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The Pastures of Paradise
Neville Ramdeholl
ISBN 1-4241-6081-2
2008-1002
An ex-British soldier finds himself caught up in a world of
war and intrigue as he desperately tries to hold onto the woman he loves. The
fight for survival spirals into a world of intrigue and murder. Jared If eller
finds how tenuous life has become as he fights to maintain the relationship in a
world quickly falling apart. The survival instincts needed to maintain life not
only expose him to danger, but he learns that there is a price to pay to enjoy
the pristine nature of paradise.
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The Friendship of Shoes
N.D.Williams
ISBN 1-59926-041-7
2008-1001
In these stories the Caribbean experience is explored
wherever its peoples can be found -- in the city of New York, or in the streets
of Kingston, Jamaica.
"Even when words fail, sex can be relied on to tell the
truth"
- J.M.Coetzee
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Timelines of Guyanese History
1498 - 2006
Lal Balkaran
ISBN 978-0-9735545-3-3
2007-1003
Here is another solid reference book on Guyana. It captures
key events over the years from 1498 (when Columbus first sailed past the coast)
right up to 2006. There are also eight entries covering the BC era in the
Amerindian section showing the movement of Guyana’s first inhabitants. Discover
the history of Guyana – its people, the explorers, the politicians, the
naturalists, the extraordinary feats of human accomplishments, and a host of
other key issues. The information is fascinating and informative. Indeed, the
amazing historical facts have been drawn from books, reports, periodicals,
pamphlets, and the internet. The short format of issues and events makes for
excellent reading in this era of information overload and time constraints.
With over 1500 events and issues, the book is organized by
subject in chronological sequence. The events are categorized into:
Amerindians, Architecture, Business, Church, Culture,
Diplomatic, Economic, Education, Exploration, General (including Natural
History, Royal Visits, and Philately), Georgetown, Immigration (including
Indentureship), Legal, Literary, Media, Military, Mining, Music, Political,
Slavery, Sports, Territorial, and Trade Unions.
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The Brown Curtains
Clive Sankardayal
ISBN 0-9704432-5-0 & 978-0-9704432-5-0
2007-1002
What happens in The Brown Curtains when a group of
Guyanese professionals migrate to St. Lucia to take advantage of better pay,
presents a lesson in racial, cultural and religious tolerance that has important
implications for the CSME and Caribbean integration.
As one of the few West Indian novels to explore intra
Caribbean migration and cultural differences among CARICOM countries, The
Brown Curtains is indeed a path making work of art.
"A novel of great humor, and philosophical and political
insight."
— Allan Weekes, Author of Talk of the Devil
"The Brown Curtains embroils readers in a steaming
love story involving Raj, an Indo-Guyanese emigrant to St. Lucia, and Felicity,
an Afro-St. Lucian beauty. The only question is whether their love can withstand
the racial and religious bigotry of Raj's parents."
—Anderson Reynolds, Author of Death by Fire
"A powerful commentary on race, culture and religion, and the
uncompromising influence of love... an insightful, persuasive and entertaining
work of art ... Sankardayal has succeeded in producing a work of genius." —
Modeste Downes, Author of Phases
"Whether you are Black, Indian, Christian, Hindu or Moslem,
The Brown Curtains gently goads you in the direction of forgotten
trails and alleys of the diaspora. It is a novel for everyone because it shows
that adapting to a new life is the same wherever you arrive."
— Michael Aubertin, Author of Neg Maron: Freedom Fighters
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Bibliography of Guyana and Guyanese Writers
Second Edition
with a Foreword by Jan Carew
Lal Balkaran
ISBN 0-9735545-2 & 978-0-9735545-2-6
2007-1001
The essential guide to books on Guyana and by
Guyanese writers!
Here is the second edition of a solid guide to books written
on Guyana over the years since 1596 when Sir Walter Ralegh’s volume on part of
the country first appeared. It also includes books written by Guyanese and
published in and out of Guyana on a range of other subjects.
