Salkey

Salkey
Salkey
 
['sɔːlki], Andrew, jamaikanischer Schriftsteller, * Colón (Panama) 30. 1. 1928, ✝ Hampshire (Massachusetts) 28. 4. 1995. Mit Ausnahme seines ersten Romans »A quality of violence« (1959), der in einer jamaikanischen Dorfgemeinschaft spielt, handeln Salkeys Romane (»The late emancipation of Jerry Stover«, 1968) und Erzählungen meist vom Dilemma der Protagonisten, die in der von Entwurzelung und Gewalt geprägten städtischen Gesellschaft vergebens nach einem positiven Selbstbild suchen. In seinen erfolgreichen Kinderbüchern betont er die Bedeutung eines stabilen Familienlebens und zeigt, dass es auch angesichts von Naturkatastrophen und politischer Unterdrückung möglich ist, sein Leben zu meistern (»Hurricane«, 1964, deutsch »achtung, sturmwarnung, hurricane, 23.00 uhr«; »Joey Tyson«, 1974; »Danny Jones«, 1980).
 
Weitere Werke: Romane: Escape to an autumn pavement (1960); The adventures of Catullus Kelly (1969); Come home, Malcolm Heartland (1976).
 
Kurzgeschichten: Anancy's score (1973).

Universal-Lexikon. 2012.

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