The Middle Passage: The Caribbean Revisited

The Middle Passage: The Caribbean Revisited

In 1960 the government of Trinidad invited V. S. Naipaul to revisit his native country and record his impressions. In this classic of modern travel writing he has created a deft and remarkably prescient portrait of Trinidad and four adjacent Caribbean societiesâ€“countries haunted by the legacies of slavery and colonialism and so thoroughly defined by the norms of Empire that they can scarcely believe that the Empire is ending.
In The Middle Passage, Naipaul watches a Trinidadian movie audience greeting Humphrey Bogartâ€™s appearance with cries of â€œThat is man!â€ He ventures into a Trinidad slum so insalubrious that the locals call it the Gaza Strip. He follows a racially charged election campaign in British Guiana (now Guyana) and marvels at the Gallic pretension of Martinique society, which maintains the fiction that its roads are extensions of Franceâ€™s routes nationales. And throughout he relates the ghastly episodes of the regionâ€™s colonial past and shows how they continue to inform its language, politics, and values. The result is a work of novelistic vividness and dazzling perspicacity that displays Naipaul at the peak of his powers.
Country USA
Brand Vintage
Manufacturer Vintage
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 375708340
Color Black
ReleaseDate 2002-01-08
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780375708343

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