This version contains almost 1,800 titles, well over 1,000
authors, and is comprehensively organized into one Index and five Appendices. It
is a broad-based bibliographical reference showcasing the range of books on
Guyana and by Guyanese writers.
This is invaluable
work for historians and other liberal arts scholars, and others far from those
fields, as it covers a full spectrum of scholarship, from novels and poetry,
other literary anthologies to scientific works.
This is an invaluable resource for anyone who would want to know
more about Guyana and its people.
I recommend it highly.
– Professor Jan Carew, Guyanese literary lion.
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Bauxite, Sugar and Mud
Memories of Living in Colonial Guyana, 1928-1944
Patricia Wendy Dathan
ISBN 1-896754-45-7
2006-100 6
Life in a Canadian bauxite-mining camp surrounded by tropical
rainforest, where a small group of Northerners do their best to cope cheerfully
with heat, snakes, wartime restrictions, and tragedies.
All my memories begin where the river flows past the
wharf-like stelling where we used to swim, past the airy house on stilts where
we used to live, past the hospital where I was born and the bauxite plant and
office where my father used to work, past the cricket field at Cockatara where
my first world ends. Down and past us the Demerara flows through the green
rainforest where the tangled roots of the mangrove come down to the riverside to
drink, down to the city of Georgetown and out to the wide muddy sea.
-- Patricia Wendy Dathan
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Cooperstown is my Mecca
Rudy A.S. Gafur
ISBN 0-9699173-0-9
2006-100 5
Cooperstown is My Mecca is
the story of a fan's passion for the National Baseball Hall of Fame and his
affection for the village of Cooperstown. It tells of the author's
conversion to baseball, his development as a fan and student of the history
of the game, and pays tribute to baseball's unsung constituency - those
largely responsible for promoting and popularizing the game - the writers
and broadcasters.
The book describes the grandeur of the Hall of Fame and the author's
experiences, some quite poignant, during his annual pilgrimage to the
Baseball Shrine for the Induction ceremonies, over the past nine years.
For prospective visitors, a number of appendices provide information on a
variety of subjects such as accommodation, food, parking, the Hall of Fame,
the Baseball Library and Archive, recreational facilities and the many other
attractions to be found in Cooperstown.
Throughout the book, Gafur's love for the National Pastime and his reverence
for Baseball's Mecca, shine through like a beacon.
"I really enjoyed reading it
.... I learned a lot about Cooperstown even though I have been there often.
Gafur makes one feel when reading ... as if you are right there seeing it
all happen. Anyone who plans on going to Cooperstown should read this book.
It's very good."
Bobby Doerr,
Hall of Famer
"The book is precise, very factual and obviously took a lot of
painstaking research. I hope it meets with the success it deserves."
Ferguson
Jenkins, Hall of Famer
"Rudy Gafur most certainly has to be the most influential cricketer to
turn to baseball since Henry (Father) Chadwick of Britain invented the
boxscore back in the game's infancy. His feel and zeal for baseball and
Cooperstown are so intense and thorough, and he is so dedicated that it's
too bad this grand Guyanese convert wasn't old enough to cover the first
Hall of Fame induction.
Here's a Hall of Fame board
member's vote for Gafur as mayor of base-ball's Brigadoon and his personal
Mecca – Cooperstown."
Bob Broeg,
Contributing Sports Editor, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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Negative Ecstasy
The Star Trek Seductions and other Mass Deceptions
Arnold Itwaru - 2000 - Other Eye
ISBN 1-896887-01-5
2006-1004
The unbearable hedonistic
delirium of unsated desire in the mass production of consumption as
dissatisfaction.... The inverted scream in the unrelenting inauthentication
of Being.... The eye which sees only as directed and assumes sight.... The
search for joy in the emptiness of consumer pleasure.... The disembodied
melody which reaches out into the lonely night of technological
seduction.... Rage turned into a scientific pattern of repressed anger....
Loneliness in the dread of being eternally lost.... The search for the self
which negates the self in which the search never-the-less continues.... The
jubilant dance of deception.
