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''Minty Alley'' is a groundbreaking novel written by Trinidadian writer C. L. R. James in the late 1920s, and published by Secker & Warburg in 1936, as West Indian literature was starting to flourish. It was the first novel by a black West Indian to be published in England. According to Christian Høgsbjerg, James later noted: "‘the basic constituent of my political activity and outlook’ was already set out in ‘the “human” aspect’ of ''Minty Alley'', the unpublished novel he wrote in 1928 about the working people of one ‘barrack-yard’ he stayed in that summer."〔("C. L. R. James: the revolutionary as artist" ), ''International Socialism'', Issue 112, 12 October 2006. Quoting A. Grimshaw, ''The C. L. R. James Archive: A Readers’ Guide'' (New York, 1991), p. 94.〕 James arrived in the United Kingdom in 1932, intent on a career as a writer and bearing the manuscript of ''Minty Alley'',〔(C. L. R. James Legacy Project. )〕 and found employment writing about cricket for the ''Manchester Guardian''. He soon became swept up in politics, writing books about the Bolshevik and Haitian revolutions, leaving his literary ambitions behind. He died in London in 1989. A dramatisation〔"Radio", in David Dabydeen, John Gilmore, Cecily Jones (eds), ''The Oxford Companion to Black British History'', Oxford University Press, 2007, p. 392.〕 of ''Minty Alley'', by Margaret Busby and produced by Pam Fraser Solomon (with a cast that included Geff Francis, Vivienne Rochester and Burt Caesar), was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1998,〔("Minty Alley" (Afternoon Play) ), BBC Radio 4.〕〔Nigel Deacon, ("BBC Radio Plays, radio 4, 1998" ). Diversity Website.〕 winning a Commission for Racial Equality (CRE) "Race in the Media Award" in 1999.〔(Black British Perspectives: Performance and Literature & Publishing )〕 ==Editions== * 1936 - London: Secker & Warburg * 1971 - London: New Beacon Books (paperback) ISBN 0-901241-08-3 * 1997 - University Press of Mississippi (paperback) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Minty Alley」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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