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Book Synopsis Tales in the Guyanese Vernacular by : Barney Singh
Download or read book Tales in the Guyanese Vernacular written by Barney Singh and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of humorous short stories in the Guyanese Vernacular (Creolese) by master story teller, Barney Singh, has entertained Guyanese in the Toronto Area at various functions over the last thirty years. Available in print for the first time, these stories immediately transport the reader to Guyana. Readers dipping into this treasuary of short stories, can satisfy feelings of nostalgia for their homeland, Guyana, as they strive to show “what Guyana's sons and daughters can be” in environments bearing no resemblance to home as they knew it.
Book Synopsis Fables & Tales of Guyana by : Mrs Norma Jean
Download or read book Fables & Tales of Guyana written by Mrs Norma Jean and published by . This book was released on 2006-03-01 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is my second book on tales of the Caribbean and it was inspired by the first book that was so well loved. Fables and Tales are stories I have attempted to retell to the best of my memory for all the Caribbean and Guyanese/Canadian parents and grandparents to read to their little ones. It will enrich your relationship with them and help them to understand you even better and cherish these memories.
Book Synopsis Short and Sweet by : Robert J. Fernandes
Download or read book Short and Sweet written by Robert J. Fernandes and published by Hansib Publishing (Caribbean), Limited. This book was released on 2008 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of 25 short stories and fables that chronicle a way of life that is unmistakably Guyanese. Well-known Guyanese adventurer Fernandes writes from life experience, providing a fascinating snapshot of the Guyanese way of life. His characters range from lost tribes to porknocker wives; from Leroy the laxative man to Ma Bancroft the gun-toting old lady. The fables are a product of his imagination, and examine the lives of rainbows, raindrops, old dogs, snail hawks and trees from a refreshingly Guyanese perspective.
Book Synopsis Fables & Tales of Guyana by : Norma Jean
Download or read book Fables & Tales of Guyana written by Norma Jean and published by . This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fables and Tales are stories I have attempted to retell to the best of my memory for all the Caribbean and Guyanese/ Canadian parents and grandparents to read to their little ones. It will enrich your relationship with them and help them to understand you even better and cherish these memories.
Book Synopsis Guyana Stories & Passages by : Hanif Gulmahamad
Download or read book Guyana Stories & Passages written by Hanif Gulmahamad and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-08-19 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains twenty two stories, a list of Guyanese creole proverbs, and twelve passages. It is written by Dr. Hanif Gulmahamad, BCE, a scholar, scientist, poet, and writer who is an American of Guyanese descent. He left Guyana for the first time on May 29, 1968 to seek higher education in the United States of America. He returned in 1976 and spent two years lecturing in the Department of Biology, University of Guyana, Turkeyen. He left the country again in December 1977 and returned to southern California. This book, like the others he has written, attempts to preserve for posterity a record of what life was like back in the old days in the motherland. His generation is rapidly moving on to the hereafter and he felt an obligation to tell these stories so that they can be secured for future generations.
Download or read book Guyana Legends written by Odeen Ishmael and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-08-30 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guyana Legends—Folk Tales of the Indigenous Amerindians By Odeen Ishmael G uyana Legends—Folk Tales of the Indigenous Amerindians is a collection of fifty folk tales of the first people to inhabit Guyana and the contiguous regions of the north coast of the South American continent. Very little is known of Amerindian history in Guyana before the arrival of European settlers in the early seventeenth century and, actually, no written form of their languages existed until about seventy years ago. Indeed, much of the history of the Amerindians people is based on oral traditions which are not quite clear because the periods when important events occurred are difficult to place. Still, native oral traditions are very rich in folk stories of the ancestral heroes and heroines of these indigenous people. Some of these folk stories have varying versions among the nine different language groups—or tribes— that comprise the Amerindian population of Guyana. Such a difference is illustrated in this book which presents two different tales of how fire was acquired and various versions of the legend of two immortal folk heroes, the bothers Makonaima and Pia. This present collection of Amerindian legends was compiled over a lengthy period of many years during which I listened to and collected versions of these tales from elderly Amerindians in various regions of Guyana, and more recently from Amerindian residents of the Delta Amacuro region of Venezuela, on the frontier with Guyana. Significantly, most of these legends were also summarised since the late nineteenth century by a succession of writers, including Everard F. im Thurn, W.H. Brett, Walter Roth and Leonard Lambert. But it is significant to note that those versions—by no means original—which were related by those writers of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries have undergone some changes with the passing years, and new characters have been added to them. Since Amerindians of the North West District of Guyana are ethnologically and culturally related to those in the eastern regions of Venezuela, particularly the Delta Amacuro region, it is noteworthy that the myths and legends of those Venezuelan Amerindians bear close similarities to those of their Guyanese counterparts. Interestingly, the Guajiro people—Amerindians of Arawak background living in north-west Venezuela near to Lake Maracaibo—also have some folk-tales that closely resemble those of their “relatives” living in the North-West District of Guyana and the Delta Amacuro region of Venezuela. For further information, the writings of Venezuelan researchers, Cesaréo de Armellada, Maria Manuela de Cora and Michel Perrin are recommended. It is essential to note too that an important character in Amerindian legend is “Tiger”. While there are a number of tigers in the stories—and generally they are all villains—these animals, however, are not part of the fauna in Guyana or the entire American continent. What is generally referred to as a “tiger” is the large spotted jaguar. And the “black tiger”, mentioned in one of the stories in this book, is the large South American puma. Twenty of the folk tales included in this collection appear in my earlier book, Amerindian Legends of Guyana, published in 1995. However, they have now been revised and, in some cases, retitled. Among the thirty other stories are those of two clever tricksters in Amerindian folklore, the lazy but sly Konehu and the wily rabbit, Koneso. Readers will find these legends of the original inhabitants of Guyana informative in the anthropological sense, in addition to being interesting and entertaining at the same time.
