NEW YORK (AP) — George Lamming, a giant of post-colonial literature whose novels, essays and speeches influenced readers and peers in his native Barbados and around the world, has died at age 94. His ...
06.19.2022 usatoday.com , abcnews.go.com , sfgate.com and 63 sitesWhen C. L. R. James, a Marxist intellectual and essayist from the Caribbean island of Trinidad, died in 1989 at age 88, the Times of London lauded him as a “black Plato. ” Many on the left today would...
06.24.2022 Wsj.comPlaceholder whereas article actions load George Lamming, a Barbadian creator who positioned the legacy of colonialism on the heart of his lyrical novels and essays, buying a repute as one of many best...
06.21.2022 Sfgate.com and 4 sitesCurtain Call for Kate Snodgrass (GRS’90) at BU and Boston Playwrights’ Theatre Kate Snodgrass (GRS’90), long-serving artistic director of Boston Playwrights’ Theatre and the prize-winning annual Bosto...
06.23.2022 Bu.eduHere is a translation of a beautiful obituary essay by Cuban poet Nancy Morejón, A PROPÓSITO DE GEORGE LAMMING . [Many thanks to Richard Price for sharing the original essay. ] The great writer, doyen of English-speaking Caribbean storytellers and thinkers, George Lamming (1927-2022) just died this Saturday, June 4, on the island of Barbados, his homeland. It seems that the torrential waters of the beginning of June wanted to put an end to his long and immense life experience and, also, to his e...
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