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Gordon Rohlehr published all his outstanding works of literary and cultural criticism in Trinidad. Consequently, the importance of his seminal work has been too little known and recognised outside the region. The simple fact is that along with Kamau Brathwaite and Kenneth Ramchand, no critic did more to establish the subject of Caribbean writing and its aesthetics as a distinctive body of work. These essays were the work of a young academic changing the university curriculum, but they were also deeply engaged with, and spoke to, the less privileged world outside the campus.
What is outstanding about Rohlehrs work is not merely the depth and acuity (and humanity) of analysis, but its courage. He writes at a point when the literature he writes about is still emergent. There is no waiting for the credibility of metropolitan sales and endorsements as a guide to the cannon. His long essay, 'My Strangled City', a record of how Trinidads poets responded to the upsurge of revolutionary hopes, radical shams, repressions and disappointed dreams of the period between 1964-1975 is an indispensable account of those times and the diversity of literary response that continues to speak to the present. The energy of his work restores forgotten voices, and yet what he writes about Walcott and Naipaul is some of the finest, most acutely focused criticism that has been written about those giants.
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