Going Home to Teach (Anthony C. Winkler Collection) - Softcover

Anthony C. Winkler

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1405068833 ISBN 13: 9781405068833

Publisher: Macmillan Caribbean, 2006

Synopsis

This autobiographical account of the year Winkler spent at a rural teacher training college flashes back to the Jamaica of the narrator's childhood, recounting incidents and vignettes that shed light on the muddle of competing personalities, doctrines and images of self, currently vying for centre stage in the tumult of Jamaican life. Emerging form the story are the hilariously drawn characters, contrasts between the Jamaican and the American outlook, and the lessons about the perils of superimposing a foreign ideology onto a native culture.

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Review:

"In Going Home to Teach Winkler's strength as a writer lies in the vividness of his descriptions, the power of his imagery, and the range of his vocabulary...." --Elaine Reynolds, The Sunday Observer

"... Anthony Winkler is a man who lives and breathes the island's culture and customs, speaks and writes in the musical rhythms of its language, understands the unending struggle for survival and dignity that is every Jamaican's lot" --Vincent Coppola, Atlanta Magazine

About this edition

• Publisher: Macmillan Caribbean
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1405068833
• ISBN 13: 9781405068833
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 318