Compelling, incisive analyses of the production of thought and the
incarceration of the Subject in the cultural imperialism of the
technocapitalist mass media and consciousness industry.
This book is a must for those who are interested in looking beyond the
seductive dazzle of superficiality in mass mediated images of the self.
A.H. Itwaru lectures in the Social Sciences at York University and in
Caribbean Studies at New College, University of Toronto.
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Morning of
Yesterday
Seven Stories
Arnold Itwaru - 1999 - Other Eye
ISBN 1-896887-00-7
2006-1003
The author of the classic,
Shanti, brings us seven powerful, carefully chiseled lyrical involving
stories of protest, lament and compassion that are soothing stirring and
disturbing at the same time, as he celebrates Indian people's struggle for
dignity in Guyana and abroad. Precise, yet passionate, intensely political,
these stories also join moments of memory and dream in a world of
multitudinous variation, often with shocking intensity, at once musical and
emotionally wrenching.
"...a ruminative
journey through tormented mindscapes...
...Itwaru often reads like a Gordimer, Soyinka or Achebe in his dedicated
pursuit of the truth...
...and mincing not
a single word, he leaves us wordless."
Sunday Observer.
Delhi, India
H. Itwaru was born in Port
Mourant, Guyana and resides in Toronto, Canada. A visual artist as well as
an internationally published writer, he also has a Ph.D. in sociology. He
writes compellingly on a wale range of subjects. In Guyana he received two
national awards for his poetry. He is a part time lecturer at the University
of Toronto where he has designed the Caribbean Studies Program (Minor and
Major).
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Home & Back
Arnold Itwaru - 2001 - TSAR Publications
ISBN 0-920661-94-7
2006-1002
After residing uneasily in Canada
for over twenty years. Deo returns to Guyana, having dreamt always of
coining home. but finds there a disconcerting homelessness where every totem
of his memory has been violated. His mother is dying. He is a stranger to
everyone else. There is emptiness where his father once lived. Dismay and
sorrow and terror are etched in the lives of everyone around. It is within
this that Deo struggles to make sense of himself. and the things which have
fallen apart around him. the memory of his past clashing against a tortured
present and a questionable future.
Home and Back is a powerful and merciless indictment of modem.
postcolonial West Indies. At the same time Itwaru brings us a touching
lyrical meditation on growth and loss. the departure from home and life
lived between remembering and forgetting in an alien elsewhere. With
artistic maturity and insight. ltwaru offers a visceral understanding of
community and pays homage to the struggles for integrity and dignity within
the vicissitudes of harsh reality.
ARNOLD HARRICHAND ITWARU is the
author of the modern classic Shanti and eleven other books. He was born in
Guyana and resides in Toronto, Canada. A visual artist as well, he writes
compellingly on a wide range of subjects. In Guyana he received two national
awards for his poetry. He is currently a lecturer at the University of
Toronto. Home and Back is his thirteenth book and fourth book of fiction.
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Stereotypes
Colin Ninvalle - 2004 - Toucan Publishing Inc.
ISBN 0-9731418-1-6
2006-1001
STEREOTYPES, described by the
author as "conceptual viruses", is a "must read" because of its stark
association with other viral infections that have come to the forefront of
public consciousness today. Stereotypes infest many of our treasured
perceptions, but, curiously enough, this species of' social germs has
acquired a "taken-for-granted" status in every practice. Therein lies the
danger.
The book brings a fresh
perspective to a topic that is sensitive, complex and difficult to manage.
Mr. Ninvalle shows us the manner in which stereotypes concentrate, and
indeed mutate, both within and among a combination of areas of ordinary
social life and social-scientific studies: Everyday social practices, Race
and Ethnic interactions and, in particular, known alternative discourses
such as Marxism, Feminism and Afro-centrism. The tool he uses, "symbolic
equations", allows us to picture the real nature and reach of' stereotypes,
and forces us to re-examine our thinking in these and other areas.
