Satellite City and Other Stories (Longman Caribbean Writers)

by Alecia McKenzie

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The "Longman Caribbean Writers" comprises many classic novels, short stories and plays by the best known Caribbean authors, together with works of the highest quality from new writers. "Satellite City" is a collection of short stories set in Jamaica. Mckenzie represents a new generation of writers moving away from Jamaica's colonial times to themes of conflict between generations; sexual politics and gender expectations; class, wealth and poverty; language, politics and power, art and racial tensions. Mckenzie explores Caribbean history through relationsips and highlights the hypocrisies and evasions of Jamaican contemporary society.
  • ISBN10 0582086884
  • ISBN13 9780582086883
  • Publish Date 8 June 1992
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 15 January 1998
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Pearson Education Limited
  • Imprint Longman
  • Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
  • Pages 200
  • Language English