Professor Gordon Rohlehr (1942 - 2023) - VA (2018)
Channel: Visual Art and Production
Date: 2023-04-05

VA History Series.....
Tony Hall spoke to the Professor in 2018 to document his life and experiences. In this clip he talks about his early academic life and our colonial history...
Video production - Visual Art....
Executive Producer - Timmy Mora ...

Gordon Rohlehr was a Guyana-born scholar and critic of West Indian literature, who is noted for his study of popular culture in the Caribbean, including oral poetry, calypso and cricket. Professor Rohlehr left us on January 29 2023. May he rest in peace.

His publications include: Pathfinder: Black Awakening in “The Arrivants” of Edward Kamau Brathwaite (Tunapuna: College Press, 1981); Cultural Resistance and the Guyana State (Casa de las Américas, 1984); Calypso and Society in Pre-Independence Trinidad (Port of Spain, 1990); My Strangled City and Other Essays (Longman Trinidad, 1992); The Shape of That Hurt and Other Essays (Longman Trinidad, 1992); A Scuffling of Islands: Essays on Calypso (Lexicon Trinidad Ltd, 2004); Transgression, Transition, Transformation: Essays in Caribbean Culture (Lexicon, 2007); and Ancestories: Readings of Kamau Brathwaite’s “Ancestors” (Trinidad: Lexicon, 2010) and My Whole Life is Calypso: Essays on Sparrow (2015).