Finding myself : essays on race, politics and culture /
Clem Seecharan.
- Leeds, England : Peepal Tree P., 2015.
- 338 p. : ill., photos.
Includes bibliographical references.
"Tiger in the stars" : Ian McDonald and my retrieval of self-belief -- Indians in Guyana : an overview -- India's awakening and the imagining of the "East Indian Nation" in British Guiana -- Sugar in my blood -- Girmitiyas and my discovery of India -- In Sir Vidia's shadow, out of historical darkness -- The shape of the passion : the historical context of Martin Carter's poetry of protest, 1951-64 -- Balram Singhy Rai's anticommunism and cultural idealism -- Whose freedom at midnight? Machinations towards Guyana's independence, May 1966 -- The anatomy of Cheddi Jagan's Marxism -- Culture and ethnicity in post-emancipation Guyana -- "Helping lions learn to paint" : Walter Rodney (1942-80) -- Empire and family in the shaping of a West Indian intellectual : the young C.L.R. James, a preliminary assessment -- Interview with Ivan Madray, the forgotten cricketer : "Da coolie ga mek abi hunt ledda".