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The hills of Hebron
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The jacket painting depicts a landscape view with a bright, multi-colored sky and people engaged in various activities. On the jacket front in the foreground, an older man with white hair points straight out, his face wrinkled in consternation. Behind him is a wooden church and a young Afro-Caribbean woman reclining against a tree with a man's head resting on her lap. A photograph of the author, Sylvia Wynter, is on the back flap.
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The hills of Hebron
Identifier
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PR9265.9.W96H51962b
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Tom Adams was the jacket designer. A novel about a preacher who must come to terms with himself and with his suspected adulterous wife, all within a community called the New Believers, on Jamaica. The novel's plot concerns a revivalist group called the New Believers who are at a turning point as a result of their founder's death. As a gesture of commitment, the new leader, Obadiah Brown, promises to abstain from sex with his wife Rose until the next hurricane has passed. During this period of claimed abstention, Rose becomes pregnant; several community members, among them Miss Gatha, condemn the couple for hypocrisy. We eventually learn that Miss Gatha's son Isaac, whose mother covets the eldership for her son, raped Rose when he stole the group's money before abandoning friends and family. By the end, the characters attribute clear lessons to the recent events, not least of which is the folly of religious fervor and preventive isolationism. The novel is considered a nexus of the author's critical and feminist concerns. Her investment in messaging through plot, addressing concerns as broad-ranging as postcolonial political leadership and the influence of imperialism on education, has the potential to crowd out what is a suspenseful plot written in vivid and accessible prose. However, the novel has been overwhelmingly well-received by regional critics and deserves greater attention from the larger community of English-speaking critics.
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Author
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Wynter, Sylvia
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Adams, Tom
Publisher
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J. Cape
Place of Publication
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London (England)
Date of Publication
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1962
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Illustrated works
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Color
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H.D. Carberry Collection of Caribbean Studies
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University of Illinois at Chicago. Library. Special Collections and University Archives Department (Richard J. Daley Library)
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Rare Books
Repository Location
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Richard J. Daley Library
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