The Chosen Place, the Timeless People

by Paule Marshall

American sociologists have come to Bourne Island in the Caribbean. In the rural area called Bournehills, they study the people who live there. Chief among them is Merle Kinbona, who each year leads the community in the re-enactment of a slave revolt to remind them of their resistance to encroaching modernism.

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The chosen place is Bourneville, a remote, devastated part of a Caribbean island; the timeless people are its inhabitants--black, poor, inextricably linked to their past enslavement. When the advance team for an ambitious American research project arrives, the tense, ambivalent relationships that evolve -- between natives and foreigners, blacks and whites, haves and have-nots -- keenly dramatize the vicissitudes of power.

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"A novel that harbors an intelligent revolutionary politics and a compassionate, penetrating humanism is an event in any time. If the time is now, if the revolution is black, if the compassion transcends race, it is a freak or a miracle, depending on whether or not you trust it. I trust 'The Chosen Place, the Timeless People'. I think it is an important and moving book. And Paule Marshall seems to me as wise as she is bold, for in compromising neither her politics nor her understanding of people she makes better sense of both...."

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