Many due to the buddies and colleagues that shared the unhappy information that Guyanese scholar and literary/social critic Gordon Rohlehr handed away yesterday (January 29, 2023). Right here an article by Denis Chabrol (Demerara Waves).
Emeritus Professor at Trinidad’s St Augustine Campus of the College of the West Indies (UWI), Guyana-born Gordon Rohlehr has died, plunging the tutorial and humanities neighborhood into mourning.
He was 80 years previous.
Former UWI Worldwide Relations Professor, Mark Kirton mirrored on the lifetime of Dr Rohlehr. “I knew of his work and of his achievements as an alumnus of QC (Queen’s School) and met him whereas I labored at UWI St. Augustine Trinidad. He was an authority on West Indian literature and the calypso. He was a real educational {and professional}, at all times keen to supply recommendation and steerage to younger students and college students,” Dr Kirton, a Guyanese, instructed Demerara Waves On-line Information.
Professor Rohlehr’s reason for dying was not instantly identified.
Unquestionably one of many Caribbean’s best critics and thinkers, his territory covers each literature and common tradition, significantly calypso.
He graduated in 1964 from the College School of the West Indies, Jamaica, with a First Class Honours diploma in English Literature, after which he wrote a doctoral dissertation titled “Alienation and Dedication within the Works of Joseph Conrad” at Birmingham College, England (1964-1967).
His publications embody: Pathfinder: Black Awakening in “The Arrivants” of Edward Kamau Brathwaite (Tunapuna: School Press, 1981); Cultural Resistance and the Guyana State (Casa de las Américas, 1984); Calypso and Society in Pre-Independence Trinidad (Port of Spain, 1990); My Strangled Metropolis and Different Essays (Longman Trinidad, 1992); The Form of That Damage and Different Essays (Longman Trinidad, 1992); A Scuffling of Islands: Essays on Calypso (Lexicon Trinidad Ltd, 2004); Transgression, Transition, Transformation: Essays in Caribbean Tradition (Lexicon, 2007); Ancestories: Readings of Kamau Brathwaite’s “Ancestors” (Trinidad: Lexicon, 2010) and My Entire Life is Calypso: Essays on Sparrow (2015).
For unique article, see https://demerarawaves.com/2023/01/29/guyanese-academic-gordon-rohlehr-dies
See extra about Gordon Rohlehrat https://www.peepaltreepress.com/authors/gordon-rohlehr, https://www.bocaslitfest.com/participant/gordon-rohlehr/ and http://www.theintegrationistcaribbean.org/biography/gordon-rohlehr/
[Photo above (detail) from https://newsday.co.tt/2019/05/29/rohlehrs-bookman-runs-deep/]