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  Crick Crack Monkey (Caribbean Writers Series) (Paperback) By (author) Merle Hodge

  

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  Short Description for Crick Crack MonkeyA revealing novel of childhood about Tee who is being made socially acceptable by her Aunt Beatrice so that she can cope with the caste system of Trinidad.
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  • Publisher: Heinemann International Literature & Textbooks
  • Published: 22 March 2000
  • Format: Paperback 139 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction | English Language: Reading Schemes | English Literature
  • ISBN 13: 9780435989514 ISBN 10: 0435989510
  • Sales rank: 84,763

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• The world of "Crick Crack, Monkey" is a dual one. Tee, the central character, is suspended between the warmth, spontaneity, and exuberance of Tantie's household, into which she and her brother are received when their father immigrates to England, and the formality and pretension of her Aunt Beatrice's world, which Tee is obliged to enter when she wins a scholarship. Tee's initiation into the middle class is an uneasy one: she is confused and disturbed by the discrimination of color and class that she learns at Aunt Beatrice's hands and by the attitudes and values that divide her two aunts. Tee's shifting perceptions find no resolution, only acknowledgment that coherence will require a mature revaluation of her experience.