Download or read book Littscapes written by Kris Rampersad and published by Amazon Digital Services LLC - KDP Print US. This book was released on 2012 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LiTTscapes is every reader's entry into fiction. LiTTscapes - Landscapes of Fiction is the keepsake official commemorative publication marking the Jubilee of Independence of Trinidad & Tobago. It celebrates the islands' contribution to world literary heritage - the umbilical link between fiction-realism-nationhood in Commonwealth Caribbean world literature. In full colour easy reading coffee table-style, it explores most fiction written from as early as Sir Walter Raleigh, the dawn of English literary sensibility to the 50th year of Independence. It sets the fictional imagination of Nobel Laureates Derek Walcott and Sir Vidia Naipaul along with about 100 other fiction writers in contexts of real-life experiences through more than 500 colour photographs. Readers experience intimate details of island life, walking in the footsteps of the islands' famed writers and larger-than-life literary characters, travelling through the landscapes of festivals, sports, architecture, education, petroleum, sugar, cocoa and other industry, institutions and its cultures, festivals, traditions and lifestyles. It details exciting literary moments, literary heritage walking tours and cross-country excursions with incisive, witty, literary analyses, critique and observations. It is an essential companion for any explorer, reader, travel and heritage enthusiast, tourist, student, policy maker or academic. The author Dr Kris Rampersad, an award-winning international journalist literary promoter (krisrampersad.com) heritage educator and literary scholar, meshes rigorous attention to detail with an easy-to-read style that makes the gallery of fiction approachable and accessible to average reader. This is an essential companion for literary enthusiasts/students, an exciting compendium for travelers, explorers familiar, or not too familiar, with the islands. What Critics Say - "LiTTscapes is a work of art; a documentary, a travelogue, a critical work with visual & literary power. It takes us on a tour of the country, giving some exposure to almost every aspect of life. No tourist guide can give a better, more comprehensive introduction to Trinidad. It is very easy to read. It shows the value that literature has in promoting and presenting the nation.No one book can be everything; no one book can set out to achieve everything that a literature and a visual text can do for its people & its nation; but whatever you say one book can't do, this one almost does it. Features literary houses & the Lion House of Nobel Laureate Sir VS Naipaul, the capital city, other towns, streets, urban communities, villages, historic buildings & places, vegetation, animals, institutions, culture and landscape. There is considerable visual beauty, what Derek Walcott calls "visual surprise" in his Nobel Lecture; an impressive coverage of social history, geography, & politics (Prof Al Creighton, Head Guyana Prize for Literature)- Little, if any, of local landscape and culture is omitted .... Rampersad bridges the gap between fiction and reality, painstakingly mapping the spaces ... successfully charters a path towards deeper understanding of not only the literary works that define us, but also the authors and their multifaceted inspiration (Zahra Gordon, Trinidad Guardian)An opportunity to commit to our own literary tours, to celebrate our literatures in our schools, in our communities as a necessary prerequisite to our development, to heal our self-schism (Pearl Eintou Springer, National Poet Laureate). So well crafted, can be an inspiration to others - First Lady, Dr Jean Ramjohn Richards. "That inclusive aspect of Trinidadian culture is evident in this book: like a good fete, it just draws you in, so you don't want to leave..." Stephen Spark, Soca News, UK.- Rum shops, cathedrals, hummingbirds, cricket, weddings, carnival, Divali, steelpan, Christmas, seasons - some startling topics in this extraordinary survey - Martin Mulligan Commonwealth Journal/Financial Times UK.
Download or read book Finding a Place written by Kris Rampersad and published by Ian Randle Publishers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Kris Rampersad's book takes an intimate look at the blossoming of Trinidad's literary consciousness. Through the eyes and the words of the writers, she maps their contribution to Indo Trinidadian literature from those evolutionary years in 1850, to it flowering in the 1950s. It also represents a close look at the exciting oral culture of these people as depicted by their music, dance and storytelling, and examines the biographies of the main figures who contributed to social, cultural, economic and political development throughout this period. While the main focus of the work is on language and literary development, other aspects of Trinidad's development are also explored - cross-culturation, politics, race relations, social mobility and women's issues - in relation to their influence and impact on the writings. Further, the raw material of Finding A Place (12 little-known and rare publications between 1850 and 1950) introduces a new set of data through which the evolution of Trinidad and Tobago can be examined by others. "
Download or read book Through the Political Glass Ceiling written by Kamla Persad-Bissessar and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Text provides roadmaps of Persad-Bissessar's journey into T & T's highest political offices, through to the defining moments of the May 2010 snap election. It also presents the paradox of politics and society in Trinidad and Tobago in the context of the leadership between the country's longest standing political entity, the People's National Movement and the first female leader of a political party, United National Congress' Kamla Persad-Bissessar.
