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    It Falls Into Place

    By Phyllis Shand Allfrey

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    There is renewed interest in Phyllis Shand Allfrey, author (the Orchid House) and politician from Dominica. Allfrey died in 1986 - her poetry neglected and little known. Her work is now being acclaimed and her place in Caribbean literary cannon assured.

    Allfrey's biographer, Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert, writes in her illuminating introduction that with the renewed academic interest in Allfrey's work and the publication of this collection, Allfrey's time has come. The volume includes all the poems published in her lifetime, some unpublished poems and a sample of her satirical poems written when she was editor and publisher of The Star newspaper in Dominica.

    This is the first time her poetry has been put together in one volume, spanning five decades, from the 1930s, and reflects the two strands of Allfrey's life - the tropical and the temperate.

    Phyllis Shand Allfrey was born in Dominica in the eastern Caribbean in 1908. She was a friend of Jean Rhys. Her novel, The Orchid House, was published in 1953 and her short story collection, It Falls into Place, in 2004. She lived in New York and London before returning to Dominica in the early 1950s. She was the co-founder of the Dominica Labour Party and served as a minister in the short-lived West Indies Federation (1958-62). She died in Dominica in 1986.

    The introduction is by Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert, Professor of Caribbean Literature at Vassar College New York. Her biography of Allfrey, A Caribbean Life, was published in 1996.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPapillote Press
    Release dateDec 18, 2018
    ISBN9780957118607
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    • 4/5
      Allfrey, a white Dominican born into a family of planters/colonial officials in 1908, sounds like she led a fascinating life, growing up in Dominica and then, as a young woman, living in the US and UK for a number of years before returning to Dominica in the 1950s to co-found the Dominica Labour Party, and serving for four years as a government minister.This collection contains 14 stories published together here for the first time. Most of them are short, vivid episodes, many of which appear to have autobiographical elements, including a couple of childhood episodes which hint at the admiration felt by a quiet girl for the confident, attractive women who break rules. There's also a running theme about exile - sometimes, that is missing the island from a cold, bombed-out Europe, but in other stories you realise the characters are remembering a world which doesn't really exist any more - or which they can't get to, such as one story in which a Dominican woman in New York, who is able to pass as white, makes a one-time-only journey to a West Indian nightclub in Harlem.
    • 3/5
      It Falls Into Place by Phyllis Shand Allfrey is a collection of short stories, many of them set on the island of Dominica, the author’s birthplace. This collection consists of 14 stories, all of which are quite short and colorful. Published in 2004, years after her death, some of the stories have a autobiographical feel to them as they are from a young person’s point of view and have a definite “colonial” feel to them as she expresses her feelings about her identity.I am not a huge fan of short stories and this book really didn’t change my mind. I prefer to have my characters more developed and a story to slowly unfold rather than a few pages about various perspectives that clash in an attempt to bring about transformations. These particular stories cover a wide range of emotions and subjects which, although interesting, didn’t feel like a cohesive collection. It is obvious that this author had a great talent but her life was difficult and today her work is not as well known as it probably should be.