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David Dabydeen
Set in nineteenth Century Guyana, this novel follows the lives of Indian indentured labourers as they encounter the truths about their abandoned condition. It narrates the experiences of an Indian…
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Talks about the narrator, who is twelve when he leaves his village in Guyana to come to England, where he is abandoned by his father into social care, but later…
David Dabydeen’s ‘Turner’ is a long narrative poem written in response to J.M.W. Turner’s celebrated painting Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead & Dying. Dabydeen’s poem focuses on what is hidden…
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Winner of the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, this work presents one of the important collections of Caribbean/Black British poetry. It contains the voices of African slaves and Indian labourers expressing, in…
Set in the British town of Coventry in the early 1990s, this novel centers on Lance Yardley, a drama critic for a local newspaper. Only 30-years-old, he is already a…
An historical adventure through London and the sugar-cane colony of Demerara, British Guyana. David Dabydeen takes inspiration from the art of Hogarth and its dens of iniquity: we meet slaves…
Talks about a Guyanese engineer working on a cliff reclamation project in rural Kent. This novel contains intertextual play with Conrad, Wilson Harris and V S Naipaul, and investigates the…
This tale reinvents William Hogarth’s famous painting of 1732 which tells the story of a whore, a Jewish merchant, a magistrate and a quack doctor, bound together by sexual and…
Abigail Ward
This book focuses on representations of slavery in the works of contemporary British authors Caryl Phillips, David Dabydeen and Fred D'Aguiar, specifically exploring how racial anxieties in twenty-first century Britain…
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Extracts from the work of 19 Afro-British, Black American, and Caribbean writers who spent time in Britain during the period. They are drawn from autobiographies, slave narratives, unpublished letters, oral…
Dilek Bulut Sar?kaya
Having emerged from a struggle to give voice to marginalized groups in Britain, the poetry of Linton Kwesi Johnson, David Dabydeen, and Fred D'Aguiar helped define national identity and explored…
Yesu Persaud
In Volume One of his memoirs, Dr Yesu Persaud wrote movingly about his family and their struggles both during and after the abolition of the indentureship system that had first…
The history and legacy of Indian and Chinese Caribbean indentured labourers who were part of the Windrush generation
Presents a collection of articles which provides an overview of the black presence in Britain, and the diverse contribution made to British society. This book is useful for anyone who…
Martin Carter
