By Kumar Mahabir

This collection of eleven essays focuses mainly on a variety of literary works by Caribbean writers.

Part One comprises critical perspectives on individual poems by A.L. Hendriks (“Neighbour, Tenth Floor”), Mervyn Morris (“Cave”), Eric Roach (“I am the Archipelago”) and Anthony McNeill (“Rimbaud Jingle”).

Part Two critiques individual novels by John Hearne (Voices Under the Window), Wilson Harris (Palace of the Peacock), George Lamming (In the Castle of My Skin) and Earl Lovelace (The Dragon Can’t Dance)

Part Three studies the works by V.S. Naipaul on his childhood and education.

Part Four analyses the Trinidad observance of Hosay/Muharram as a form of folk drama/street theatre.

The collection concludes with an Appendix which contains an exclusive record of a talk by Samuel Selvon to a few students in 1982.

Kumar Mahabir

is a full-time anthropologist at the University of Guyana (UG) and Fellow of The Eccles Centre for American Studies, British Library (2022-23). He is a former Assistant Professor at the University of Trinidad and Tobago (UTT). He obtained his Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Florida (UF). As a doctoral student, he won a Florida Caribbean Institute Award, an A. Curtis Wilgus Grant, and an Organization of American States (OAS) Fellowship.
Mahabir received a National Award (Hummingbird Silver Medal) for his contribution to education in his country in 2011. He was among 50 recipients who received a Distinguished Alumni Award from the UWI Alumni Association.
Mahabir is the author of 12 books to date.

Multiple Identities
Essays on Caribbean Literature

By Kumar Mahabir

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