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Key ideas from the book
- The novel presents Bourneville as a remote, devastated Caribbean community.
- Its inhabitants are Black and poor, with lives inextricably linked to the past of enslavement.
- An ambitious American research project introduces an outside presence into the community.
- The arrival of the research team produces tense and ambivalent relationships.
- The book explores race relations and social life in a Caribbean setting.
About The Chosen Place, The Timeless People by Paule Marshall
Published in 1969, The Chosen Place, The Timeless People is a work of fiction set in Bourneville, a remote and devastated part of a Caribbean island. Its inhabitants are Black, poor, and closely bound to the history of enslavement that shaped their community.
The arrival of an advance team for an ambitious American research project brings outside attention to Bourneville and creates tense, ambivalent relationships. With its focus on race relations, social life, and the experiences of Black people in the Caribbean, the novel will interest readers of literary fiction and twentieth-century Caribbean writing.
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