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Author Paravisini-Gebert, Lizabeth

Title Phyllis Shand Allfrey : a Caribbean life / Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert
Published New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©1996

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 335 pages)
Summary "Phyllis Shand Allfrey is the first biography of one of the Caribbean's most intriguing writers and politicians. Allfrey (1908-1986) is best known as the author of The Orchid House, a fictionalized account of her early life that was turned into a highly acclaimed film for British television." "Born to a prominent family of formerly wealthy sugar planters in Dominica, Allfrey followed an unexpected path: a rising novelist (who is often paired with Jean Rhys in critical discussion) and Fabian socialist in England and the United States, she returned to Dominica to organize the peasantry and estate workers into the island's first political party. Ostracized by the white elite into which she was born, she led the Dominica Labour party to power and became the West Indian Federation's only woman (and only white) minister, only to find herself expelled from the party when the rise of black nationalism made it expedient." "The biography recreates Allfrey's life as it unfolds against the background of twentieth-century Caribbean political and literary history, from the decline of the planter class through the rise of party politics and the efforts to join the anglophone West Indies into a federation, to the troubled sixties and seventies, decades marked by racial violence and the emergence of the former British territories from colonial control. This volume includes five autobiographical stories that have long been out of print."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-324) and index
Notes English
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Subject Allfrey, P. Shand (Phyllis Shand)
SUBJECT Allfrey, P. Shand (Phyllis Shand) fast
Subject Women and literature -- Dominica -- History -- 20th century
Authors, Dominican -- 20th century -- Biography
Women politicians -- Dominica -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
Authors, Dominican
Women and literature
Women politicians
SUBJECT Caribbean Area -- Biography
Subject Caribbean Area
Dominica
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0585172552
9780585172552
9780813522654
081352265X
9780813522647
0813522641
0813557895
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