The Kaywana Trilogy (Masterplots II: British and Commonwealth Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Edgar Mittelholzer
- First Published: 1952
- Type of Work: Historical romance
- Time of Work: 1616-1953
- Setting: British Guiana
- Principal Characters: Kaywana, Adriansen van Groenwegel, August Vyfius, Willem van Groenwegel, August Vyfius, Jr., Laurens van Groenwegel, Hendrickje van Groenwegel, Aert van Groenwegel, Ignatius van Groenwegel, Hubertus van Groenwegel, Dirk van Groenwegel, Patrick Baxter-Hough
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction
- Subjects: Africa or Africans, Politics, Colonies or colonization, Love or romance, Race, Sex or sexuality, Twentieth century, Nineteenth century, Slavery or slaves, Revolutions, Social issues, Eighteenth century, Seventeenth century, Guyana or Guyanese people, Ethics, Cruelty, Intermarriage, Insurgency
- Locales: British Guiana
The Novels
The Kaywana Trilogy comprises Children of Kaywana, Hubertus (later republished as Kaywana Stock, 1959), and The Old Blood. All three novels are set in British Guiana (modern Guyana), a South American territory which was inhabited by Amerindians before the first European settlers, the Dutch, arrived in the early seventeenth century. The action begins in 1616 and, over a period of almost three and a half centuries, traces the course of social, political, and economic events while the colony changed hands many times between Dutch, French,...
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