marxism. On his return to Jamai...