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Book Synopsis Memories and Reflections of Life in Guyana by : Norma Jean
Download or read book Memories and Reflections of Life in Guyana written by Norma Jean and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memories and reflections is exactly what the title says. I recall the memories of the Masquerade at Holiday times like Christmas, the clothes hanging on the line, the Cane starting to burn or the friends who could not come out to play as they were pounding plantain for Foo fu. I even recall the big nipples that were the shape of a hat on a coke bottle full of porridge for the baby and many more of our childhood memories and reflections. Even if you aren't from Guyana, or any other poor country, you will be able to see how we really did have some great fun even with the little that we had in the stories I am happy to share with you here.
Book Synopsis Guyana Memories by : Dr. Hanif Gulmahamad
Download or read book Guyana Memories written by Dr. Hanif Gulmahamad and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-12-19 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains 15 stories and 48 poems. Four of the stories are works of fiction. Some of the stories, for example, Life on a sugar plantation in colonial Guyana, contain a lot of information of historical significance that has previously been unrecorded and could well be lost in the passage of time. I was born in 1945 on Springlands Sugar Estate where we lived in a small cottage in the estate compound behind and west of the District Commissioners Office building. The story about life on a British colonial sugar plantation is drawn from personal experience and it is told in the voice of someone who actually lived that life. The story entitled: Going to America represents todays reality of Guyanese who have left, leaving, or trying to leave Guyana. The expatriate Guyanese community, particularly in North America, should certainly be able to relate to that experience. Many of my compatriots were forced to undergo a second traumatic deracination for economic and political reasons, lack of opportunity in the homeland, no jobs, no viable future, and other reasons, when they emigrated to Britain, United States of America, Canada, the West Indies, and other places. The ancestors of Afro-Guyanese were dragged out of Africa and brought to the New World as slaves. The forefathers of Indo-Guyanese were lured to British Guiana by deception and false promises and became bound coolies trapped in a form of indentured servitude that some regard as another form of slavery. The second Guyanese uprooting and displacement, though done largely voluntarily, was no less disruptive, frightening, emotionally turbulent, and difficult than the first one either from Africa or India. Life for these people in a new land, very often in hostile climatic conditions quite unlike the tropical conditions in the homeland, was difficult, harrowing, stressful, tumultuous, psychologically traumatic, and distressing for new emigrants. The history of the Guyanese people is written in blood, sweat, tears, suffering, and misery. The children of the new Guyanese diaspora will subsequently have their own story to tell about life in an alien land. It has been said that it is easy for the poor to escape from a poor nation but it is not so easy for them to escape poverty in a rich nation. Emigrants, particularly those of an older generation, who are set in their ways, often experience extreme difficulties acculturating and assimilating into a different society and adjusting to an alien way of life. They are often relegated to a shadowy existence in the marginalized immigrant community standing on the periphery of an alien culture looking in and experiencing loneliness, hopelessness, helplessness, and lacking a sense of belonging. Refer to the poem in this book entitled: Living in a place where you were not born for some insights on this issue. Stories such as: Hunting birds with slingshots in Guyana, Making and flying kites in Guyana, Catching mullet at No. 73 waterside, Notorious fowl thieves of the village, and When you really know it was Christmas time, can elicit strong nostalgia and sentimental memories of youthful experiences so pleasurable and engrossing that it could cause you to yearn for a past life that was simple, care-free, full of wonderful remembrances and recollections. When I think of the wonderful life I once lived at Clonbrook, I am a young lad all over again and I am happy. Those who lived that life and had fond memories of it should certainly share these stories with their children and grandchildren. Make these stories more real and fascinating by adding your own memories and experiences as you read them to your descendants. After all, everybody has a story to tell. There are forty eight poems in this compilation that are sure to evoke emotions and nostalgia. Many deal with subject matters pertaining to the Corentyne. The reason for that is simple. I was born and raised in the Upper Corentyne and I hold lots of treasured an
Book Synopsis MY REFLECTIONS of HOMEThe Cooperative Republic of Guyana by : Rex Anthony Lucas
Download or read book MY REFLECTIONS of HOMEThe Cooperative Republic of Guyana written by Rex Anthony Lucas and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I am a Guyanese who migrated to the United States in 1984. This book outlines my memories, hopes and dreams as a Guyanese living overseas and who has been fortunate to have been back to Guyana many times.
