Jane Bryce Chameleon and Other Stories (Paperback)

Further Details\n\nTitle: Chameleon and Other Stories\nCondition: New\nDescription: \nWhen a young white child growing up in Tanzania discovers why her family\u2019s African gardener so dislikes the chameleon she spots in a tree, she is plunged into a puzzled awareness of the complexities of race, colour and difference.\n\nAs the \u2018I\u2019 of the stories grows into adulthood in Nigeria, she too becomes a chameleon of sorts, one thing when she is with her Nigerian friends, another with the white tribe when she can no longer resist the lure of the scarce luxuries to be had at the British embassy. When the \u2018I\u2019 makes the crossing from Nigeria to the Caribbean, she discovers that it is not only people who are chameleons. Osun, the Yoruba orisha has also made the journey, a little outwardly changed, but inwardly the same in Trinidadian and Cuban manifestations.\n\nIn the earlier stories, the \u2018I\u2019 has a childhood innocence that, in the comment of the distinguished poe.