Tracing Ja Ja by Kellman, Anthony

Tracing Ja Ja (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781845232993)

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Format: Paperback
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Tracing Ja Ja by Kellman, Anthony

Tracing Ja Ja

$18.95
Tracing Ja Ja by Kellman, Anthony

Tracing Ja Ja

$18.95
Format: Paperback
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Based on the life of accomplished merchant prince King Ja Ja of Opobo, Anthony Kellman has created a richly imaginative and warmly human work of historical fiction. Weaving between the official records and the satirical and cynical traditions of the "tuk" song, Tracing Ja Ja traces the emerging love between an ailing African king in exile and his Barbadian servant Becka. When Jubo Jubogba began life as a trader's slave, paddling the great house's canoes, no one could've predicted his meteoric ascent to become Ja Ja of Opobo, a sage merchant king of the Niger's rich river delta. Kellman's psychological insight crosses ages and cultures, with a poet's perception of the beauties of his island's flora and fauna.

Author: Anthony Kellman
ISBN-10: 1845232992
ISBN-13: 9781845232993
Publisher: Peepal Tree Press
Language: English
Published: 07/01/2016
Pages: 164
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.30w x 0.50d
By Anthony Kellman
By Anthony Kellman
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Anthony Kellman is a professor of English and creative writing. He finds considerable resonances between the Caribbean and the Southern states in the USA, which feed into his poetry, where blue jays, dogwoods and wisteria rub shoulders with angel fish, sugarcane and coral reefs. In 1990 Peepal Tree published his third book of poetry, Watercourse, (which appeared with a glowing endorsement from Edouard Glissant), the novel, The Coral Rooms (1994), The Long Gap (1996) and Wings of a Stranger (2000).

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