Finding myself
Subtitle: essays on race, politics and culture
By: Clem Seecharan
Publisher: Peepal Tree Press; Peepal Tree Press Ltd.
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Leeds, England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9781845232474
Subjects: Caribbean literature; History and criticism; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Tiger in the stars" : Ian McDonald and my retrieval of self-belief; title: Indians in Guyana : an overview; title: India's awakening and the imagining of the "East Indian Nation" in British Guiana; title: Sugar in my blood; title: Girmitiyas and my discovery of India; title: In Sir Vidia's shadow, out of historical darkness; title: The shape of the passion : the historical context of Martin Carter's poetry of protest, 1951-64; title: Balram Singhy Rai's anticommunism and cultural idealism; title: Whose freedom at midnight? Machinations towards Guyana's independence, May 1966; title: The anatomy of Cheddi Jagan's Marxism; title: Culture and ethnicity in post-emancipation Guyana; title: "Helping lions learn to paint" : Walter Rodney (1942-80); title: Empire and family in the shaping of a West Indian intellectual : the young C.L.R. James, a preliminary assessment; title: Interview with Ivan Madray, the forgotten cricketer : "Da coolie ga mek abi hunt ledda".