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Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack
Austin Clarke
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Description for Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack
Paperback. An autobiographical account of growing up in colonial Barbados during and after the Second World War. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: BGA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 128 x 13. Weight in Grams: 260.
Austin Clarke's classic story of British colonial education is the subject of Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack. It is the story of a boy whose mother struggled against seemingly impossible odds to give her son the best available education. Generations of Barbadians, and West Indians, will identify with young Austin Clarke, from the absentee father to the challenges of a daily life in a society based on colour and class prejudice and a rigid set of customs and rules imported from England and imposed on Caribbean society. Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack is more than a ... Read more
Austin Clarke's classic story of British colonial education is the subject of Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack. It is the story of a boy whose mother struggled against seemingly impossible odds to give her son the best available education. Generations of Barbadians, and West Indians, will identify with young Austin Clarke, from the absentee father to the challenges of a daily life in a society based on colour and class prejudice and a rigid set of customs and rules imported from England and imposed on Caribbean society. Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack is more than a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Signal Books Ltd
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781902669700
SKU
V9781902669700
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Ref
99-5
About Austin Clarke
AUSTIN CLARKE was born and educated in Barbados before emigrating to Canada in 1955. Since then he has worked as a journalist, lecturer and diplomat as well as producing many novels, short stories and essays.
Reviews for Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack
"Austin Clarke's sharpness of observation and his gift for rendering the music of peasant speech are a constant delight." - George Lamming