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Neville Augustus Dawes was born in Warri, Nigeria, to Jamaican parents Augustus Dawes (a Baptist missionary and teacher) and his wife Laura.
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The Last Enchantment (Caribbean Modern Classics)
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Newly available after 40 years, this partly autobiographical love affair with the Jamaican language and landscape gives a penetrating look at the racial politics of the 1950s and 1960s and the search for self in a world divided by class. Ramsay Tull is witness to the black racial discontents and the desire for national independence that are threatening the old colonial order; but when a chance comes to study at Oxford University, he becomes immersed in European literary culture and Marxism. On his return to Jamaica, Ramsay becomes actively involved in radical nationalist politics and begins his second journey, away from his middle-class origins and back to a true appreciation of the Jamaican people.
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Neville Dawes
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He was the father of poet and editor Kwame Dawes. And was raised in rural Jamaica, where the family returned where he was three years old. After graduating he went to teach at Calabar High School in Kingston, Jamaica.
Returning to Africa in 1956, he took up a teaching post at Kumasi Institute of Technology in Ghana.
He was subsequently a lecturer in English at the University of Ghana (1960-1970). In 1971 he returned to Jamaica, where he became the executive director of the Institute of Jamaica in Kingston.
He published two novels and a poetry collection, as well as short stories and essays, some of which were broadcast by the British Broadcasting Corporation on the programme Caribbean Voices. His poetry was also published in Caribbean literary journals, including Bim, and he was one of the editors of Okyeame, journal of the Ghana Society of Writers.
A collection on his work entitled Fugue and Other Writings was published by Peepal Tree Press in 2012, including poems, short stories, autobiographical writing and critical writing.
Edward Brathwaite, Review of The Last Enchantment, in Bim, volunteer 9, northern 33 (July–December 1961), pp. 74–5. Edward Brathwaite, "Roots", in Bim, volunteer
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37 (July/December 1963), pp. 10–21. George Lamming, "The Last Enchantment" (review), in Race, volunteer 2, northern 2 (May 1961), p.
92.
Basil McFarlane, "Jamaican Novel: A Review of The Last Enchantment", in Jamaica Journal, volunteer
9, nos 2 & 3 (1975), pp. 51–2. Gerald Moore, The Chosen Tongue: English Writing in the Tropical World (1969), Longman.
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The Last Enchantment (Caribbean Modern Classics)
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The Last Enchantment (Caribbean Modern Classics)
