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Warner Arundell - The Adventures of a Creole (Paperback)
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Warner Arundell - The Adventures of a Creole (Paperback)
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Warner Arundell: The Adventures of a Creole (1838) is a novel by
Edward Lanzer Joseph. Published in the last year of Joseph's life,
the novel claims to be an edited version of the memoirs of Warner
Arundell, a Creole lawyer and doctor from Grenada. A common
literary trope of the time, this grants a modicum of authority to
the author while maintaining his distance from events that may have
been drawn from his own experiences. Believed to be the first novel
set in Trinidad, Warner Arundell: The Adventures of a Creole is a
groundbreaking work of Caribbean literature that continues to
inform readers of the Creole experience in the Americas. "As we
entered the town, I was absolutely rendered giddy by the opulence
and grandeur of the shops, the thronging of the population, and the
deafening noise; while the smoky atmosphere, unlike aught I ever
before beheld, weighed down my spirits." When an encounter with
fraudulent lawyers leaves him penniless, he travels to Venezuela
and England to study law and medicine before returning to the New
World in search of fortune. Along the way, he embarks on several
adventures, meets the African-descended side of his family, and
falls in love with a beautiful Venezuelan woman. Originally written
to shed light on the "many abuses in [the] West Indian Colonial
System," the novel has since been recognized as a pioneering work
of Caribbean literature which continues to inform the postcolonial
perspective on race, class, and identity in the British colonial
era. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset
manuscript, this edition of Edward Lanzer Joseph's Warner Arundell:
The Adventures of a Creole is a classic of Caribbean literature
reimagined for modern readers.
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