STEREOTYPES can be overwhelming
and insidious. Nevertheless, the author ends the book on a high note of
optimism. This is what is unique about his approach to the subject. The
spiritual face of humanity consistently comes to the surface of the
analysis, especially when the author organizes his message in little
stories. He reminds us that, the scourge of stereotypes is actually a
"mind-made" phenomenon that can, as he believes, be completely erased from
our thinking processes once we start looking at, and talking to each other
more from the "heart".
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Rainwater
Janet Alamelu Naidu - 2005 - Greenheart
ISBN 0-9685868-1-3
2005-1003
"Rainwater" is a groundbreaking
work of stories in poetic form which contains a ‘glossary’ of words that
remind readers of the diversity of Guyanese and Caribbean society.
A collection of 51 poems, the
absorbing book begins with the long voyage of Indians traveling from India
to Guyana and some of whom returned after their Indentureship contract
ended. The book brings to life a recollection of a period in IndoCaribbean
history with poems that invoke the imagination of travelers making their
journey across the Kala Pani (dark water) and their struggles in their new
place of settlement. Moreover, it highlights part of the minorities of
Indians who migrated from Madras (now Chennai in Tamil Nadu). The themes of
the poetry take the reader on a journey of the Caribbean experience of
Indian Indentureship and their movements from place to place.
“If the poems in Winged Heart, Janet Naidu’s first volume, disclose an
earnest desire to escape from colonial confinement, those in her second
volume, Rainwater, revel in altogether more affectionate, balanced and
lyrical evocation of her bitter-sweet Guyanese past, and its layered issues
of migration, identity, love, and the role of women in the modern world..”
– Frank Birbalsingh
Professor Emeritus, Department of English, York University, Toronto, Canada
“These poems are heartbeats in ‘the tunnel of leaving and returning’.
They move from birthplace to places stained in struggle and longing. Like
rainwater, they are awash with cleansing light and beauty.”
– Arnold Harrichand Itwaru
Professor and Director of Caribbean Studies: New College, University of
Toronto.
Poet, artist and author of the classic Shanti
“Janet Naidu’s work reads like a poetic mosaic that is specifically
Indo-Caribbean and universal at the same time. Emotions and experiences such
as exile, nostalgia, feminist self-assertions, cultural identity, and desire
are brought to life in imagery that remains vivid, lush, sensual, and
poignant.”
– Brinda J. Mehta
Professor of
French and Francophone Studies: Mills College,
Oakland, California and author of Diasporic (Dis) locations: Indo-Caribbean
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The Rise of The Phoenix in
Guyana's Turbulent Politics
Edwin Ali
ISBN
2005-1001
The ‘Rise of the Phoenix in
Guyana’s Turbulent Politics’ is about the political development of British
Guiana (now Guyana) from the period 1947 to 1997.
It gives a detailed account of the general elections during that period and
also outlines the results for each party and the percentages won as well as
the suspension of the Constitution.
Details are also given for the period 1962, 1963 and 1964 during the
disturbances, the burning down of the city, the 80 day strike and the
subsequent removal from office of the Peoples Progressive Party.
Photographs cover the striking employees of Bookers who opposed the Kaldor
Budget, first building set on fire in Water Street on February 16, 1962 and
the riot squad on Water Street, and the hand shake coalition between Peter
D’Aguiar and Burnham.
It is a factual book and draws the reader to digest the significant events
that shaped the history and future of the 83,000 square mile Republic on the
North Eastern tip of South America.
Hazrat (Edwin) Ali was born
in the then British Guiana on October 7, 1940. He is the father of five
grown children and six grand children.
A journalist for 44 years, he was Editor of Caribbean Today News Magazine
for nine years and later became the paper's Travel Editor. He is a former
Editor of the now defunct Caribbean Lifestyles Magazine. Ali is currently
Caribbean Correspondent for Jetsettersmagazine.com out of Las Vegas and
Assistant Editor of Caribbean Voice newspaper. He is a former Editor in
Chief of the Guyana Broadcasting Corporation, correspondent for the BBC,
Reuters of London, Gemini News Service of London, Caribbean News Agency,
Radio Antilles of Montserrat and Alacode of Colombia.
