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Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} the Intended by David Dabydeen
Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} The Intended by David Dabydeen Professor David Dabydeen (Emeritus) David Dabydeen has co-edited The Oxford Companion to Black British History (2007) and published in 2008 his sixth novel, Molly and the Muslim Stick (Macmillan). He is working on a neglected 19th Century Caribbean poet, Egbert Martin. His novel, Our Lady of Demarara was published in 2004. He was Consultant to Channel 4's three-part series on interracial sex, Forbidden Fruit , which was broadcast in 2003. His one- hour documentary Painting the People was broadcast by BBC television in 2004. He was awarded the 2004 Raja Rao Award for literature. He is Guyana's Ambassador and Permanent Delegate to UNESCO. He taught on the following MA courses in the Centre: Literary Translation and Creative (Re)Writing in a Global Context. Fictions and History. Literature of Migration. India in the Caribbean in Literature. Recent Publications. Our Lady of Demerara (Chichester: Dido Press, 2004) Lutchmee & Dilloo: A Study of West Indian Life by Edward Jenkins, ed. David Dabydeen (Oxford: Macmillan Caribbean, 2003) A Harlot's Progress (London: Jonathan Cape, 1999) Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation: Black Writers (Pickering and Chatto, 1999) The Counting House (London: Jonathan Cape, 1996) Turner (London: Jonathan Cape, 1995) Disappearance (London: Secker & Warburg, 1993) Black Writers in Britain, 1780-1890 (Edinburgh University Press, 1991) The Intended (London: Secker & Warburg, 1991) Recent News. He was awarded the Anthony Sabga Prize for Literature in 2008. His new novel, MOLLY AND THE MUSLIM STICK was published by Macmillan in 2008. David Dabydeen: The loose-tongued ambassador. Professor David Dabydeen writes fiction and poetry between midnight and four in the morning, sustained by cigarettes and occasional slurps of red wine. -
POST-COLONIAL LITERATURES in English
POST-COLONIAL LITERATURES in English Edited by JOHN THIEME Professor of New Literatures in English, University of Hull, UK EDITORIAL BOARD Bruce Bennett Shirley Chew Jean Pierre Dunx Michael dikes Coral Ann Howells G D Killam Meenakshi Mukherjee Rajiva Wijesinha Nana Wilson Tagoe I ( ' H A member of the Hodder Headline Group LONDON NEW YORK SYDNEY AUCKLAND Contents ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xvn INTRODUCTION 1 PA J?T T A FT? lf^ A JrnJK.1 I AtlxlK^A. WEST AFRICA Amos Tutuola From My Life in the Bush of Ghosts 12 Chinua Achebe 1 From Arrow of God 15 2 From What Has Literature Got to Do with It7 21 3 From Anthills of the Savannah ^ 26 Christopher Okigbo Siren Limits 30 Wole Soyinka 1 Abiku 33 2 From The Lion and the Jewel 34 Buchi Emecheta From The Joys of Motherhood 44 Niyi Osundare Harvestcall 50 Ben Okri Incidents at the Shrine 52 Ama Ata Aidoo 1 The Message 60 2 Motherhood and the Numbers Game 66 EAST AFRICA Okot p Bitek From Song of Lawino 68 Ngugi wa Thiong o 1 From A Grain of Wheat 73 2 From Decolonising the Mind 79 vi • Contents M G Vassanji Leaving 83 Abdulrazak Gurnah From Paradise 88 SOUTHERN AFRICA Nadine Gordimer Six Feet of the Country 96 Athol Fugard with John Kam and Winston Ntshona From Sizwe Bansi is Dead 104 Lauretta Ngcobo From And They Didn t Die 111 Mbulelo Mzamane My Cousin Comes to Jo burg 117 J M Coetzee From Foe 123 Bessie Head From A Question of Power 131 Tsitsi Dangarembga From Nervous Conditions 137 NORTH AFRICA Jamal Mahjoub From Navigation of a Rainmaker 145 Charles Harpur A Mid Summer Noon in the Australian Forest 150 -
In His Novel Disappearance, David Dabydeen Tells the Story of A
