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With note 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

Cyril Dabydeen Imaginary Origins: Selected Poems 1979 – 2002
Mariam Pirbhai Wilfrid Laurier University

Mark Mc Watt Suspended Sentences
Jan Lowe Shinebourne, United Kingdom

Notes on Contributors


Volume 1 Number 2 March 2005

CONTENTS

Editorial

Feature Address
Lloyd Searwar

The ranking game in Jamaica during slavery
Verene Shepherd

Demographic change in nineteenth-century Guyana
Winston McGowan

Grenada on the eve of Indian Immigration, 1838-1857
Ron Sookram

Interview with Peter Kempadoo
Frank Birbalsingh

Citation for David Dabydeen : 2004 Raja Rao Award Winner
Victor Ramraj

Beyond the boundary: the carnivalesque in Merle Hodge’s Crick Crack Monkey
Giseelle Rampaul

Review of the 2004 edition of the West Indian Novel and its Background
Raymond Ramcharitar

This history has to respond to these rhythms: notes on music and Guyanese History
Vibert C. Cambridge

Hosay as theather: Transcendin Time, Form, Space, Race and Religion
Kumar Mahabir

Amerindian Music in Guyana
Sr. Mary Noel Menezes

The Masquerade band of Guyana
William R. Pilgrim

Photographic Identity
Robert Fernandes

Contributors

Volume 1 Number 1 May 2004

CONTENTS

Literature

Literature and the person of Indian origin
Kenneth Ramchand

In Sir Vidia’s Shadow , Out of Historical Darkness
Clem Seecharan

The Body Politic: Oonya Kempadoo’s Buxton Spice
Alim Hosein

The depiction of Indian female experience in Jan Shinebourn’e The last English Planation
Ameena Gafoor

History

Indian Indentured women in the Caribbean: Ethnicity, Class & Gender
Verene A. Shepherd

Mutiny aboard the Guyana-bound Clasmerden
Brinsley Samaroo

Governor Henry Turner Irving and his Role on Immigration, 1882-1887: Consolidation and Confrontation
Tota Mangra

Art

“Aloof from the Mainstream”: Curatorial Statement
Bernadette Persaud

“Under the Seventh Sun”: An overview
Ameena Gafoor

Appendix

Contributors










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