A Caribbean publisher's radical beacon.
Americas (English Edition) › Vol. 48 Nbr. 5, September 1996
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Profile on John La Rose
A profile on Caribbean publisher and political activist John La Rose is presented. The factors behind his revolutionary upbringing and attitude towards government are also examined.See the full content of this document
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A Caribbean publisher's radical beacon.
Writer-activist John La Rose has been a guiding force in bringing emerging as well as classic West Indian and African writers into the international limelight
Caribbean publisher John La Rose enjoys telling of how he didn't live up to early expectations. "When I was in school, my father wanted me to be a doctor. My mother wanted me to be a priest. But I . . .," he says with a laugh, "I didn't want to be anything." And so he became many things. This August La Rose celebrates thirty years in the risky business of publishing. As one of the few Caribbean-born publishers, he has been responsible for giving voice to new talent and new life to old, sometimes forgotten regional fiction and nonfiction classics. But the Trinidadian poet...See the full content of this document
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