Wages Paid
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Word Count
31,750 words, Guess
Page Count
127 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL34602758M
- ISBN-139781845232153
- OCLC Control Number1243750812
Classifications
- LCCPR9265.9.C34W3 2016
Description
"First published in 1976, Wages Paid is a short but powerful novel set on a sugar plantation in Jamaica during the years of slavery. Mr Johnson, the owner, commands the bodies of any of the women he wants, to do whatever he wants; he also owns enslaved men as studs, and women as breeders. But it is precisely this connection through sex that provides one of the plot motives of the novel, when Mr Johnson suspects he may have caught a dose of the clap from Johnson. Mary, the cook, who has created some space for herself through her skills, has reason to want to humble Johnson for the way he has treated her, and then what role will Wiseman, the obeah man, whose assistance is sought by all, play in the day's unfolding events? Not least for what it has to say about gender in the context of slavery and the construction of masculinity, Wages Paid was and is a groundbreaking novel."--Page 4 of cover.
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