Man Who Ran Away And Other Stories of Trinidad in the 1920s And 1930s

Mendes, Alfred H.

ISBN 10: 976640173X / ISBN 13: 9789766401733

Published by University Press of the West Ind, 2006

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Man Who Ran Away And Other Stories of Trinidad in the 1920s And 1930s
• Publisher: University Press of the West Ind
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 976640173X
• ISBN 13: 9789766401733
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

Alfred H. Mendes was a member of the Beacon group of writers in Trinidad in the 1930s and friend and colleague of C.L.R. James and Ralph de Boissiere. He was a prolific writer, with a distinctive and engaging voice, and he wrote a significant number of short stories, many of which have never been published and most of which were written between 1920 and 1940.

"The Man Who Ran Away" is a collection of twelve stories with an introduction and short glossary of Trinidadian Creole words and phrases. The book is useful as a text for university literature courses, with an introduction designed for students unfamiliar with Mendes's work, but not so dauntingly academic as to discourage a general readership.

About the Author

MICHÈLE LEVY is an independent researcher and academic writer. She has taught at secondary and tertiary levels, and has tutored and lectured in the Department of Literatures in English, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. She is the editor of The Autobiography of Alfred H. Mendes, 1897–1991, two collections of Mendes’s short stories, and an anthology of his stories, poetry and journalism.