![]() Much like Haiti, the slave revolutions of the past, really history in general, is never forgotten. Both stories, to their credit, contain much of social import and reflect upon the rural-urban divides within both Guyana and Haiti (not to mention class and color) with some suggested morals for the reader. He was an occult-dabbling, Dutch plantation owner from colonial times, and his flute still produces a melody that only a few chosen ones can hear even two hundred years after his death. ![]() Mittelholzer did a better job with the genre than the Haitian brothers because his story is solidly within the confines of horror and does not take itself too seriously while The Beast of the Haitian Hills was all over the place. 'My Bones and My Flute' is the story of the Nevinson Family and Milton Woodsley, who are determined to solve the mistery of Jan Pieter Voorman. ![]() As for the horror genre within Caribbean literature, Mittelholzer is the main one who comes to mind for me, although Mayra Montero and a certain novel by the Marcelin brothers from Haiti also employ similar motifs and culturally or historically specific reference points for their mysteries. The narrator, Milton, bears an uncanny resemblance to Mittelholzer himself, and despite the dark themes and frightening suspense, there are moments when one cannot help but giggle because of the self-deprecating or absurd and self-referential references either made by Milton himself or some of the other characters. ![]() Mittelholzer's My Bone and My Flute is a well-written horror story that successfully transfers the reader back to Guyana in the 1930s. ![]()
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