Narrative
North Amerikkkan Blues
Evan X Hyde · 1971
Synopsis
Evan X Hyde tells of his student years at Dartmouth College, in New Hampshire, where a scholarship had taken him in the sixties: a young man from Belize City discovers the United States in the time of Black Power. The Library of Congress classes the book among travel narratives about the United States; the historian Anne Macpherson notes in it his rejection of what he called the white man's dregs.
Context
The book appeared in 1971 in Belize City, self-published, in ninety pages, two years after the founding of his association and of Amandala, and in the very year its author first stood in municipal elections. It follows a first book published in 1969 and precedes Feelings, in 1975. A historian, Anne S. Macpherson, uses it in 2007 as a source on the intellectual formation of the leader of the local Black Power movement.
Who it is for
A short narrative in English, for those interested in Black Power and the origins of Belizean nationalism.
Prizes and reception
Central American travel guides were still citing it at the end of the nineties for its biting political critique.
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