Book Synopsis Guyana Memories by : Hanif Gulmahamad
Download or read book Guyana Memories written by Hanif Gulmahamad and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-12 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains 15 stories and 48 poems. Four of the stories are works of fiction. Some of the stories, for example, Life on a sugar plantation in colonial Guyana, contain a lot of information of historical significance that has previously been unrecorded and could well be lost in the passage of time. I was born in 1945 on Springlands Sugar Estate where we lived in a small cottage in the estate compound behind and west of the District Commissioner's Office building. The story about life on a British colonial sugar plantation is drawn from personal experience and it is told in the voice of someone who actually lived that life. The story entitled: Going to America represents today's reality of Guyanese who have left, leaving, or trying to leave Guyana. The expatriate Guyanese community, particularly in North America, should certainly be able to relate to that experience. Many of my compatriots were forced to undergo a second traumatic deracination for economic and political reasons, lack of opportunity in the homeland, no jobs, no viable future, and other reasons, when they emigrated to Britain, United States of America, Canada, the West Indies, and other places. The ancestors of Afro-Guyanese were dragged out of Africa and brought to the New World as slaves. The forefathers of Indo-Guyanese were lured to British Guiana by deception and false promises and became "bound coolies" trapped in a form of indentured servitude that some regard as another form of slavery. The second Guyanese uprooting and displacement, though done largely voluntarily, was no less disruptive, frightening, emotionally turbulent, and difficult than the first one either from Africa or India. Life for these people in a new land, very often in hostile climatic conditions quite unlike the tropical conditions in the homeland, was difficult, harrowing, stressful, tumultuous, psychologically traumatic, and distressing for new emigrants. The history of the Guyanese people is written in blood, sweat, tears, suffering, and misery. The children of the new Guyanese diaspora will subsequently have their own story to tell about life in an alien land. It has been said that it is easy for the poor to escape from a poor nation but it is not so easy for them to escape poverty in a rich nation. Emigrants, particularly those of an older generation, who are set in their ways, often experience extreme difficulties acculturating and assimilating into a different society and adjusting to an alien way of life. They are often relegated to a shadowy existence in the marginalized immigrant community standing on the periphery of an alien culture looking in and experiencing loneliness, hopelessness, helplessness, and lacking a sense of belonging. Refer to the poem in this book entitled: Living in a place where you were not born for some insights on this issue. Stories such as: Hunting birds with slingshots in Guyana, Making and flying kites in Guyana, Catching mullet at No. 73 waterside, Notorious fowl thieves of the village, and When you really know it was Christmas time, can elicit strong nostalgia and sentimental memories of youthful experiences so pleasurable and engrossing that it could cause you to yearn for a past life that was simple, care-free, full of wonderful remembrances and recollections. When I think of the wonderful life I once lived at Clonbrook, I am a young lad all over again and I am happy. Those who lived that life and had fond memories of it should certainly share these stories with their children and grandchildren. Make these stories more real and fascinating by adding your own memories and experiences as you read them to your descendants. After all, everybody has a story to tell. There are forty eight poems in this compilation that are sure to evoke emotions and nostalgia. Many deal with subject matters pertaining to the Corentyne. The reason for that is simple. I was born and raised in the Upper Corentyne and I hold lots of treasured an
Book Synopsis Bauxite, Sugar and Mud by : Patricia Wendy Dathan
Download or read book Bauxite, Sugar and Mud written by Patricia Wendy Dathan and published by Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec : Shoreline. This book was released on 2006 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living in a Canadian bauxite-mining camp surrounded by tropical rainforest, a small group of Northeners do their best to cope cheerfully with heat, snakes, wartime restrictions, and tragedies.
Download or read book Walk About written by Rory I. Jagdeo and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-28 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rory I. Jagdeo lost his brother Steve to COVID-19 and was inspired to write this story of leaving Guyana at almost twenty years old, boarding an airplane for the first time to Toronto, Canada. It was an unlikely journey for a man with such humble beginnings—a man whose great-grandparents were taken from India to work on a sugar plantation as indentured servants in the late 1800s. In this autobiography, he looks back at his boyhood and adolescence growing up in a village called Fyrish on the Northeastern coast of Guyana, a country on South America’s North Atlantic coast and how life changed when he went to college in Toronto. From there, he highlights his life’s challenges, pleasures, and close calls. While his life has been challenging, he has never given up. With hard work, he has followed destiny’s path and explored the pleasures of life. From his life as a musician and recording artist, to his adventures traveling, to his romantic exploits and time as a caregiver, the author celebrates his incredible life.