Book Synopsis Vernaculars in the Classroom by : Shondel Nero
Download or read book Vernaculars in the Classroom written by Shondel Nero and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-20 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book draws on applied linguistics and literary studies to offer concrete means of engaging with vernacular language and literature in secondary and college classrooms. The authors embrace a language-as-resource orientation, countering the popular narrative of vernaculars as problems in schools. The book is divided into two parts, with the first half of the book providing linguistic and pedagogical background, and the second half offering literary case studies for teaching. Part I examines the historical and continued devaluing of vernaculars in schools, incorporating clear, usable explanations of relevant theories. This section also outlines the central myths and paradoxes surrounding vernacular languages and literatures, includes productive ways for teachers to address those myths and paradoxes, and explores challenges and possibilities for vernacular language pedagogy. In Part II, the authors provide pedagogical case studies using literary texts written in vernacular Englishes from around the world. Each chapter examines a vernacular-related topic, and concludes with discussion questions and writing assignments; an appendix contains the poems and short stories discussed, and other teaching resources. The book provides a model of interdisciplinary inquiry that can be beneficial to scholars and practitioners in composition, literature, and applied linguistics, as well as students of all linguistic backgrounds.
Book Synopsis Stories from Guyana by : Rudy A. S. Gafur
Download or read book Stories from Guyana written by Rudy A. S. Gafur and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Tales, Tunes, and Tassa Drums by : Peter Manuel
Download or read book Tales, Tunes, and Tassa Drums written by Peter Manuel and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2015-01-30 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today's popular tassa drumming emerged from the fragments of transplanted Indian music traditions half-forgotten and creatively recombined, rearticulated, and elaborated into a dynamic musical genre. A uniquely Indo-Trinidadian form, tassa drumming invites exploration of how the distinctive nature of the Indian diaspora and its relationship to its ancestral homeland influenced Indo-Caribbean music culture. Music scholar Peter Manuel traces the roots of neotraditional music genres like tassa drumming to North India and reveals the ways these genres represent survivals, departures, or innovative elaborations of transplanted music forms. Drawing on ethnographic work and a rich archive of field recordings, he contemplates the music carried to Trinidad by Bhojpuri-speaking and other immigrants, including forms that died out in India but continued to thrive in the Caribbean. His reassessment of ideas of creolization, retention, and cultural survival defies suggestions that the diaspora experience inevitably leads to the loss of the original culture, while also providing avenues to broader applications for work being done in other ethnic contexts.
Download or read book Guyana written by Frances Chambers and published by Oxford : Clio Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Wah Dih Story Seh? by : Pauline Baird
Download or read book Wah Dih Story Seh? written by Pauline Baird and published by . This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you tell and (re)tell stories you grew up hearing? Do your children tune you out when you tell those "ole time stories"? Do they ask more questions than you can answer, especially if you live in the diaspora? If this is your story, this book is for you. Take a journey with Uncle Edwin and Marlon (in Guyana), Kay (in New York), Dee (in Antigua), and Prince Fuareke from the book series "Africa For Smart Kids" (in Cameroon). Dear reader, the conversation they make is yours to take off these pages into the world at the prompting of the ubiquitous Waddy the Water Frog. Let's get talking!
Download or read book Walk Wit’ Me... written by Helena Martin and published by BalboaPress. This book was released on 2011-12-16 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My memoir is laced with nostalgia and at the same time it is my sincere intention to portray the true essence of the Guyanese culture without offence. Keep in mind that this is not based on the experience of every Guyanese. This was the way I saw and experienced things back then. The use of colloquialism is of utmost importance; it is the vernacular we understand. It may sound like another language so unless you were born and bred in Guyana you will need to refer to the glossary provided. Folklore and mothers preaching life lessons through proverbs played a large part in Guyanese life. This is not only an account of the first twenty-one years of my life in Guyana; it also contains anecdotes of visits back to my homeland. You will also find a sprinkling of information pertaining to my new life in Australia. Before immigrating to Australia I believed the sun only rose and set in Guyana; I never imagined another paradise existed on the planet. There is a saying that most Guyanese use to identify their roots after they have voluntarily immigrated or simply fled to another country. When we say, My navel string is buried in Guyana, we simply mean: My roots are there. Its a place where true and enduring friendships were formed forever. We will meet one another decades later and feel as if it was yesterday, reminiscing about our beloved land; lapsing into the language only a fellow Guyanese can understand. A famous Australian crooner said I still call Australia home, and I can assure you that saying applies to Guyanese who have immigrated to every corner of the globe. Navigating the labyrinth of family secrets was my one mission in life; I just had to know.
