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Salt (Lovelace Novel)
''Salt'' is a 1996 novel by Trinidad and Tobago, Trinidadian author Earl Lovelace. It won the 1997 Commonwealth_Foundation_prizes#Commonwealth_Writers'_Prize, Commonwealth Writers' Prize. Plot Alford George, son of a poor farm labourer on Trinidad (island), Trinidad, does not speak until the age of six, and grows up as an outsider; later he becomes a teacher and then a politician, and dreams of leaving his homeland for Great Britain. His ancestor, Guinea John, led an 1805 slave rebellion and then apparently flew back to Africa; the other slaves had eaten too much salt and could not fly with him. Reception In ''The Times (UK), The Times'', a reviewer said, "As to Lovelace's language, he is in a world of his own. It is a carnival of Creole sounds, and this is the deepest ideology of the novel, the display of the power of West Indian speech, the emancipation of the West Indian tongue from the shackles of the English sentence." The ''Publishers Weekly'' review noted: "Using languag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Earl Lovelace
Earl Wilbert Lovelace (born 13 July 1935) is a Trinidad and Tobago novelist, journalist, playwright, and short story writer. He is particularly recognized for his descriptive, dramatic fiction on Trinidadian culture: "Using Trinidadian dialect patterns and standard English, he probes the paradoxes often inherent in social change as well as the clash between rural and urban cultures." As Bernardine Evaristo notes, "Lovelace is unusual among celebrated Caribbean writers in that he has always lived in Trinidad. Most writers leave to find support for their literary endeavours elsewhere and this, arguably, shapes the literature, especially after long periods of exile. But Lovelace's fiction is deeply embedded in Trinidadian society and is written from the perspective of one whose ties to his homeland have never been broken."Bernardine Evaristo"Is Just a Movie by Earl Lovelace – review. An incisive and witty portrait of Trinidadian society..." ''The Guardian'' (London), 29 January 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |