The arts journal : critical perspectives on the contemporary literature, art and culture of Guyana and the Anglophone Caribbean.
- Georgetown, Guyana : Arts Forum, 2004
- Vol.
- Semi annual
Volume 10 Number 1 & 2
CONTENTS
CREATIVE WRITING
The boy who loved Nessa Gopaul p. 11 Subraj Singh
Outside people p. 14 Mariam Pirbhai
Don pass fifteen p. 21 Stephanie Bowry
Forgive us our sins p. 27 Cyril Dabydeen
Guangzhou mud p.32 Pauline Lachman
Shame p.37 Subraj Singh
Bachoo in the house p. 42 Stephanie Bowry
The sour of tamarind p.47 Professor Daizal R. Samad
Shooting the pig p. 54 Nazreen Kadir
Living with the masters p. 63 Valerie Coddett
Literature without borders: perspectives on historical and cultural particularities p. 75 Professor Victor Ramraj
Poem: Tabula Rose p. 90 Carl Hazelwood
Seepersad & Sons: Naipaulian Creative Synergies p. 91 Emeritus Professor Kenneth Ramchand
Poem: The third warm day of spring p. 102 Carl Hazelwood The shaping of the Indo-Caribbean People: Guyana and Trinidad to 1940s p. 103 Emeritus Professor Clem Seecharan
Poem: Pour and pool Carl Hazelwood
Painting on a torn canvas: reaching for ethnic harmony in Wilson Harris’s Palace p. 131 Professor Daizal Samad and Shazeena Seetayah
Book Reviews
Musical life in Guyana: History and Politics controlling creativity p.150 Dr. Paloma Mohamed
The last ship p.157 Emeritus Professor Frank Birbalsingh
Volume 9 Numbers 1&2
CONTENTS
Editorial
Poem: Children at play Ameena Gafoor
Derek Walcott: Poet of the exiles Lee Johnson
Poem: Lionfish Nancy Anne Miller
A bong coolie – Poonith: A quest for knowledge and self-discovery Professor Emeritus Kenneth Ramchand
Poem: Jump rope on Court Street Nancy Anne Miller
Bifurcated Nationalism: African and Indian identities in Colonial Guyana, the 1930s Professor Emeritus Clem Seecharan
“You are Haiti, too”: Negotiating “Haitianness” in the works of women writers in the diaspora Marianne Bessy
Poem: Cruel Work Nancy Anne Miller
Petra’s underworld: Rational speech in Rosario Fere’s The House on the Lagoon Dr. Melody Boyd Carriere
As new as old: An essay published in the catalogue of Bernadette Persaud’s exhibition at the National Art Gallery, Guyana May-June, 2014 Alim Hosein
Imaging transition Kenwyn Crichlow
Names and the self St. Hope Earl McKenzie
BOOK REVIEWS
Weaving Water Professory Mariam Pirbhai
Racing in the rain Professor Emeritus Frank Birbalsingh
The sky’s wild noise Associate Professor Nigel Westmaas
Beyond Sangre Grande Marie Annick-Montout
Childhood, autobiography and the Francophone Caribbean Malik Noel-Ferinand
Love songs make you cry Rochelle Ward
Volume 8 Number 1&2
This Heartland
CONTENTS
Editorial
El Dorado revisited Dr. Michael Gilkes
The Historical legacy of missionary enterprise among the Amerindians of Guyana Professor Sr. Mary Noel Menezes, RSM
Two poems Dr, Michael Gilkes
Guyana legends: four short stories Dr. Odeen Ishmael
Poems Indran Amirthanayagam
An extract from Palace of the Peacock Wilson Harris
Two Poems – Stephanie Correia Clay – A voyage of discovery – Stephanie Correia
Colour symbolism among Amerindians in Guyana Desrey Fox
Indian-Guyanese words and phrases: arrival, adaptation, migration, obsolescence Harry T. Hergash
Offerings towards a retrospective on language and power Charlene V. Wilkinson
Songs of iron and fire: Martin Carter’s Poetry of Imprisonment Professor Eliff Lara Astorga
Phillip Moore (Immanuel Kweku Moorji): Mystic, visionary and artist of Guyana Stanley Greaves
The Enigma of Arrival: V.S. Naipaul Professor Daizal Samad
Opening of the 50th Anniversary Exhibition at the National Museum and Art Gallery, Trinidad Kenwyn Crichlow
BOOK REVIEWS
The Short stories of Cyril Dabydeen Professor Mariam Pirbhai
Growing up in British Guiana 1945-1964 Ameena Gafoor
Near Open Water Shivanee Ramlochan
If only the Gods were awake Gokarran D. Sukhdeo
Une Autre Vie (Another Life) Dr. Louise Hardwick
Where I see the sun: Contemporary poems Dr. Fabian Ade Badejo
Contributors
Volume 7 Numbers 1&2 September 2011
An Other Caribbean
CONTENTS
Editorial
The other Selvons Kenneth Ramchand
From Shinebourne to Gunraj: tracing the emerging tradition of Indo-Guyanese women’s fiction Mariam Pirbhai
Indigenisation in Rooplall Monar’s Janjhat Frank Birbalsingh
Welcoming Mr. Anang Cyril Dabydeen
Drupatie’s vanishing hopes Lomarsh Roopnarine
Ethnic histories: the Indo-centric narrative of Trinidad’s history Bridget Brereton
Counter cultures: exploring shop keeping in the Chinese diaspora Keith Lowe
Extracts from Chinese Women Jan Lowe Shinebourne
Return to Guangdong Willi Chen
Shadows move among them II: new paintings by Stanley Greaves Rupert Roopnarine
Rembering Phibbah: ancestral reflections in the International year for people of African Descent Verene Shepherd
Reading The Wine of Atonishment Ameena Gafoor
Coffee watch Stephanie Bowry
“Of moderate company: the survival of The Creole (1856 to 1907): Guyana’s second coloured newspaper Paloma Mohamed
A suite of poems Cyril Dabydeen
Book Reviews
Contributors
Volume 6 Numbers 1&2 September 2010
Home and Away from Home
CONTENTS
Editorial
Words and images from Mexico: Four poems, four works Eliff Lara Astorga
Sonnet to a love lost at Fort Groyne Brenda Chester DoHarris
An interview with Wilson Harris Michael Gilkes
The town and I Stephanie Bowry
Tale of another crossing Brigid Wells: The diary Roxana Kawall
To the running of my river Grace Nichols
The distinctive Indo-Caribbean art and voice of Harry Sonny Ladoo Professor Victor J. Ramraj
Welcome to the plantation: three novels by Davud Dabydeen Keith Jardim
VISUAL ARTS
The artist Donald Locke: Notes on a career and its development Carl E. Hazelwood
CREATIVE WRITING
Poems by Stanley Greaves Memories New Horizon Routines Unexpected
Poems by Grace Nichols Weeping Woman Guyana Dreaming Three for Kalera
Poems by Mahadai Das Untitled VI Untitiled VIII The Beast
Poems by Stephanie Bowry Perilous Wake The Spirit and the Sunset From the lighthouse top
Poems by Cicely Rodway Women who laugh at the wind What is lovely never dies Traditions Death of a mother Worlds away from home Foremothers
AN extract from “Moving House”…a Guyana childhood Michael Gilkes
An extract from Tell us we’re home Marina Budhos
Book reviews
Contributors
Volume 5 Number 1&2 March 2009
Submerged Identities
CONTENTS
Editorial
LITERATURE
Music and symbolism in The life and Death of Sylvia Juanita Cox
The Guyana landscape and the language of the imagination in the fiction of Wilson Harris Mark Mcwatt
Identity formation in Ramabai Espinet’s The Swinging Bridge Frank Birbalsingh
Re-encountering Guyana: An interview with Mark Mcwatt Lucy Evans
Sasenarine Persaud: A boundary-crossing ethnocentrist VictorJ. Ramraj and Jiteshp Parik
LINGUISTICS
Guyana’s Dutch-Lexicon creoles: The Demerara (dis)connection Ian Robertson
Figures trapped at the forest’s edge Kenwyn Crichlow
When the doomed are mostly eloquent in their sinking Edward Baugh
I wish you a leaf falling Edward Baugh
Not in the loo Velma Pollard
Reflections in broken lines: the seashore of a child’s memory Ameena Gafoor
BOOK REVIEWS
John Agard: Amamcy Troubadour Philip Nanton
A reading of Ameena Gafoor’s Novel extract Michael Gilkes
Moses Nagamootoo’s Hendree Cyre: Madrassi experience in a new world Frank Birbalsingh
Howard A. Fergus’s Love, Labour, Liberation in Lasana Sekou Fabian Adekunle Badejo
Selwyn Cudjoe’s Caribbean Visionary: ARF Webber and the making of the Guyanese Nation Nigel Westmaas
Contributors
Volume 4 Numbers 1&2 march 2008
Memory and Experience: 170 years on
CONTENTS
Editorial
The world of Seepersad Naipaul Brinsley Samaroo
Indian episodes for Arrival Day Kenneth Ramchand
An interview with Jan Lowe Shinebourne Anne Marie Lee-Loy
Amenisa and myth: framing the past Clem Seecharan
V.S Naipaul as critical thinker Bhoendradatt Tewarie
Tribute to my father Royston Heath
Retrieving the past: Rip Persaud Berbadette Persaud
Shastri Maharaj: history, myth and beyond Bernadette Persaud
An intuition of reality and identity: A picture gallery of the traditional art of Indian Guyanese Bernadette Persaud
An interview with Ayube Hamid Khan Ammena Gafoor and Pat Dial
The first Muslims in Guiana B.H. Khanam and R.S. Chickrie
A critique: Guiana, 1838 Basdeo Mangru
IMAGINATIVE PROSE WRITING
From a forthcoming novel Ameena Gafoor
An Immigrant’s lamentation Jan Lowe Shinebourne
Song of the Sugar Canes: An extract Sheik Sadeek
BOOK REVIEWS
Mariam Pirbhai on Cyril Dabydeen’s Drums of My Flesh
Anne Marie-Lee-Loy on Shinebourne’s Godmother and Other stories
Frank Birbalsingh on C.F. Andrew’s Impressions of British Guiana
Gretchen Dobrott Bernard on Transport9s0 in the British Empire and the Commonwealth, eds., Lourdes and Misrahi-Barak
Sukdev Sandhu on David Dabydeen’s Molly and the Muslims Stick
Contributors
Volume # 3 Numbers 1&2 March 2007
The Dominant Narrative Deplumes: Revisiting Abolition of the British Slave Trade
CONTENTS
Editorial Note Rita Pemberton
West Indian Slave Narratives: ‘Writing’ abolition and resistance Nicole N. Aljoe
‘We all thought the King was on our side’: Voices of the enslaved in the post-slave trade abolition era Verene A. Shepherd
Freedom regained: The testimony of a slave narrative Maureen Warner-Lewis
Visual expressions of slavery and emancipation, 1700-1834 Edith (Nancy) Jacobs
Filmic representation of the abolitionist movement Jean Antonie-Dunne and Bruce Paddington
Blackened figures: Art and politics on the paintings of Carlise Harris Kenwyn Crichlow
On the planet from London to Paris, I think of my dead grandfather’s face Christian Campbell
Things Fall Apart: Abolition, the Slave Trade and enslavement Heather Cateau
The Trinidad question and Britain’s first Slave-Trade Abolition Legislation Claudius Fergus
A historiographical comment on the Abolition Act and the ‘Reform Movement’ of 1806 in the British Caribbean John F. Campbell
The impact of restriction and abolition of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade on Demerara-Essequibo, 1805 – 1831 Winston McGowan
British Guiana and the Abolition of the Atlantic Slave Trade Aubrey A. Thompson
‘Strange’ Bedfellows: Anti-Slave-Trading alliances in the British West Indies, 1847-1887 Melisse Thomas-Bailey Ellis
Post-abolition Trinidad-Venezuela relations: The experience of the Manumisos and Aprendizajes Michael F. Toussaint
Despite indifference: An analysis of the ideological Tug-of-war surrounding the commemoration of the Jubilee of Emancipation in Barbados Marcia Burrowes
Notes on Contributors
Volume 2 Number 2 March 2006
CONTENTS
Editorial Note Gemma Robinson
From The Ghost of Memory Wilson Harris
From One Scattered Skeleton Vahni Capildeo
From Naming the Dead Fred D’Aguiar
“The Painterboy of Demerara” David Dabydeen
Caribbean consequences: A 50-year publishing chronology Anne Walmsley
Continental Voices: Guyanese writers on the radio Gemma Robinson
A journey through the imperial gaze: Birmingham’s photographic collections and its Caribbean Nexus Sandra Courtman
What “ Caribbean” can mean Nicholas Laughlin
Projecting the Caribbean: Case study of the Barbados Festival of African and Caribbean Film Jane Bryce
The Shaman’s journey along the milky way George Simon
Aubrey William’s Art of Transnationalism: Entwining history at the end of Empire Leon Wainwright
Notes on Contributors
Volume 2 number 1 September 2005
CONTENTS
Editorial Note Victor J. Ramraj
(In)appropriate others: Black youth female identities in Andrea Levy’s Novels Monica Bungaro University of Birmingham
From “Miss Lou” to [Star Trek’s] Zulu: The multiple communities of Nalo Hopkinson Nancy Ellen Batty Red Deer College
“Nothing everywhere”; Naming self and society in poetry of Lorna Goodison and Derek Walcott Corey Coates University of Calgary
History turned “Upside Dung”: The English as underdog in Zadie Smith’s White Teeth Camille Isaacs University of Calgary/Toronto
Tessa McWatt’s Out of my Skin: “Belonging is what you give yourself” Andrea Medovarski York University
“ Standing in the Middle of the World Cracking”; Class, cultural memory, and collectivity in Dionne Brand’s ar the Full and the Change of the Moon Pamela Mc Callum & Chris Olbey University of Calgary & University of California
The shallow grave of the text: African narratives in Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea and Pauline Melville’s “Erzulie” Melaine Otto College, Dublin
“A garden of her own”: Caribbean Canadian spaces and identities in Shani Mootoo’s Fiction Jordan Stouck, University of Lethbridge
POEMS
“The Habits of Love” “The Things She Knows” Kwame Dawes, University of South Carolina
REVIEW ARTICLES Clem Seecharan Sweetening Bitter Sugar David Granger, Guyana
Conference Report “Caribbean migrations: Negotiating borders” Hyacinth Simpson, Ryerson University
BOOK REVIEWS
David Dabydeen Our Lady of Demerara Mark Troy, Karlstad University, Sweden
Fred D’Aguiar Bethany Bettany Harald Leusmann Ball State University
Ramabai Espinet The Swinging Bridge Frank Birbalsingh York University