The Hills Were Joyful Together
LC Class PR9265.9 .M3 H5 | | |
| Preceded by | Face and Other Stories | |
|---|---|---|
| Followed by | Brother Man | |
The Hills Were Joyful Together is a 1953 novel by
Plot
In
Reception
Mais said that the intention of his novel was "to give the world a true picture of the real Jamaica and the dreadful condition of the
In Imagination, Emblems, and Expressions: Essays on Latin American, Caribbean, and Continental Culture and Identity (1993), Margaret K. Bass writes that Mais notes the depiction of violence, pain and suffering in the book, but says "Mais does not intend to portray the baseness of the lower class. Mais shows us, rather, that the people in the lower class are victims, and that poverty can reduce the human to the inhuman. Violence [...] gives an otherwise powerless people a temporary feeling of control over the particular life or a particular situation."[9]
In 2022, The Hills Were Joyful Together was included on the
References
- ISBN 9781443821735– via Google Books.
- ^ "Roger Mais – The Hills Were Joyful Together (1953) | Soul Jazz Records". soundsoftheuniverse.com.
- ISBN 978-0333283578– via Google Books.
- ISBN 9780813933948– via Google Books.
- ^ Moga, Shadrack A. (20 April 1991). The vision of Roger Mais: An investigation into the hills were joyful together and brother man (MA). University of Nairobi – via erepository.uonbi.ac.ke.
- ISBN 9781902669373– via Google Books.
- ^ "The Hills Were Joyful Together | Peepal Tree Press". www.peepaltreepress.com.
- JSTOR 40653093– via JSTOR.
- ISBN 9780879725815– via Google Books.
- ^ "The God of Small Things to Shuggie Bain: the Queen's jubilee book list". the Guardian. 18 April 2022.
- ^ "BBC Arts - BBC Arts - The Big Jubilee Read: Books from 1952 to 1961". BBC.
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