The drowned forest, Angela Barry
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The drowned forest, Angela Barry
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
The drowned forest
Medium
electronic resource
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dictionaries
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Angela Barry
Summary
In the discovery of a fossilized tree stump deep off the coast of Bermuda, Angela Barry finds a potent metaphor of long-term climate change against which to measure the alarms, resentments and hopes of future possibilities expressed by her characters as they respond to Bermuda's emergence from colonial status. Modernity brings challenges to the old racial, cultural and religious hierarchies that have dominated the island. Told through a group of characters brought together in shared responsibility for Genesis, a young Black adolescent on the verge of incarceration as a juvenile offender, and by Genesis herself, Barry explores a clashing of subcultures, each with the sense that their Bermuda is the one that possesses the island's virtues. There is Nina, from the respectable Black middle-class, with her own prickly uncertainties and moral hang-ups; Lizzie, fighting for her own space in a Portuguese family railing against changing times; Tess, battling with guilt over her white privilege and her reluctance to lose its benefits; and Hugh, a young Welshman who has come to the island to find himself. Above all, in the character of Genesis, Barry creates a dynamic and winning portrayal of the energies, hopes, conscience and vulnerabilities of youth. Beyond the human world with all its divisions, there are the little-known islands of Bermuda, for whose stunning beauties and sometimes urban ugliness Barry has a vividly descriptive eye
Target audience
adult
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- Bermuda Island (Bermuda Islands) -- Fiction
- Teenage girls, Black + Social conditions -- Fiction
- Electronic books
- Life change events -- Fiction
- Global environmental change -- Fiction
- Bermuda Island (Bermuda Islands) -- Race relations -- Fiction
- Social classes + Moral and ethical aspects -- Bermuda Islands -- Bermuda Island -- Fiction
- Bermuda Island (Bermuda Islands) -- Social conditions -- Fiction
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- Subject8
- Bermuda Island (Bermuda Islands) -- Fiction
- Teenage girls, Black + Social conditions -- Fiction
- Electronic books
- Life change events -- Fiction
- Global environmental change -- Fiction
- Bermuda Island (Bermuda Islands) -- Race relations -- Fiction
- Social classes + Moral and ethical aspects -- Bermuda Islands -- Bermuda Island -- Fiction
- Bermuda Island (Bermuda Islands) -- Social conditions -- Fiction
- Content1
- Author1