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The Columbia History of the American NovelThey made an explicit connection between aesthetics and national politics. They insisted on specificity and concreteness; they demanded authenticity in West Indian settings, speech, characters, and situations, and inspired fiction rooted in an indigenous reality. Writing out of these values, Mendes and James pioneered the novel of the barrack-yard, described by James in his story "Triumph" as a type of slum dwelling with "a narrow gateway, leading into a fairly big yard, on either side of which run long low buildings, consisting of anything from four to eighteen rooms, each about twelve feet square." The novel of the yard would be taken to new heights by the Jamaican novelists Roger Mais and Orlando Patterson, and the Trinidadian Earl Lovelace. The social realism of James's Minty Alley (1936) and Mendes's Pitch Lake (1934) and Black Fauns (1935) deepened the representation of native space as fundamentally poor and black though they were themselves middle class by birth and education. They depicted the pain and squalor of the everyday life of the urban working poor — domestic servants, carters, porters, prostitutes, and washerwomen — and were obsessed with its vitality and intensity when compared with the predictability and safety of their own lives ...» |
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