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Daizal R. Samad and Ashwannie Harripersaud's Across the Oceans: Multi-disciplinary, Multi-continental Essays is a collection that traverses vast intellectual and geo-cultural territories. Samad's incisive essays, co-authored with Harripersaud, interrogate themes of displacement, identity, and cultural memory from Caribbean, Malaysian, and Canadian perspectives. In almost surgical fashion, the essays dissect postcolonial literature, critique systemic failures in education, and analyze societal issues like bullying. A central, unifying meditation explores how fragmented individuals and societies seek wholeness through literature and memory. Challenging boundaries between genres and disciplines, this volume offers no easy resolutions; rather, it offers a profound, uncomfortable engagement with truth, legacy, and the relentless pursuit of belonging.

Professor Daizal R. Samad is a world-renowned scholar who has taught, researched, and written across five continents-North America, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and South America. Honoured with Best Professorships on three continents, he returned to Guyana in 2008 to serve as Director of The University of Guyana Berbice Campus and now teaches there. Author and editor of ten international books, he is currently working on Behind the Seawall and a collection of short stories. A prolific scholar, Professor Samad has published hundreds of articles and mentors young teachers, several of whom are now published writers.

Dr. Ashwannie Harripersaud earned her Doctorate in Education from Selinus University, Italy, and holds degrees from JAIN University, India, and The University of Guyana. A teacher for over two decades, she has published twenty scholarly articles and multiple acclaimed books, including Wholeness and Home in West Indian Literature and the Dictionary Series, the latter earning the 2024 Blue Rose Book Award.