Book Synopsis Stains on My Name, War in My Veins by : Brackette F. Williams
Download or read book Stains on My Name, War in My Veins written by Brackette F. Williams and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1991-04-12 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Burdened with a heritage of both Spanish and British colonization and imperialism, Guyana is today caught between its colonial past, its efforts to achieve the consciousness of nationhood, and the need of its diverse subgroups to maintain their own identity. Stains on My Name, War in My Veins chronicles the complex struggles of the citizens of Guyana to form a unified national culture against the pulls of ethnic, religious, and class identities. Drawing on oral histories and a close study of daily life in rural Guyana, Brackette E. Williams examines how and why individuals and groups in their quest for recognition as a “nation” reproduce ethnic chauvinism, racial stereotyping, and religious bigotry. By placing her ethnographic study in a broader historical context, the author develops a theoretical understanding of the relations among various dimensions of personal identity in the process of nation building.
Book Synopsis Stories & Poems by a Guyanese Village Boy by : Hanif Gulmahamad
Download or read book Stories & Poems by a Guyanese Village Boy written by Hanif Gulmahamad and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-02 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book Description This book is a compilation of 27 short stories and 17 poems written by Dr. Hanif Gulmahamad who was born in 1945 on Springlands Sugar Estate, Corentyne, Berbice in what was then the colonial territory of British Guiana. The stories in this book are based on real incidences and events that took place in the 1950's and early 1960's while the author was a young lad residing at No. 73 Village, Corentyne, Berbice, Guyana. The characters mentioned in the stories were real people though most of them are probably now deceased. This book was written in 2008 and it is based on the author's best recollections of events which occurred over 45 years ago. Due to the fact that four and a half decades elapsed between the actual occurrence of these events and the time they were written, these stories may not be completely accurate. It is not the intention of the author to portray anyone in these stories in a negative light. Real names were mentioned in the stories in an attempt to be as pragmatic as possible. Great consideration, effort, and time were expended in order to keep these stories as realistic and accurate as possible. The 1950's and 1960's was an idyllic and carefree time for a young lad growing up in a far away village in British Guiana. The country was still under colonial rule at that time and there were laws and rules and there was the rule of law. It was a safe and secure place to grow up as a young boy. Most people in the villages were poor but there were ample opportunities to hunt, fish, farm, and eke out a living. For a lad of my age at the time, every day was an adventure. All you had to do was walk across the road and enter the farmlands and an adventure began. Life was simple and even though people worked hard for a living they were, for the most part, a happy lot. Wealth and material possessions were not necessary ingredients for a happy and fulfilling life. People accepted their lot in life and did not aspire to unachievable ideals and goals. You made do with what you had and you were grateful for what little you had. The stories in this book cover a wide variety of events and situations some of which are humorous. Children in Guyana, particularly those who live away from the cities, will find these stories fascinating. It is the author's hope that children in Guyana, who can most relate to these stories, are afforded an opportunity to read this book. Back in the day when the author was a young boy in Guiana, books were very scarce commodities and anything and everything in print were read with great relish. Books told the author things and took him places he could only imagine at the time. In those days there were only two radio stations in the entire country and there was no television. Two movies theatres were located at Skeldon and the cost of one shilling to attend a movie there was often cost prohibitive to many people. The events in these stories were set in a place and time that is now gone and most probably lost forever. One of the major goals of the author was to record these stories for posterity. The poems in this book cover diverse times, topics, and places. The author currently lives in southern California and works in Los Angeles. Some of these poems reflect great nostalgia and longing for a life, place, and time that is gone. For example, the poems, I am not from here, I still have my memories, and it was supposed to be a temporary thing, convey great yearning for what the author perceives as things that he has lost having left Guyana and migrated to the United States. The contents of this book cast some light on the author's life story which is a remarkable one. Born to functionally illiterate parents on a British sugar plantation in a faraway place in Guyana, the author went on to obtain a PhD degree from the University of California, Riverside. He has written and published over 60 technical and scientific papers including two chapters in books. It is important
Book Synopsis Five Months of Agony by : Elber Oreste Borrego Almaguer
