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Drama African

Coups and Calypsos

by (author) M. NourbeSe Philip

Publisher
The Mercury Press
Initial publish date
Sep 2001
Category
African
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781551280905
    Publish Date
    Sep 2001
    List Price
    $16.95

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A military coup sweeps across the twin island state of Trinidad and Tobago. Elvira, a doctor, and Rohan, an English professor, now separated after a stormy marriage, are confined to a beach house during a curfew. Their relationship has foundered on issues of race, identity and politics. The radio informs the beach house of the danger of the insurrection outside. Can they survive their own emotional war?
Coups and Calypsos was produced in London, England, and Toronto, and was shortlisted for a Dora Award.

About the author

M. NourbeSe Philip is the author of the play Coups and Calypsos, two novels, Looking for Livingstone: An Odyssey of Silence, and Harriet’s Daughter (Heinemann; The Women’s Press); three non-fiction works, Frontiers, Showing Grit, and A Genealogy of Resistance; and three books of poetry, including She Tries Her Tongue and Her Silence Softly Breaks, winner of the Casa de las Americas Prize. She is a Fellow in Poetry of the Guggenheim Foundation, and recipient of the Toronto Arts Award for Literature.

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