A graduate of the University of Guyana, he has credits in Print and Radio
Communications, English, Economics, Caribbean Studies and Sociology and has
had training from the British Ministry of Overseas Development, the
University of the West Indies and UNESCO. He is also a graduate of Cuffy
Ideological Institute and the Critchlow Labor College and is also Honorary
Chairman of the Clerical and Commercial Workers Union.
Recipient of an “Excellence in Journalism” Award from the Caribbean Media
Exchange in May 2002, Ali has also been honored by the Caribbean Business
Network for his contribution in the field of Communications.
He has traveled extensively throughout the Caribbean and West Indies, Europe
and some of the former Eastern Bloc countries North Korea and Egypt and made
the pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia in 1999. |
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Muslims in America After the Catastrophic Tragedy of 9/11
Edwin Ali
ISBN
2005-1002
Muslims in America Following The
Catastrophic Tragedy of 9/11 traces some of the major repercussions of the
tragedy, a tragedy which has effected every household throughout the world,
whether the affluent, middle class, rank and file or the lumpen proletariat.
Even now in 2005, the rippling effects are still being felt, evidently by
Muslims throughout the world, especially those seeking to migrate to the
United States which is seen as the bastion of democracy and the most
industrialized and richest nations of the world.
Extensive quotes are taken from the Council of American Islamic Relations,
CAIR which documents hundreds of incidents involving Muslims whose only
crime was that they were the followers of Islam. |
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WOW - Working On Wisdom
100 Booster Shots For The
Mind
Pa'Tricha Haynes ·
PPC Books
ISBN 0-9753755-0-4
2004-1005
Working On Wisdom is a simple,
yet practical way to counteract or neutralize the mental confusion and
fatigue that bombard us in our daily lives. This book provides a powerful
tool that allows you to think deeper, reach higher, and acquire a greater
state of Livingness that rises above the negative effects and circumstances
of fear, sorrow, and anger. With just a few moments of your daily time and
focus, you can hold onto or return to that state of being where knowledge or
what is true or right is coupled with just judgment as to action. Here is
the ultimate opportunity to work on your own wisdom.
The author was born and raised in Guyana, has been living in the United
States for the past 25 years, and currently resides in Tampa, Florida with
her daughter. She obtained her undergraduate degree from Howard University
and her graduate degree from Ohio University. |
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Earthly Tribulations
J.R.Singh ·
Publish America
ISBN 1-4137-0487-5
2004-1004
EARTHLY TRIBULATIONS is a
collection of essays based on social, economic and political issues. These
concise analyses are based on a number of widely debated topics, aimed at
refreshing our minds on past experiences and contemporary issues. They form
a pragmatic view of our earthly problems relating to corrupt governments,
laws, spiritual beliefs, racism, war, women’s rights, abortion, health care,
poverty, sickness and death. Readers will get an opportunity to examine most
of their earthly problems amid conflicting views, beliefs and desires, and
to reflect on many of life’s sorrowful experiences.
J.R. SINGH was born June 29, 1953 in the town of Blenheim on the island of
Leguan, Guyana. In 1977 he immigrated to Canada, where he later studied
spiritual beliefs and ancient myths. Since then he has been actively writing
fiction and non- fiction themes that are thoughtful and informative. He is
the author of the visionary fiction novel titled The True Self. |
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Stories
from Guyana - A Collection of Jumbee Tales
Rudy A.S. Gafur ·
Toucan Publishing
ISBN 0-9731418-2-4
2004-1003
Autographed!
Stories From Guyana: A Collection of
Jumbee Tales, is an attempt to preserve what was once part of a
strong oral tradition that went into decline as a result of a number of
factors, including emigration and resettlement. Culled from the author’s
repository of stories, all but one of the tales originated in Guyana during
the heyday of the sugar plantation system. Social life on the plantation was
characterized by the concentration of large numbers of workers in relatively
small areas. This closeness made it easy for people to gather for
story-telling.
