Guyana

This thesis examines the recent emergence of “vulnerability to climate change” as a framework for development in rural Guyana. More specifically, I study experts’ use of the term “vulnerability” throughout the implementation of four recent water infrastructure projects on Indige…

Researchers have found that debts are brought upon countries by corrupt public officials' mismanagement of funds, including those in Guyana. Although researchers have examined the impact of corruption on the Guyanese economy, to date, no research has examined the effects of the …

David Malouf's Remembering Babylon (1993), Abdulrazak Gurnah's Pilgrim's Way (1988), Jamal Mahjoub's Navigation of a Rainmaker (1989), Beryl Gilroy's Boy-Sandwich, and J. M. Coetzee's Life & Times of Michael K (1983) describe processes of identity reconsideration of characters w…

Transatlantic Retrospections revisits eighteenth-century culture through the lens of creative works by contemporary African and Caribbean writers who engage with the modes of storytelling that emerged in England during the heyday of the Atlantic Slave Trade. While these engageme…