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October 23, 2019
I just completed reading "God's Angry Babies" by Ian G. Strachan, a Bahamian playwright and novelist.
This novel is precisely why I launched my international reading project, hoping to discover authors I have never heard of who are creating wonderful written works of note.
Prior to independence from Great Britain, The Bahamas had an almost nonexistent literary tradition as all schoolchildren were educated with traditional British works. Upon achieving independence in 1973, it became culturally critical for Bahamians to find their own voice. Having experienced over 300 years of minority white rule, the black majority, made up of former slaves, colonial settlers and pirates has been undergoing a generational evolution.
Strachan is a member of that second generation who possess greater education and a post-colonial worldview that is more likely to hold the governing elite accountable rather than hold them up as liberation heroes.
"God's Angry Babies" is a novel that tells the story, in both proper English and the Creole vernacular, of that political and cultural evolution.
Though a noted playwright, this was Strachan's first novel. I look forward to future works.
This novel is precisely why I launched my international reading project, hoping to discover authors I have never heard of who are creating wonderful written works of note.
Prior to independence from Great Britain, The Bahamas had an almost nonexistent literary tradition as all schoolchildren were educated with traditional British works. Upon achieving independence in 1973, it became culturally critical for Bahamians to find their own voice. Having experienced over 300 years of minority white rule, the black majority, made up of former slaves, colonial settlers and pirates has been undergoing a generational evolution.
Strachan is a member of that second generation who possess greater education and a post-colonial worldview that is more likely to hold the governing elite accountable rather than hold them up as liberation heroes.
"God's Angry Babies" is a novel that tells the story, in both proper English and the Creole vernacular, of that political and cultural evolution.
Though a noted playwright, this was Strachan's first novel. I look forward to future works.
October 3, 2015
Not what I expected.
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