Download or read book Five Months of Agony written by Elber Oreste Borrego Almaguer and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-08-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book captures most poignantly a time in Guyana's history when most Guyanese, and even people around the world, viewed the country's future with trepidation. Many persons were anxious about what lay ahead after the 2020 General Elections and the subsequent prolonged process to determine which political party would govern the country. To Dr. Elber Borrego Almaguer, the author of this book, those chaotic months of uncertainty mirrored his personal life and all the challenges facing him, including an imminent divorce! A Cuban Guyanese, Dr. Borrego fell in love with this country even before he set foot here thanks to the love and patriotism of a Guyanese girl that had stolen his heart in Cuba! Our good Doctor was so smitten by his Guyanese love that he gave his all to make her happy while they both studied medicine in his homeland where, like her own country, life was no bed of roses. He tells us, quite candidly, about the hardships Cubans have faced over the years under an oppressive administration. Yet still, he was ill prepared for the roller coaster ride that he had unknowingly embarked on when he landed on these shores. However, Dr. Borrego heeded that ancient proverb that exhorts one to make lemonade if given lemons! The result is the book you're holding in your hands. Herein you will find the story of his life back in Cuba, then here in Guyana...captured after months of love, misunderstandings, disappointments, and anguish. A down to earth, caring, and sincere person, Dr. Borrego weaves an interesting tale of his love and all the highs associated with same, and then the subsequent lows as he fought to find his way in a strange land where political turmoil threatened to erode its peace and tranquility. There was the unprecedented elections, the likes of which he had never seen, his personal battle to gain financial independence and to save his marriage that was swiftly headed for the rocks. "Five Months of Agony" is a gripping story of love, loss, financial struggles, then ultimate triumph set in a beautiful oil-rich country that veered precariously close to self-destruction.
Book Synopsis A Life in Guyana: The later years, 1923-1935 by : Vincent Roth
Download or read book A Life in Guyana: The later years, 1923-1935 written by Vincent Roth and published by Peepal Tree Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the second volume of Vincent Roth's Guyana memoirs, Vincent is a mature adult who is very sure of himself and bound to his adopted country. Roth's memoirs, while revealing colonial petty-minded bureaucracy, jumped-up officialdom, and incompetence, nevertheless present a picture of a country that worked, where the mail reached the remotest parts of the interior, but where the obliterating power of nature over human effort had to be constantly resisted.
Book Synopsis Shaping Memories by : Joanne V. Gabbin
Download or read book Shaping Memories written by Joanne V. Gabbin and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2009 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology offers short chapters by notable black women writers on pivotal moments that strongly influenced their careers. It provides a thorough overview of the formal concerns and thematic issues facing contemporary black women writers, and includes an introduction that places these writers in the context of American literature in general and African American literature in particular.
Download or read book Reflections written by Paris Singh and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-26 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In brief, Reflections is a collection of nostalgic essays and sketches, wide-ranging in scope, most of which I wrote during my retirement. I tried to provide little vignettes or snapshots of life in the villages and sugar estates of colonial Guyana. I looked back at the social and recreational activities, the Primary School education, and the unique holiday celebrations in the colonial times. Included are reminiscences on teachers of my alumni school, Corentyne High in Guyana, and on teachers of Bryant High, Queens, New York, where I had taught. Shakespeare, whose plays I have greatly admired and enjoyed teaching, receives a glowing tribute on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of his death. Some of the articles look back elegiacally at some of the most treasured things that have fallen victim to progress, for example, the single-screen cinemas, the comics "Classics Illustrated", and the classis All-steel Raleigh Bicycles. -------------- PARIS SINGH was born in Rose Hall Estate, Canje, British Guiana, in 1943. After Primary School at St. Patrick's in Rose Hall, Canje, he moved with his family to Hampshire and attended Corentyne High School, where he graduated in 1962. He taught English, Latin and French there. Then he went to Canada and read Honors English, with a Minor in Latin, at McMaster University, and graduated in 1977. He did his M.A. (English) there in 1978, and his M. Phil. in Renaissance Literature at the University of Waterloo (1979). He went on to specialize in the Renaissance, with emphasis on Milton and Shakespeare, at the University of Ottawa. In New York, Paris taught College-Now English, sponsored by La Guardia College, and English and Latin at Bryant High in Astoria. After forty-two years of teaching, he retired in 2009. He has an enduring interest in Classics, French and History; philately and fencing. He was Fencing Master at Bryant, and won several medals at the New York Empire State Games.
Download or read book Reflections written by Pooran Dyalram and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-09-27 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Reflections" is a series of humorous poems, yet factual in many ways, that captures the historical and cultural aspects of Guyana, a small and beautiful country on the north eastern coastline of South America. While this anthology is primarily based on the experiences of the author living in his homeland, and now in the USA, there is something in it which every Guyanese can relate to, and pass on to their children. Written in simple language and sometimes with a tinge of creole, it is also intended that readers of other cultures learn and appreciate our history, customs and beliefs.