That social structure was dismantled when
workers were moved to extra-nuclear housing schemes. This dispersion,
coupled with large-scale emigration, proved detrimental to story-telling as
it was no longer possible to meet as before.
The author’s vivid recollection of stories
that he heard more than four decades ago, is testimony to the power of folk
tales in making a lasting impression on people, particularly the younger
generation.
Written in a folksy style, the stories are
easy to follow. Words which arc unfamiliar to the reader, are listed in a
glossary and sentences containing many such words are explained in
parentheses. Today, story-telling in Guyana is fast becoming a lost art and
there is growing evidence that it may die altogether. Stories From Guyana
aims at stemming that tide while contributing to a resurgence of folk
memory.
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What is Man?
Dudley O. Bookal ·
Toucan Publishing
ISBN 0-9731418-0-8
2004-1002
What is Man? is a treatise on
the Bible. It is also an affirmation, an eloquent testimony of Dudley
Bookal’s abiding belief in his religion and his God.
The
book deals with all aspects of the Bible, and covers the gamut of man’s
relationship with God, from creation to original sin and the eventual fall
of man. Bookal takes the words and terms used in Biblical times, and breaks
them down into simple, easy to understand language.
A
primer for Christians and non-Christians alike, What is Man? explains in a
simple manner, such subjects as God, creation, the soul, the spirit, the
tri-unity of man, hell and Satan. Quotations from the Bible are interspersed
throughout the book, in support of Bookal’s assertions.
In
addition to being an impassioned work on Christianity, and in the process of
strengthening the Creation Theory, What is Man? is an exposé of the
shortcomings of the Theory of Evolution. |
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I Like Learning to Read!
Anthony S. Phillander ·
Toucan Publishing
ISBN 0-9731418-3-2
2004-1001
I Like Learning to Read! is a
collection of 10 poems with themes that will appeal to children from
Kindergarten to Grade 4. An illustration accompanies each poem, in order to
bring out fully, the story behind the poem.
Anthony Shurland Phillander, a native of Trinidad and Tobago, is by
training, an electronic technician. He spends most of his spare time
pursuing his passion — poetry.
The
author is a member of the Organization Of Calypso Performing Artists,
Through The Seasons Literary Group and Toucan Publishing Inc. He and his
wife Lystra live in Toronto.
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GUYANA Population,
Environments, Economic Activities
Robert Ramraj, Ph.D
· Battleground Printing & Publishing
ISBN 0-97282925-3
2003-1014
Robert Ramraj was born in
Guyana (the grandchild of indentured labourers) and brought up in
Triumph, East Coast Demerara. He received his early education at
Beterverwagting Gov’t School after which he entered the teaching
profession. He taught at St. John the Baptist Anglican in Bartica,
Grove Gov’t, Lusignan Gov’t, Annandale Secondary and Mackenzie High
schools. After receiving degrees in Geography and Education from the
University of Guyana (UG), he continued his university education in
Canada (at Windsor) and the USA (at Eastern Michigan and
Wisconsin-Milwaukee). After lecturing at UG, he eventually obtained
a doctorate in Geography from Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His training in
Geography is very diverse. His post-doctoral university career
included teaching positions at Kutztown, Millersville, Winston-Salem
State (WSSU) and North Carolina-Greensboro in the USA. A trained and
experienced educator, he possesses Wisconsin Teacher Certification
and won the Bill Sheppard Master Teacher Award for Teaching
Excellence at WSSU. He currently lives in Winston-Salem, NC. |
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Cane Ripples - The Chinese
in Guyana
Trev Sue-A-Quan, Ph.D
· Cane Press
ISBN 0-9733557-1-9
2003-1013
CANE RIPPLES is a
collection of short stories describing the experiences of the
Chinese in British Guiana (now Guyana). Chinese were first procured
to work on the cane plantations, replacing the freed slaves of
African origin. Between 1853 and 1879 a total of 13,541 Chinese
immigrants were introduced to the colony. By the beginning of the
20th century only about 3,000 of Chinese ancestry remained. Even
though small in number — about two percent of the total population —
the Chinese made significant contributions and were recognized as
one of the six main ethnic groups that constitute Guyana’s people.
