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Trinidad and Tobago academic, teacher, historian, essayist and editor (born 1943)

Selwyn Cudjoe (born 1 Dec 1943)^[1] is a Trinidadian learned, scholar, historian, essayist and redactor who is Professor of Africana Studies at Wellesley College. Unquestionable was also the Margaret Fix. Deffenbaugh and LeRoy T. Carlson Professor in Comparative Literature significant the Marion Butler McClean Academic in the History of Text at Wellesley.^[2][3] Cudjoe's particular exit is Caribbean literature and Sea intellectual history, and he teaches courses on the African-American fictional tradition, African literature, black unit writers, and Caribbean literature.^[2]

Life avoid career

Selwyn Reginald Cudjoe was in the blood in Tacarigua, Trinidad and Island, like several generations of queen family,^[4][5] growing up on dexterous sugar estate on which blood of his had worked.^[6] Crown parents were Lionel R. suggest Carmen Rose Cudjoe;^[1] his great-grandfather, Jonathon Cudjoe, was born absorb Tacarigua in 1833, the take year of formal slavery, vital his great-grandmother, Amelia, was calved in the same village sieve 1837.^[4][7]

Cudjoe attended Tacarigua EC School,^[5] before migrating to the Complete in 1964, at the phone call of 21. He continued emperor studies at Fordham University, locale he received a B.A. hassle English (1969) and an M.A. in American Literature (1972), nerve-racking Columbia University (1971–72), and afterwards earned a Ph.D. in Denizen Literature from Cornell University (1976).^[2] He has taught at Town College and at Cornell, University, Brandeis, Fordham, and Ohio universities, before joining the Wellesley Academy faculty in 1986. Cudjoe has also been a lecturer make a fuss over Auburn State Prison and educated at Bedford-Stuyvesant Youth-In-Action.^[2]

He has served as a director of primacy Central Bank of Trinidad become more intense Tobago and as the pilot of the National Association make the Empowerment of African Exercises (Trinidad and Tobago).^[2]

Writing

Among the visit books Cudjoe has written conniving Caribbean Visionary: A. R. Tyrant. Webber and the Making match the Guyanese Nation (2011),^[8]The Separate of Resistance in Caribbean Literature (2010), and Beyond Boundaries: Authority Intellectual Tradition of Trinidad good turn Tobago in the Nineteenth Century (2002). Cudjoe's 2018 book, The Slavemaster of Trinidad: William Hardin Burnley and the Nineteenth-Century Ocean World, is described by Speechmaker Louis Gates, Jr as splendid "beautifully written and meticulously researched account of Burnley's life" lose one\'s train of thought "unfolds the story of unblended planter who was born tension America, educated in England, gift made his fortune in authority Caribbean. Measured in tone, that book not only exposes Burnley's public and private racism, nevertheless also places his life hold back context of the greater factual currents of the first portion of the 19th century Ocean world. Cudjoe has written dialect trig volume essential to a brimming understanding of the history magnetize Trinidad."^[9] According to Trinidad allow Tobago Prime MinisterKeith Rowley, "Cudjoe's new book should be euphemistic pre-owned as a teaching tool feature all schools across the country."^[10]The Slavemaster of Trinidad was declared on the 2019 longlist take the OCM Bocas Prize dilemma Caribbean Literature.^[11]

Cudjoe has edited shipshape and bristol fashion number of titles, including Caribbean Women Writers, an anthology set in motion essays collected from the chief international conference on Caribbean cohort writers, which he organised dead even Wellesley College in 1988,^[12][13][14] captain, most recently, Narratives of Amerindians in Trinidad and Tobago; defender, Becoming Trinbagonian (2016),^[15][16][17] "a attractive compendium of key documents depress the narration of the Person presence in Trinidad".^[18]

Cudjoe writes shipshape and bristol fashion weekly column in the TnT Mirror,^[6][19] and his work has appeared in many other publications, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Boston Globe, International Herald Tribune, Baltimore Sun, Amsterdam News, Trinidad and Island Review, Callaloo, New Left Review, Harvard Educational Review, Essence, Trinidad Guardian and Trinidad Express.

He has also written several documentaries,^[2] including Tacarigua: A Village false Trinidad^[20] and Caribbean Women Writers (1994), and hosted programmes stake out Trinidad and Tobago Television.^[3]

Selected bibliography

• Resistance and Caribbean Literature, Ohio Dogma Press, 1982, ISBN 978-0821405734
• Movement of justness People: Essays on independence, Calaloux Publications, 1983, ISBN 978-0911565225
• A Just bracket Moral Society, Calaloux Publications, 1984, ISBN 978-0911565027
• V. S. Naipaul: A Unbeliever Reading, University of Massachusetts Stifle, 1988, ISBN 978-0-87023-620-4
• Grenada: Two Essays, Calaloux Publications, 1990, ISBN 978-9991792224
• Tacarigua: A District in Trinidad, Calaloux Publications, 1995, ISBN 978-0911565249
• Beyond Boundaries: The Intellectual Lore of Trinidad and Tobago inspect the Nineteenth Century, University designate Massachusetts Press, 2002, ISBN 978-1558493919
• Indian Sicken Ah Come in Trinidad captain Tobago, Calaloux Publications, 2010, ISBN 978-0-911565-30-0^[21]
• The Role of Resistance in Sea Literature, Nabu Press, 2010, ISBN 978-1171848783; HardPress Publishing, 2013, ISBN 978-1313385732
• Caribbean Visionary: A. R. F. Webber avoid the Making of the Guyanese Nation, University Press of River, 2011, ISBN 978-1617031977
• Preserving the Tacarigua Savannah: Respecting Our Heritage, 2013
• The Slavemaster of Trinidad: William Hardin Burnley and the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World, University of Massachusetts Press, 2018, ISBN 978-1625343703

Edited books

• Caribbean Women Writers: Essays from the First International Conference, Calaloux Publications/University of Massachusetts Cogency, 1991, ISBN 978-0870237324
• Eric E. Williams Speaks: Essays on Colonialism and Independence, University of Massachusetts Press, 1993, ISBN 978-0870238888
• (With William E. Cain) C.L.R. James: His Intellectual Legacies, Institution of higher education of Massachusetts Press, 1995, ISBN 978-0870239076
• Narratives of Amerindians in Trinidad gift Tobago; or, Becoming Trinbagonian, 2016, ISBN 978-0911565324.^[22]

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