Download or read book Catalogue 1866 written by and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Adventures of Gurudeva written by Seepersad Naipaul and published by William Heinemann. This book was released on 1995 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book WHORES FOR GLORIA written by William T. Vollmann and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2013-01-02 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With his first three works of fiction—the novels You Bright and Risen Angels and The Ice-Shirt, and the collection The Rainbow Stories—William T. Vollmann announced himself as a writer of rare and ferocious talent, with critics comparing him to William Burroughs, Thomas Pynchon, and T.C. Boyle. His new novel is the story of Jimmy, who has been deserted by his lover, a prostitute by the name of Gloria. In the despair of his loneliness, and his drunken grief, he reassembles Gloria’s presence out of whatever he can buy from the hookers on the street—the fragments of their lives and dreams, and locks of hair they are willing to share for a price. In his search for these snatches of intimacy he meets the hustlers, drunks, and prostitutes of San Francisco’s Tenderloin district: Candy, who beats her customers when they ask for it but refuses to let them call her a bitch; Snake, who pimps his wife; Nicole, whose job it is to give men AIDS; Jack, who shoots his woman’s earnings into his arm but still likes Chopin even though he doesn’t have a record player; and Gloria, who may or may not be a figment of Jimmy’s imagination. Vollmann writes with explosive power of the inner city, unflinching in the way he confronts the solitude of the homeless and unloved, the insulted and the injured of skid-row America. His exhilarating, high-voltage style and lyric language touch the heart and retrieve a jubilant integrity from the harsh struggles of his characters. Here is a world of harrowing truth, beautifully expressed by a writer of prodigious gifts.
Download or read book The Year in San Fernando written by Michael Anthony and published by Hodder Education. This book was released on 2021-06-28 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There have been many great and enduring works of literature by Caribbean authors over the last century. The Caribbean Contemporary Classics collection celebrates these deep and vibrant stories, overflowing with life and acute observations about society. This luminous book recounted through the eyes of the 12-year-old Francis, describes the year he spends, far away from home, in San Fernando. As his initial confusion gives way to increasing confidence and maturity, the open consciousness of the boy allows different times, events and places to co-exist. Over the course of one year, through Francis' eyes, we see the cycle of natural change and progression; the daily round of the market, showing the fruits of different seasons, the passage of dry season to rainy and back again to dry, the cane fires as the crop comes to an end, all symbolising the progression of the boy's year. And weaving in and amongst these mundane but intense experiences Francis feels his way to some understanding of adulthood.
Download or read book In the Black written by Althea Prince and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a mix of short fiction, poetry, dub poetry and hip hop, some of Black Canada's foremost writers from across generations explore history, community, love, and healing. The collection consists of writing from Catherine Bain, George Elliott Clarke, Gayle Gonsalves, Joanne C. Hillhouse, Clifton Joseph, Dwayne Morgan, Motion, Jelani Nias (J-Wyze), Djanet Sears, Mansa Trotman, and the editor, Althea Prince.
Download or read book A Writer s People written by V.S. Naipaul and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-03-22 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part meditation, part remembrance, A Writer’s People by V. S. Naipaul is a privileged insight, full of gentleness, humour and feeling, into the mind of one of our greatest writers. For the ‘serious traveller’, one who is fully engaged with the world, there can be no single view. Our author’s purpose, then, ‘is not literary criticism or biography’, but only to set out the writing and ways of seeing to which he was exposed. So here is colonial Trinidad (the early Derek Walcott and Naipaul’s own father); the culture of school (Flaubert and the classical world); England, where with the help of friends the writer seeks to make his way; and, inevitably for a colonial Indian, there is India, to be approached through the residue of Indian culture and the scattered memories of nineteenth-century immigrants, leading to a special understanding of Mahatma Gandhi.
Download or read book Community of Insecurity written by Dr Laurie Nathan and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-04-28 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the formation, evolution and effectiveness of the regional security arrangements of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), Nathan examines a number of vital and troubling questions: ∗ why has SADC struggled to establish a viable security regime? ∗ why has it been unable to engage in successful peacemaking?, and ∗ why has it defied the optimistic prognosis in the early 1990s that it would build a security community in Southern Africa? He argues that the answers to these questions lie in the absence of common values among member states, the weakness of these states and their unwillingness to surrender sovereignty to the regional organization. Paradoxically, the challenge of building a co-operative security regime lies more at the national level than at the regional level. The author's perspective is based on a unique mix of insider access, analytical rigour and accessible theory.
