The shape of that hurt and other essays - Softcover

Gordon Rohlehr

Softcover

ISBN 10: 976631019X ISBN 13: 9789766310196

Publisher: Longman Trinidad Limited, 1992

Synopsis

Gordon Rohlehr, Professor Emeritus at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, and Trinidad was born in Guyana in 1942. He graduated in 1964 from the University College of the West Indies, Jamaica, with a First Class Honours degree in English Literature, after which he wrote a doctoral dissertation entitled Alienation and Commitment in the Works of Joseph Conrad at Birmingham University, England (1964-1967). He has also been visiting Professor to Harvard (Sept-Dec 1981); the Johns Hopkins University (Sept-Dec 1985); Tulane University (Jan-May 1997); Stephen F. Austin State University (Jan-May 2000); Miami University Writers' Workshop (June-July 1995); York University Toronto (January-Feb 1996) and Dartmouth College, New Hampshire (June-August, 2004). He has spent around forty years in the Department of English at the University of the West Indies at St Augustine, Trinidad, has established an international reputation for his ground-breaking work on Caribbean literature, calypso and culture, is the world's leading authority on calypso, tracing its development over the last two hundred years from its West African origins and studying the vast amount of recorded material produced by generations of West Indians, particularly in Trinidad and Tobago. Also, being a devotee of the game of cricket, Professor Rohlehr has been able to combine his love of the game with his professional interest in Caribbean oral tradition, as the sport is featured prominently in calypsos. Gordon Rohlehr's academic interest and research has resulted in the production of an extensive written opus on West Indian literature, oral poetry, calypso and the popular culture of the Caribbean and in particular between 1968 and 2004, he wrote more than 100 essays on these topics, held over three hundred interviews, prepared and participated in nearly 100 radio and television programmes, and lectured extensively throughout the Caribbean, US, Canada, and the UK.

Edition details

• Publisher: Longman Trinidad Limited
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 976631019X
• ISBN 13: 9789766310196
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 371