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.
- ISBN10 1405068833
- ISBN13 9781405068833
- Publish Date 31 July 2006
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Macmillan Education
- Imprint Macmillan Caribbean
- Format Paperback
- Pages 328
- Language English