Download or read book Oh Gad written by Joanne C. Hillhouse and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-07-22 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nikki is embroiled in a hurricane of an existence in Antigua which includes a political hot potato, confusion in her romantic life, and deepening involvement in the lives of her abandoned family in a stirring novel about a woman facing cross-cultural odds.
Download or read book Kisdadee Girl written by Maggie Harris and published by HopeRoad. This book was released on 2012-07-26 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Powerful forces surge through British Guiana as it transforms into independent Guyana. Margaret must navigate her own independence. Scottish, Portuguese, African: all and none of these, this teenager of the emergent Caribbean learns seduction Hollywood-style, but she belongs to more than a century of transgressions. She kisses forbidden faces, the living colours of colonial history. Love and loss come home to her in two men of the river.;When Margaret is just fifteen, her father dies. A little later, she packs up her dreams, leaves her riverman and makes the Atlantic crossing. But the spirits of her old geography keep whispering.
Download or read book Between Two Seasons written by Isaiah James Boodhoo and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 1994 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in Trinidad, Manu's obsession to play diable in the carnival leads him into conflict with his wife, Samdaye, and sets into motion a chain of events that threatens to destroy the lives of his family and neighbours. A theme of economic injustice to plantation workers is woven into the story.
Download or read book Those Who Eat the Cascadura written by Sam Selvon and published by . This book was released on 2022-06-30 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I see trouble. Plenty trouble." The village obeahman Manko foresees trouble when an English-man Garry Johnson comes to stay in the cacao estate of his friend Roger Franklin in Trinidad. Before long his prophecy is fulfilled when the visitor falls in love with the lovely Indian Sarojini. What had been a carefree atmosphere quickly evaporates, replaced with a tension-filled air of jealousies, rivalries and intrigues as three races interact in post-independence Trinidad.
Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean Literature written by Michael A. Bucknor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-06-14 with total page 883 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean Literature offers a comprehensive, critically engaging overview of this increasingly significant body of work. The volume is divided into six sections that consider: the foremost figures of the Anglophone Caribbean literary tradition and a history of literary critical debate textual turning points, identifying key moments in both literary and critical history and bringing lesser known works into context fresh perspectives on enduring and contentious critical issues including the canon, nation, race, gender, popular culture and migration new directions for literary criticism and theory, such as eco-criticism, psychoanalysis and queer studies the material dissemination of Anglophone Caribbean literature and generic interfaces with film and visual art This volume is an essential text that brings together sixty-nine entries from scholars across three generations of Caribbean literary studies, ranging from foundational critical voices to emergent scholars in the field. The volume's reach of subject and clarity of writing provide an excellent resource and springboard to further research for those working in literature and cultural studies, postcolonial and diaspora studies as well as Caribbean studies, history and geography.
Download or read book Eric Williams and the Making of the Modern Caribbean written by Colin A. Palmer and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in Trinidad, Eric Williams (1911-81) founded the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago's first modern political party in 1956, led the country to independence from the British culminating in 1962, and became the nation's first prime minister. Before entering politics, he was a professor at Howard University and wrote several books, including the classic Capitalism and Slavery. In the first scholarly biography of Williams, Colin Palmer provides insights into Williams's personality that illuminate his life as a scholar and politician and his tremendous influence on the historiography and politics of the Caribbean. Palmer focuses primarily on the fourteen-year period of struggles for independence in the Anglophone Caribbean. From 1956, when Williams became the chief minister of Trinidad and Tobago, to 1970, when the Black Power-inspired February Revolution brought his administration face to face with a younger generation intellectually indebted to his revolutionary thought, Williams was at the center of most of the conflicts and challenges that defined the region. He was most aggressive in advocating the creation of a West Indies federation to help the region assert itself in international political and economic arenas. Looking at the ideas of Williams as well as those of his Caribbean and African peers, Palmer demonstrates how the development of the modern Caribbean was inextricably intertwined with the evolution of a regional anticolonial consciousness.
Download or read book The Stud written by Jackie Collins and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1999 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London, 1969: The hottest, hippest, wildest domain of hedonists, where swingers swarm the clubs and discos in a high stakes quest to live for the moment. At the center of this decadent scene, one man plays all the angles, never missing a chance to score with the beautiful women who desire him--and walks the line between ecstasy and overload. Now the woman he wants most knows his number--and may just call his bluff. First published in 1968, this was Collins' first U.S. novel.
