Ferdinand Dennis

rdf:langString Ferdinand Dennis

rdf:langString Ferdinand Dennis

rdf:langString Ferdinand Dennis

rdf:langString Duppy Conqueror

rdf:langString Behind the Frontlines: Journey into Afro-Britain ;

rdf:langString The Last Blues Dance ;

rdf:langString The Sleepless Summer ;

rdf:langString Writer, journalist and broadcaster

rdf:langString Ferdinand Dennis (born 18 March 1956) is a writer, broadcaster, journalist and lecturer, who is Jamaican by birth but at the age of eight moved to England, where his parents had migrated in the late 1950s. Dr James Procter notes: "Perhaps as a result of his Caribbean background (a region probably marked more than any other by movements and migration), Dennis is a writer ultimately more concerned with routes than roots. This is foregrounded in much of his fictional work, notably his most recent and ambitious novel to date, Duppy Conqueror (1998), a novel which moves from 1930s Jamaica to postwar London and Liverpool, to Africa. Similarly, Dennis' non-fiction centres on journeying rather than arrival, from Behind the Frontlines: Journey into Afro-Britain (1988) to Voices of the Crossing: The Impact of Britain on Writers from Asia, the Caribbean and Africa (2000)."