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Crown Jewel
Review by Anthony Milne, Journalist.
De Boissiere's best-known novels are Crown Jewel, set in the 1930s at
the time of the Butler riots in the oilfields of south Trinidad--part of
the general disturbances in the British Caribbean in the 1930s--and Rum
and Coca Cola, which takes place during the Second World War when
thousands of American soldiers came to Trinidad to build and man
military bases.
University of the West Indies Professor Ken Ramchand says "De
Boissiere's work combines social realism and political commitment with a
concern for the culture of the feeling within the individual in a way
that is unique not only among West Indian writers but among writers with
a social conscience
anywhere in the world."
Ramchand stresses that Crown Jewel and Rum and Coca Cola are essential
reading for an understanding of the rich possibilities of young Trinidad
in the 1930s and 1940s and the subtle makings of what renowned WI writer
Sam Selvon called "the Trinidadian person."
The book made its way to Eastern Europe, where it was translated into
six or seven languages, and also found its way home to Trinidad. In
1982, it was published in Britain after Salman Rushdie praised it...
and... it received a good review in the New York Review of Books."
-- Anthony Milne. has worked as a journalist with Trinidad Express
newspapers since July 1981, covering politics, parliament and just about
everything else under the sun.
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Tribute and Praise For Crown Jewel
In the words of University of the West Indies Professor, Ken Ramchand, de Boissiere’s work, "combines social realism and political commitment with a concern for the culture of the feeling within the individual in a way that is unique not only among West Indian writers but among writers with a social conscience anywhere in the world." Ramchand says that Crown Jewel is essential reading for an understanding of the rich possibilities of young Trinidad in the 1930s and 1940s and the subtle makings of what renowned West Indian writer, Sam Selvon, called "the Trinidadian".
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Manuscript Collection:
The National Library of Australia.
Critical Study:
The Trinidad Awakening: West Indian Literature of the 1930s by Reinhard Sander, Westport, Connecticut, Greenwood Press, 1988.
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