Flakes of Dark and Light (ePub)
Tales from Southern Africa and Elsewhere
(Sprache: Englisch)
The title Flakes of Dark and Light is evocative of the sharp flakes of insight and colour which characterise these tales. The tales in the first part mostly depict an African setting and, in fact, are more recent, often suggesting the climate of change and...
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The title Flakes of Dark and Light is evocative of the sharp flakes of insight and colour which characterise these tales. The tales in the first part mostly depict an African setting and, in fact, are more recent, often suggesting the climate of change and violence that has gripped southern Africa in the last two decades. The stories in the second part were inspired by a more English tradition and, in fact, capture the climate of change that brooded over life during the Thirties and the war years. A contemporary of Ted Hughes, and with many of his stories set in the depressed, sometimes seedy England of the Thirties and Forties which Graham Greene depicted in his early novels, its not surprising that Roy Hollands images and sentences are like flakes that cut like broken glass. A true artist, he does not take sides, but holds up a mirror to show life as it isorwaswhether in a pre-war England or an Africa ravaged by drought and violence. His tales are snapshots, truthful, sometimes startling, of two quite distinct cultures. However disparate they may seem, one is invariably aware of an underlying tenderness and sympathetic vision in the portrayal of character, regardless of race or background, that binds them together.
Autoren-Porträt von Roy Holland
Roy Holland was born in Birmingham. He went to Africa in 1966 to teach in the universities of the Boleswa countries. He was Professor of English at the University of the North, the University of Venda, as well as Dean of the Faculty of Arts in the later 80’s. He retired early to write full-time. Recently he has returned to England to settle in Dorset.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Roy Holland
- 2001, 1 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: iUniverse
- ISBN-10: 1462080979
- ISBN-13: 9781462080977
- Erscheinungsdatum: 28.02.2001
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