Book Synopsis Reflections of Guyana by : Fenton Bravid Sands
Download or read book Reflections of Guyana written by Fenton Bravid Sands and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Life in Guyana: A young man's journey, 1889-1923 by : Vincent Roth
Download or read book A Life in Guyana: A young man's journey, 1889-1923 written by Vincent Roth and published by Peepal Tree Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As an eighteen year old, Vincent Roth arrived in British Guiana in 1907 to join his father, who was a Government Medical Officer and Magistrate. By the time he left for Barbados in 1964, Roth had spent thirty years in the interior working as a surveyor and magistrate until blackwater fever nearly killed him. Thereafter he contributed immensely to the development of Guyana as a journalist, naturalist, historian, rebuilder of the national museum and founder of the zoo in the Botanical Gardens. From an early age Vincent Roth kept a detailed, account of his experiences, often illustrated with sketches and later by watercolours, and it was from these hand-written journals that his son-in-law, Michael Bennett, edited this book. This first volume covers his early years as a child abandoned to relatives in France, Scotland and London, his reuniting at the age of twelve with his father and step-mother in Australia, his arrival in British Guiana and the first fifteen years of his work in the interior. Blessed with insatiable curiosity, a capacious and exacting memory, Vincent Roth writes vividly of surveying expeditions up the Demerara River, in the North West District, to Arakaka, Morawhanna and Moruca. There are gripping descriptions of the hazards of river travel, hauling up waterfalls and shooting rapids, and the outsize characters of the river captains such as Captain Blood, and their skill and daring. There are fascinating accounts of the peoples of the interior, the Amerindians, the porkknockers, balata bleeders, gold miners, coffee growers and smugglers. Read Roth and you'll know how to pan for gold and diamonds! Deadly snakes, tiger-cats, sloths, water-dogs, hairy bird-eating spiders, rampaging wild hogs and birds of all descriptions provide Roth with moments of wonder, alarm, food - and (as a enthusiastic taxidermist) specimens to stuff. In this volume Roth grows from callow youth to energetic and opinionated manhood, constantly getting under the skin of petty-minded colonial officials - and developing a deep, though sometimes exasperated, love for Guyana. Between 1907 and 1964, Vincent Roth contributed immensely to the development of Guyana, first as a surveyor in the interior, then as a journalist, historian and naturalist.
Book Synopsis Musical Life in Guyana by : Vibert C. Cambridge
Download or read book Musical Life in Guyana written by Vibert C. Cambridge and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2015-05-21 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Musical Life in Guyana is the first in-depth study of Guyanese musical life. It is also a richly detailed description of the social, economic, and political conditions that have encouraged and sometimes discouraged musical and cultural creativity in Guyana. The book contributes to the study of the interactions between the policies and practices by national governments and musical communities in the Caribbean. Vibert C. Cambridge explores these interactions in Guyana during the three political eras that the society experienced as it moved from being a British colony to an independent nation. The first era to be considered is the period of mature colonial governance, guided by the dictates of “new imperialism,” which extended from 1900 to 1953. The second era, the period of internal self-government and the preparation for independence, extends from 1953, the year of the first general elections under universal adult suffrage, to 1966, the year when the colony gained its political independence. The third phase, 1966 to 2000, describes the early postcolonial era. Cambridge reveals how the issues of race, class, gender, and ideology deeply influenced who in Guyanese multicultural society obtained access to musical instruction and media outlets and thus who received recognition. He also describes the close connections between Guyanese musicians and Caribbean artists from throughout the region and traces the exodus of Guyanese musicians to the great cities of the world, a theme often neglected in Caribbean studies. The book concludes that the practices of governance across the twentieth century exerted disproportionate influence in the creation, production, distribution, and consumption of music.
Book Synopsis The Heart of the Sun by : Jag B. Mahadeo
Download or read book The Heart of the Sun written by Jag B. Mahadeo and published by . This book was released on 2011-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amid the political turmoil of a dictatorial regime in Guyana, South America, a young boy struggles to grow up and endure the nightly attacks against his own home and village. Growing up, he was influenced by several pillars of the community. In this book he describes his real life experiences of growing up in this atmosphere during these challenging times. It is a book of narratives and stories based on historical facts, personal ideas and experiences. The few poems within are about life and life's experiences through his eyes and experiences of others.
