Caribbean Beat — September/October 2018 (#153)

ADVERTORIAL
14 A Guyana reading list
Out of a rich cultural tradition, Guyanese literature is especially celebrated.
Where to start? Perhaps with The Guyana Quartet of Wilson Harris, who died
in early 2018 — Guyana’s most eminent (and some might say most mindboggling)
fiction writer, whose novels bring together elements of science
fiction, philosophy, and historical analysis in an unmistakable landscape
of forests and rivers. Or else with the poems of Martin Carter, Guyana’s
literary conscience, whose subjects ranged from anti-colonial politics to the
metaphysics of identity, and whose verses are imprinted in the memories of
many of his readers. Or seek out the books of Jan Carew, A.J. Seymour, Ian
McDonald (Trinidad-born, but Guyanese by adoption), Pauline Melville, Fred
D’Aguiar, Jan Shinebourne, David Dabydeen, Mahadai Das, Oonya
Kempadoo — the list is long, and growing.
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