![]() ![]() Her latest novel, Edith Jackson, is the final work of a trilogy. She is a graduate student of that experience and her works reflect it. The West Indian becomes a minority within a minority where the logical process of assimilation into the mainstream of American society often serves to isolate him from his original culture. The meeting of the West Indian culture and the American culture is often dichotomous. Rosa Guy was born in Diego Martin, Trinidad, and raised in Harlem. ![]() My time is now my place, so far is Harlem, USA” -Rosa Guy Particularity gains meaning only in time and place. Human characteristics such as goodness, selfishness, kindness, wickedness, bravery, or cowardice are all clichés that become unique only where the universal becomes particular. ![]() But it is likewise true that no life is ordinary, no life is simple, especially in fiction. Ordinary people who do ordinary things, wants the ordinary: love, warmth, understanding, happiness. Edith Jackson, by Rosa Guy, Viking Press, 187pp., $8.95 (Hard cover) ![]()
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