The Sleepers of Roraima & The Age of Rainmakers Alawiya Sobh Brathwaite and Martin Carter

Brathwaite and Martin Carter

It was no surprise when I found she had homesteaded on Wrangell Island in Alaska for ten years

Emergency Index 2011 documents 249 performance works made in 27 countries around the world

All This and Many a Dog

This new critical study comprises interviews with the key players in this first generation of postcolonial playwrights

The Sleepers of Roraima & The Age of Rainmakers Alawiya Sobh Brathwaite and Martin CarterIn 1970 and 1971, Wilson Harris published two short story collections that explored the myths, fables and fragments of history of the Amerindian peoples of Guyana and the Caribbean. These are brought together in the current volume. In the absence of reliable history, and in the face of the stereotypes attached to these people (such as stoicism or a propensity for laughter), Harris makes no attempt to write conventional fictional reconstructions of an