Download or read book Coolie Woman written by Gaiutra Bahadur and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize: “[Bahadur] combines her journalistic eye for detail and story-telling gifts with probing questions . . . a haunting portrait.” —The Independent In 1903, a young woman sailed from India to Guiana as a “coolie” —the British name for indentured laborers who replaced the newly emancipated slaves on sugar plantations all around the world. Pregnant and traveling alone, this woman, like so many coolies, disappeared into history. Now, in Coolie Woman, her great-granddaughter embarks on a journey into the past to find her. Traversing three continents and trawling through countless colonial archives, Gaiutra Bahadur excavates not only her great-grandmother’s story but also the repressed history of some quarter of a million other coolie women, shining a light on their complex lives. Shunned by society, and sometimes in mortal danger, many coolie women were runaways, widows, or outcasts. Many left husbands and families behind to migrate alone in epic sea voyages—traumatic “middle passages” —only to face a life of hard labor, dismal living conditions, and, especially, sexual exploitation. As Bahadur explains, however, it is precisely their sexuality that makes coolie women stand out as figures in history. Greatly outnumbered by men, they were able to use sex with their overseers to gain various advantages, an act that often incited fatal retaliations from coolie men and sometimes larger uprisings of laborers against their overlords. Complex and unpredictable, sex was nevertheless a powerful tool. Examining this and many other facets of these remarkable women’s lives, Coolie Woman is a meditation on survival, a gripping story of a double diaspora—from India to the West Indies in one century, Guyana to the United States in the next—that is at once a search for roots and an exploration of gender and power, peril and opportunity.
Book Synopsis Constructing Vernacular Culture in the Trans-Caribbean by : Holger Henke
Download or read book Constructing Vernacular Culture in the Trans-Caribbean written by Holger Henke and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Constructing Vernacular Culture in the Trans-Caribbean traces the contradictory cultural trajectories constructed and re-produced in the fluid diasporic spaces we call the Trans-Caribbean. Particular emphasis is placed on such cultural expressions that reflect or derive from the cultural vernacular and popular culture as it exists in these spaces. Its multidisciplinary approach and focus on different language areas in the Trans-Caribbean are of particular interest to scholars in cultural studies, migration, literary theory, and cultural criticism.
Book Synopsis Creole Genesis, Attitudes and Discourse by : John R. Rickford
Download or read book Creole Genesis, Attitudes and Discourse written by John R. Rickford and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection in honor of creolist Charlene Junko Sato (1951-1996) brings together contributions by leading specialists in pidgin-creole studies in three primary areas: Pidgin-Creole Genesis and Development; Attitudes and Education, and Creole Discourse and Literature. The varieties covered come from English, French and Spanish lexical bases and from places as far apart as Africa, Australia, Hawaii, and the Caribbean. Editors Rickford and Romaine introduce each of the papers and provide a biography and bibliography of Sato. A short story and poems in Hawaiian Creole, Sato's native language and the variety which was the focus of her research and writing, round out the collection.
Book Synopsis Urban Bahamian Creole by : Stephanie Hackert
Download or read book Urban Bahamian Creole written by Stephanie Hackert and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2004-07-29 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, a detailed empirical study of the creole English spoken in the Bahamian capital, Nassau, contributes to our understanding of both urban creoles and tense-aspect marking in creoles. The first part traces the development of a creole in the Bahamas via socio-demographic data and outlines its current status and functions vis-à-vis the standard in politics, the media, and education. The linguistic chapters combine typological and variationist methods to describe exhaustively a comprehensive grammatical subsystem, past temporal reference, offering a discourse-based approach to such controversial categories as the preverbal past marker. The quantitative analysis of variable past inflection, finally, tests not only well-known constraints, such as stativity or social class, but also ethnographically determined ones, such as narrative type. Its results are relevant not only to the study of Caribbean English-lexifier creoles and related varieties, such as African American English, but also to variation and change in urban dialects generally.
Book Synopsis The Syntax of Nonsententials by : Ljiljana Progovac
Download or read book The Syntax of Nonsententials written by Ljiljana Progovac and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings the data that many in formal linguistics have dismissed as peripheral straight into the core of syntactic theory. By bringing together experts from syntax, semantics, pragmatics, philosophy of language, language acquisition, aphasia, and pidgin and creole studies, the volume makes a multidisciplinary case for the existence of nonsententials, which are analyzed in various chapters as root phrases and small clauses (Me; Me First!; Him worry?!; Class in session), and whose distinguishing property is the absence of Tense, and, with it, any syntactic phenomena that rely on Tense, including structural Nominative Case. Arguably, the lack of Tense specification is also responsible for the dearth of indicative interpretations among nonsententials, as well as for their heavy reliance on pragmatic context. So pervasive is nonsentential speech across all groups, including normal adult speech, that a case can be made that continuity of grammar lies in nonsentential, rather than sentential speech.
