The ten days executive
Subtitle: and other stories
By: Rhoda Bharath
Publisher: Peepal Tree Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Leeds, England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 177
ISBN-13: 9781845232931
Subjects: Short stories, Trinidadian and Tobagonian (English); Short stories
Other titles: 10 day's executive
Description: Rhoda Bharath's stories bring a very contemporary Trinidad of the internet and social media into an urgent but complex focus. Told through a distinctive range of individual voices, they visit the domestic and public spaces of a country moving too fast between the knowing innocence of its past and the experience of a globalized present where the the words "shipping and transportation" have quite a different meaning in the thesaurus of the street corner. Caught in the antagonisms of race, class, and gender; the violence that comes with the trade in cocaine; and an Anancy politics where government power is the means to personal wealth made secure by favors to one's ethnic supporters, Bharath's characters are often engaged in a struggle to balance a desire for meaning and self-worth with the temptations of survival by any means.
Table of contents: title: The ten days executive; title: Sempo's wedding; title: Before I dead; title: Redemption; title: The fairest of them all; title: Breast pocket; title: Sweet hand; title: Circles and lines; title: Gaps; title: The right word; title: Action reaction; title: Split level; title: Calendar of events.