This book shines a much-needed light on this world’s current dark night of the soul, and its Inner Light guides us into new life-affirming behaviours and mindsets. The author addresses the human condition from the root up, and encourages new ways of being, seeing, living, and loving that will lead to true and lasting change.

The overarching message of Inner Life Writes is that we all can make a difference and that “unprecedented” doesn’t have to mean bad, only that it is time for a paradigm shift to a more Humane and Just world. 

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Synopsis:
Born under the shadow of French colonial rule in Upper Volta, West Africa, the author was taken from his tribe and virtually imprisoned by a Jesuit priest in a seminary. He lived there for 15 years, abused and intimidated into forgetting his tribal past and accepting the white man’s god and religion. At 19, he ran away and walked hundreds of miles back to his own people, the Dagara, where he received a mixed welcome. He could not remember enough of his native language to speak to his own parents, and many feared he had been contaminated by the white world. His only hope for reconnecting with his people was to risk death by undergoing the traditional Dagara tribal initiation ritual. This month-long ordeal in the wilderness with the magical forces of the supernatural forms the core of the story.

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This text takes a multidisciplinary approach to the study of women and gender issues in the Caribbean. Olive Senior, using her imaginative skills as a poet, has written a readable books based on a substantial academic examination of women’s lives and work in fourteen countries of the Caribbean. In addition she uses examples from literature and popular culture, and the voices of the women themselves.

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Lively traces ideas of racial difference to their earliest expressions in European culture, at the time of the Europeans’ first encounters with African and American peoples, and follows these ideas to their current incarnations in contemporary America and the Caribbean. He explores the various and sometimes reversible ways in which racial identity has functioned as a mask: the pure white soul inside the black person; the primitive, dark soul ready to break through the civilized white veneer; the “invisible” black whose identity consists of projected white fears. Examining a wide range of works over the last three centuries — including stave autobiographies, sentimental romances, propagandist verse, natural history, jazz (“a music of disguises”) and such 20th-century writers as Conrad, Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, John Updike, Eugene O’Neill, and others — Lively explores the fluidity of racial, identity. He argues that the modernist concern with the uncertainties of identity and indeed that modernism’s relativistic, ironic, pluralistic, and perpetually questioning characteristic are derived largely from black experience of a shifting sense of self.

Lucidly written and covering an enormous historical, expanse, Masks uncovers the changing ways we have tried to understand the elusive and often illusory nature of racial identity.

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