Table of Contents Table of Contents ........................................................................................................... 1 Introduction .................................................................................................................... 2 Postcolonialism .......................................................................................................... 6 Caribbean Colonial Background ................................................................................ 9 V.S. Naipaul ............................................................................................................. 14 David Dabydeen....................................................................................................... 18 Chapter One: The Enigma of Arrival ........................................................................... 21 Narrative Structure ................................................................................................... 21 Fictional Autobiography or Autobiographical Fiction? ........................................... 22 In the Country .......................................................................................................... 26 Perceptions of England ............................................................................................ 26 The Journey of Life .................................................................................................. 31 Decay and Constant Change ................................................................................... -
An Interview with David Dabydeen on Literature and Politics
International Journal of Comparative Literature & Translation Studies ISSN 2202-9451 Vol. 4 No. 3; July 2016 Flourishing Creativity & Literacy Australian International Academic Centre, Australia An Interview with David Dabydeen on Literature and Politics Interviewed by Ruzbeh Babaee University Putra Malaysia, Malaysia Received: - Accepted: - Published: 01-07-2016 doi:10.7575/aiac.ijclts.v.4n.3p.73 URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.ijclts.v.4n.3p.73 Professor David Dabydeen is a Guyanese-born writer, critic and academic at the Centre of Caribbean Studies at the University of Warwick. In 1993 he became Guyana's ambassador at UNESCO and is still a member of their Executive Board. He has been Guyana's ambassador to China since 2010. Professor Dabydeen has also won several international and national prizes such as the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, the Quiller-Couch Prize, and the Hind Rattan (Jewel of India). Among his works are Slave Song (1984), The Intended (1991), Disappearance (1993); and Our Lady of Demerara (2004). He also co-edited The Oxford Companion to Black British History in 2007. RB1: You are both a writer and a university professor of comparative literature. Do you know yourself first as a writer or a university professor? DD2: First as a writer. When I was a boy that is basically all I wanted to be. As a teenager I wrote the usual self-pitying stuff and, at 16 or 17, I attempted a novel in verse, inspired by some story in the Bible, I forgotten which; but gave up after a couple of pages. Why want to be a writer? I don’t know. -
Greaves, Cleveland Hamilton, Tony Kellman, Ian Mcdonald, Pamela Mordecai, Steve Persaud
1985 Poetry Michael Aarons, Christopher Aird, Edward Kamau Brathwaite, Mat\adai Das, Stanley Greaves, Cleveland Hamilton, Tony Kellman, Ian McDonald, Pamela Mordecai, Steve Persaud. Velma Pollard, A. J. Seymour. , -LITTLE KNOWN GUYANESE FICTION (2) - Joel Benjamin _ RECENT GUYANESE WRITING IN UK - Stewart Brown _ANANCY-STRATEGIES IN THE W ... OLE ARMOUR - Joyce Jonas + _.... _. 'YANESENESS OF GUYANESE WRtTING - Jeffrey Robinson ON AND CHANGE IN MUSIC -' Olivia Ahyoung g ;;to . S lsqC) CONTRmUTORS Dr. Edward Kamau Brathwaite - distinguished West Indian poet ar.d his. torian: Professor of Cultural History at V.W.I .• 1amaica. , Mahadai Das one of the leading "new generation" of Guyanese poets; at present studying in New York. Stan!ey Greaves leading Guyanese painter; poet; lecturer at University of Guyana. Pamela Mordecai Jamaican peet and radio and T.v. pro· ducer. Velma Pollard Guyane5e poet; lives in Jamaica. Chris:opher Aird Guyanese poet; lives in U.S.A. St!ve Persaud young Guyanese poet. Michael Aarons young Guyanese peet. Cleveland Hamilton poet; Jawyer and former be-ad teacher who wro!e the lyrics of "The Song of the Repub:ic." Tony Kellman Barbados poet; has published three col. lections privately: The Black Madonna and Otber Poems (1975); In Depths of Burning Light (1982); The Broken Sun (1984). Joel Benjamin Deputy Librarian. University of Guyana; M.A.. M.Phil.; special interests as a bibliographer and a bibliophile. Dr. Jeffrey Robinson senior lecturer in English at University of Guyana. Dr. Joyce Jonas B.A. (U. W.I.) and Ph. D. (University of Pennsylvania); lecturer at University of Guyana. Stewart Brown Editor of anthology of West Indian poems Caribbean Poetry Now; former teacher in Jamaica; has lectured on African and Caribbean literature at Wolverhampton Polytechnic. -
