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The Company We Kept: Tribes of No Continuing Place

The Company We Kept: Tribes of No Continuing Place

Viglielmo, Frances
Ridgeway, William

Paperback

Literary Fiction

ISBN10: 1449550266
ISBN13: 9781449550264
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jun 18 2010
Pages: 246
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
From the Introduction: The Company We Kept highlights the patriarchal manipulation by Zonian men of a group of young women athletes whose swimming and diving hopes to gain a place on the 1948 Olympics American team are threatened by the twists and turns of a trial wherein two criminals must be punished, accused and accuser, for unacceptable miscegenation. This fictional trial fills in the bare outline of a real legal procedure in a Zone historic trial, highly problematic, which led to shifts in the political terrain. In the work of imagination the white woman's retraction of the allegation of rape comes as a consequence of a nightmare induced by the addition of an ingredient into her lunch by the West-Indian staff of the mental hospital in which she is placed for psychosomatic laryngitis. In the dream she is tried by the rainforest creatures of Panama and brought to a high level of conscience by the nightmare lynching of her Jamaican lover.

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