Roger Mais
1.
.Roger Mais was born on August 11th 1990 in Kingston Jamaica into a brown middle class respectable middleclass family and came to mautrity in the 1930's. He entered Calabar High School but mad little of the certificate he obtained from the age of 17 years to his 30's he earned his living in a variety of jobs, officework, selling insurance, oveseer on a banana plantation as a reporter-photographer and a variety other jornalistic occupation.
Roger Mais launched his career as a journalist and contributor for the weekly newspaper. He wrote several plays, reviews and short stories for newspapers. He used this approach to reach his local audience and to primarily push for a nation identity and colonialism.
In early 1930 he began writing. He left Jamaica for the UK in 1952 but whilst in France in 1954 where he discovered that he had cancer. He returned to Jamaica attempting to finish a fourth novel but died before its completion in 1955.
2.
In Roger Mais’ Brother Man, Rastas were viewed in this way: The leading newspapers played up the angle that a community of bearded men in their midst, formed together into a secret cult, was a menace to public safety. People began writing letters to the press. All bearded men should be placed behind barbed wire. They should be publicly washed and shaved! They should be banished to Africa. They should be sterilized. They should be publicly flogged. They became identified with a certain political party. They should be denied the vote. They were, in fact, potential rapists and murderers all. In contemporary Jamaica, on the other hand, Rastas have come to represent an odd kind of respectability. Rasta values, bolstered by ital cuisine and a certain fastidious refusal of the latest trends and crazes, are perceived to be wholesome, old-fashioned, and desirable in the world of bling we live in today.
3.
Brother Man is Roger Mais's best novel because it reflects all of the author's varied talents. Here, good and evil in the Jamaican slums are brought to life. The book details the origins of the Rastafarian cult and the hero's Christ-like walk against a chorus of ordinary people.
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Literary Terms
Prose Friction
Novels: A fictional pros work with a relatively long and often complex plot, unusally divided into long chapters.
Novellas: a fictional prose wrok that is longer than a short story but shorter than a novel.
Short Storie: A variet of small prose friction.
Elements of Prose Friction
NarrativeTechinque: the styple of telling the story. Concentrate on teh order of events and on their details in evlauating a writer's technique.
Point of View: the perspective on events of the narrator or a harcter in a story.
Characterization: the way in which the writer potray the character in a book, play or movie.
Seting: the period in time and place in which the events of the story are said to occur.
Theme: the central idea of a story or runs through a text.
Plot: the story or sequence of event in something such as a novel, play movie, how it unfolds.
Style: the lanuage of a poem or story primarily literal or figurative. Maner of expression.
Literary Devices: An identifiable ruke of thumb, convention or struture that is emplye d in literature abd story telling.
Imagery: descrpitive lanuage that evokes sequence of speech sounds.
Syllabes:A unit of oganization for a sequence of speech sounds.
Irony: humour based on using words to suggest the opposition of their literal meaning.
Satire: the experience of the vicesor follies of an indiviual, usuall with a view to correcting it.
Allusion: Abrief refrence to person to a person, place things, events or idea in history of literature.\
Stuructual Devices
Streams of consciousness: a narratve made that seeks to potray an indiviuaks point of view by giving the written equivalent of the character's thought processors.
Interior Monologue: A narrative technique that exhibits the thoughts through passing through the minds of the protoganists.
Flashback: An interjected scence that takes the narrative back in time from the recent or current point the story has reached.
Forshawdow: Hints of clues that suggest the events of what is in the action of play or story.
Time Frame: A period durng which something takes place or is projected to occur.
Motif: any recurring element that has symbolic significance in a story.
Juxtapositon: two objects or text that oppose one another.
Types of Friction
Humorous Fiction
Science Fiction
Histrical Fiction
Relistic Fiction
Animal Fiction
Traditional Fiction
Fantasy Fiction
mystery Fiction
Literary Context
Social: the identical or similar social levls and social roles as a whle tht influences the indivual of group.
Polictical: this reflect the enviroment in which is produced indicating it's pupose or agenda.
Religous: this reflects the time in which something takes palce or was craeted and how that influnces, how you interpret it.
Ethnic: reflects on the chracteristics of people or group sharing common and distintive religion and belief.
Cultural the way in which a person grow up It 's also the location where the person lives.
Novels: A fictional pros work with a relatively long and often complex plot, unusally divided into long chapters.
Novellas: a fictional prose wrok that is longer than a short story but shorter than a novel.
Short Storie: A variet of small prose friction.
Elements of Prose Friction
NarrativeTechinque: the styple of telling the story. Concentrate on teh order of events and on their details in evlauating a writer's technique.
Point of View: the perspective on events of the narrator or a harcter in a story.
Characterization: the way in which the writer potray the character in a book, play or movie.
Seting: the period in time and place in which the events of the story are said to occur.
Theme: the central idea of a story or runs through a text.
Plot: the story or sequence of event in something such as a novel, play movie, how it unfolds.
Style: the lanuage of a poem or story primarily literal or figurative. Maner of expression.
Literary Devices: An identifiable ruke of thumb, convention or struture that is emplye d in literature abd story telling.
Imagery: descrpitive lanuage that evokes sequence of speech sounds.
Syllabes:A unit of oganization for a sequence of speech sounds.
Irony: humour based on using words to suggest the opposition of their literal meaning.
Satire: the experience of the vicesor follies of an indiviual, usuall with a view to correcting it.
Allusion: Abrief refrence to person to a person, place things, events or idea in history of literature.\
Stuructual Devices
Streams of consciousness: a narratve made that seeks to potray an indiviuaks point of view by giving the written equivalent of the character's thought processors.
Interior Monologue: A narrative technique that exhibits the thoughts through passing through the minds of the protoganists.
Flashback: An interjected scence that takes the narrative back in time from the recent or current point the story has reached.
Forshawdow: Hints of clues that suggest the events of what is in the action of play or story.
Time Frame: A period durng which something takes place or is projected to occur.
Motif: any recurring element that has symbolic significance in a story.
Juxtapositon: two objects or text that oppose one another.
Types of Friction
Humorous Fiction
Science Fiction
Histrical Fiction
Relistic Fiction
Animal Fiction
Traditional Fiction
Fantasy Fiction
mystery Fiction
Literary Context
Social: the identical or similar social levls and social roles as a whle tht influences the indivual of group.
Polictical: this reflect the enviroment in which is produced indicating it's pupose or agenda.
Religous: this reflects the time in which something takes palce or was craeted and how that influnces, how you interpret it.
Ethnic: reflects on the chracteristics of people or group sharing common and distintive religion and belief.
Cultural the way in which a person grow up It 's also the location where the person lives.
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