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Two Plays

Two Plays


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Both of the plays in this volume focus closely and dramatically on the pressures on the creative imagination of the writer and artist in the Caribbean. "Couvade," which was first performed in Guyana in 1972 and published in 1974, references the Amerindian ritual where the man takes to his bed and "suffers" some pains equivalent to the pangs of childbirth while his female partner is in actual labor. On one realistic but symbolic level, Lionel's wife Pat is in the latest stages of her pregnancy, but in her view her artist husband has become obsessed with the Amerindian-themed painting he is working on, to the detriment of his concern for her. At another ritual level in the drama, apparent only to Lionel in his dreams, a shaman enacts a collective ritual of offering and celebration of the gods. "A Pleasant Career" is based on the biography of the pioneering and conflicted Guyanese novelist, Edgar Mittelholzer. His career begins with the ludicrous ambition in the 1930s to be an internationally known writer in a society that has no conception of the artist or writer as other than something that comes from overseas. The play explores Mittelholzer's early negotiations of the race and class hierarchies of color in British Guyana, his own position as the "swarthy" boy in a predominantly white family, and his resolute determination to beat down the doors of the London publishing world.
About the Author: Michael Gilkes has recently been a Quillian Visiting Professor at Randolph-Macon Women's College. Prior to that, he taught at the University of Guyana, the University of the West Indies in Barbados, and Sir Arthur Lewis Community College in St. Lucia. He is a distinguished Caribbean critic, dramatist, lecturer, and more recently a filmmaker. He is the author of "Joanstown," winner of the Guyana Prize for best book of poetry; "The Last of the Redmen," winner of the Guyana Prize for drama;" The Literate Imagination"; "A Pleasant Career," winner of the Guyana Prize for drama;" The West Indian Novel," and "Wilson Harris and the Caribbean Novel."


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781845231897
  • Publisher: Peepal Tree Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Peepal Tree Press
  • Depth: 13
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 15 mm
  • Weight: 231 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1845231899
  • Publisher Date: 07 Jul 2014
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 203 mm
  • No of Pages: 152
  • Series Title: Caribbean Modern Classics
  • Sub Title: Couvade and a Pleasant Career
  • Width: 135 mm


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