Author: F. MalletPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Trinidad
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Descriptive account of the island of Trinidad, 1797
Proceedings of the Scientific Association of Trinidad
Author: Between the Bocas
Author: Jak PeakePublisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1781384568
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Situated opposite the mouth of the Orinoco River, western Trinidad has long been considered an entrepôt to mainland South America. Trinidad’s geographic position—seen as strategic by various imperial governments—led to many heterogeneous peoples from across the region and globe settling or being relocated there. The calm waters around the Gulf of Paria on the western fringes of Trinidad induced settlers to construct a harbour, Port of Spain, around which the modern capital has been formed. From its colonial roots into the postcolonial era, western Trinidad therefore has played an especial part in the shaping of the island’s literature. Viewed from one perspective, western Trinidad might be deemed as narrating the heart of the modern state’s national literature. Alternatively, the political threats posed around San Fernando in Trinidad’s southwest in the 1930s and from within the capital in the 1970s present a different picture of western Trinidad—one in which the fractures of Trinidad and Tobago’s projected nationalism are prevalent. While sugar remains a dominant narrative in Caribbean literary studies, this book offers a unique literary perspective on matters too often perceived as the sole preserve of sociological, anthropological or geographical studies. The legacy of the oil industry and the development of the suburban commuter belt of East-West Corridor, therefore, form considerable discursive nodes, alongside other key Trinidadian sites, such as Woodford Square, colonial houses and the urban yards of Port of Spain. This study places works by well-known authors such as V. S. Naipaul and Samuel Selvon, alongside writing by Michel Maxwell Philip, Marcella Fanny Wilkins, E. L. Joseph, Earl Lovelace, Ismith Khan, Monique Roffey, Arthur Calder-Marshall and the largely neglected novelist, Yseult Bridges, who is almost entirely forgotten today. Using fiction, calypso, history, memoir, legal accounts, poetry, essays and journalism, this study opens with an analysis of Trinidad’s nineteenth century literature and offers twentieth century and more contemporary readings of the island in successive chapters. Chapters are roughly arranged in chronological order around particular sites and topoi, while literature from a variety of authors of British, Caribbean, Irish and Jewish descent is represented.
British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Author: Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the University of Edinburgh
Author: Edinburgh University LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1424
Book Description
Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: The Plantation Slaves of Trinidad, 1783-1816
Author: A. Meredith JohnPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521361668
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
This book aims to estimate the levels of plantation slave mortality and fertility in Trinidad.
Dictionary Catalog of the Map Division
Author: New York Public Library. Map DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dictionary catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 938
Book Description
Lists and Indexes from the Public Record Office
Author: List & Index SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
The eighteenth century Caribbean & the British attack on Puerto Rico in 1797
Author: María Mercedes AlonsoPublisher: National Park Service Department of Interior
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description