Vibert C. Cambridge,
Ph.D., writes: Dr. Trev Sue-A-Quan must be congratulated for
compiling this important book. Cane Ripples is more than a
collection of stories about the experiences of the Chinese diaspora
in Guyana. It uses oral histories, personal recollections,
photographs, and archival materials to illuminate an important
aspect of Guyana's complex history. . . Cane Ripples is an
integrated work that expresses the joy and pains experienced by a
vital sector of Guyanese society during the 20th century.
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Cane Reapers - Chinese
Indentured Immigrants in Guyana
Trev Sue-A-Quan, Ph.D
· Cane Press
ISBN 0-9733557-0-0
2003-1012
CANE REAPERS is the story about the Chinese who were procured
to replace the emancipated slaves on the sugar plantations of Guyana
(then British Guiana). Between 1853 and 1879 a total of 13,541
indentured labourers arrived from China but by 1900 the resident
Chinese population was down to 3,000. The tribulations and triumphs
of the Chinese immigrants reveal human nature in times of hardship
and alienation. In the process of assimilation into Western culture
some unique names have evolved for Chinese families, creating both a
mystery and a topic of fascination for their descendants and for
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The USA in South America and Other Essays
Cheddi Jagan · 1998 · Hansib Publishing Ltd
ISBN 1-870518-81-0
2003-1011
"The essays are very much a product of their time. Much has changed since they were written in ways that would have defied prediction, even of the most visionary. While they are a useful testament to history, they are also, like histories composed not as distant academic exercises but as the immediate cri de coeur of those in battle, full of optimism, far beyond any reasonable expectation, strangely insightful of what lies in the future. For example, not withstanding the darkness portrayed of the Reagan cold war era, Jagan found a ray of light opening up for a return to détente and peaceful co-existence. And, even more remarkable, saw at that time the convergence of such a potential world development together with the self alienation of PNC supporters, brought about by economic collapse and revolting electoral dishonesty, as providing the basis for change in Guyana. This is then history and prescience born out of whole-hearted dedication to social justice, and sharpened by frustration, anger and deep emotion."
Havelock Brewster
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Cheddi Jagan - Selected Speeches 1992 - 1994
Cheddi Jagan · 1995 · Hansib Publishing Ltd
ISBN 1-870518-49-7
2003-1010
This volume contains
recent
speeches by Guyanese President Cheddi Jagan, one of the world's outstanding political leaders. They testify to his integrity of vision and his eloquent concern for the potential as well as the plight of the Guyanese people. The crippling burden of foreign debt and its disturbing impact on human development is highlighted as are problems faced by the country after twenty-eight years of rule by the People's National Congress (PNC). What emerges finally is, above all, President Jagan's optimism regarding the future of his country and the wider Caribbean region; an optimism rooted in his perception of the potential of Caribbean peoples for survival, creativity and renewal.
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Price: US$13.85
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Forbidden Freedom, The Story of British Guiana
Cheddi Jagan · 3rd Edition, 1994 · Hansib Publishing Ltd
ISBN 1-870518-37-3
2003-1009
First
published
in 1954 Dr Jagan's 'Story of British Guiana' appeared in the aftermath of the military intervention that removed from office the democratically elected government of which hewas Premier. Dr Jagan showed how this fitted in to both the colonial policy of Britain and the 'Cold War' spearheaded by the United States. It includes an analysis of "Labour and the Colonies" and shows who are the genuine and who are the false democrats.
In the epilogue to this third edition Cheddi Jagan said: "Forty years after FORBIDDEN FREEDOM was written, I feel justified about the conclusion I made in another book, THE WEST ON TRIAL, where I said: 'The struggle will be Ion and hard. Sacrifices will be many. But history and time are on our side. An win we will'."
The new epilogue is the last chapter in this new edition of Cheddi Jagan's FORBIDDEN FREEDOM, but it is laden with ideas and plans for a new Guyana and its people.
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