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University of Warwick institutional repository: http://go.warwick.ac.uk/wrap A Thesis Submitted for the Degree of PhD at the University of Warwick http://go.warwick.ac.uk/wrap/1161 This thesis is made available online and is protected by original copyright. Please scroll down to view the document itself. Please refer to the repository record for this item for information to help you to cite it. Our policy information is available from the repository home page. COOLIE CARTOGRAPHY CROSSING FRONTIERS THROUGH COOLITUDE One Volume By Shivani Sivagurunathan A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Comparative Literature University of Warwick, Centre for Translation and Comparative Cultural Studies September 2007 Table of Contents Preface ....................................................................................................................................... Chapter I: Introduction ............................................................................................................4 Beginnings a) ................................................................................................................... b) Colonialism its impact 9 and ........................................................................................ i) 1492 9 ........................................................................................................................ ii) European Capitalism 10 .......................................................................................... -
Postcolonial Literature
Revised Fall 2017 WESTERN UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH PhD QUALIFYING EXAMINATION READING LIST English 9919 (SF)/ 9939 (PF) POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURE In order to develop a wide-ranging competency to teach and research in the field of Postcolonial Literature, candidates will prepare a reading list according to the instructions and requirements below. 1. Instructions i. Secondary Field Exam Students are responsible for all the titles on the CORE reading list. ii. Primary Field Exam Students are responsible for all the titles on the CORE reading list. In addition to the Core reading list, there are two SPECIALIZATION OPTIONS: Part One and Part Two. Students must select 15 texts from Part One and 15 texts from Part Two of the SPECIALIZATION OPTIONS. 2. Exam Structure i. This examination is divided into three parts: Part A: Poetry and Drama; Part B: Prose; Part C: General Question. Answer ONE (1) question from each of the THREE Parts. ii. All questions are of equal value. Students should not write extensively on one author more than once. iii. Make sure that your exam as a whole deals with writers who constitute a balanced representation of countries and regions. CORE TEXTS Africa Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart Ngugi wa Thiong’o: Petals of Blood Tsitsi Dangarembga: Nervous Conditions J. M. Coetzee: Disgrace Chistopher Okigbo: Heavensgate Stella Chipasula, Frank Chipasula, eds.: Heineman Book of African Women’s Poetry Okot Bitek: Song of Lawino Wole Soyinka: Death and the King’s Horseman. Ama ata Aidoo: Dilemma of a Ghost; Anowa Zakes Mda: We Shall Sing for the Fatherland and Other Plays Caribbean Derek Walcott: Omeros; Ti-Jean and His Brothers Kamau Braithwaite: The Arrivants Grace Nichols: I is a Long Memoried Woman Marlene Nourbese Phillip: Zong! David Dabydeen: Turner Edouard Glissant: Monsieur Toussaint: A Play Aimé Césaire: A Tempest: Based on Shakespeare's 'The Tempest’; Adaptation for a Black Theatre Honor Ford-Smith: Three Jamaican Plays: A Postcolonial Anthology Edwidge Danticat: The Farming of Bones V.