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Livres anciens et modernes

De Lisser,Herbert G.

The White Witch of Rosehall

Macmillan Caribbean., 1986

10,00 €

Kalamos Books

(STREETSVILLE, Canada)

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Détails

Année
1986
ISBN
0333349695
Lieu d'édition
Kingston ON
Auteur
De Lisser,Herbert G.
Éditeurs
Macmillan Caribbean.
Edition
Reprint.
Thème
fICTION WEST INDIES CARIBBEAN JAMAICA
Description
S
Jaquette
Non
Etat de conservation
Tres bonne condition
Reliure
Couverture souple
Dédicacée
Non
Premiére Edition
Non

Description

A very striking and curious story, founded on fact, of the West Indies of the early nineteenth century. Robert Rutherford is sent to the Islands to learn the planter's business from the bottom. He becomes an overseer at Rosehall, the property of a young widow, Mrs Palmer, whose three husbands have all died in curious circumstances. She takes a violent fancy to Rutherford, who is also embarrassed by the attentions of his half-caste housekeeper, Millicent. His housekeeper is urging him, with some success, to fall in with West Indian habits, when Mrs Palmer arrives. Millicent defies her and threatens her with the powers of Takoo, an Obeah man. Mrs Palmer, herself skilled in Obeah magic, puts a spell on the girl, which Takoo's rites, shattered by the white woman's stronger magic, are powerless to remove. de Lisser utilizes the conventions of a romantic entanglement to investigate and debate the wider socio-political issues within the novel that relate to colonialism, Jamaican identity and culture