Oscar Dathorne
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Guyanese writer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Oscar Ronald Dathorne was a Guyanese educator, novelist, poet and critic. He was the founder of the Association of Caribbean Studies and the Journal of Caribbean Studies. Biography Born in Georgetown, Guyana, Dathorne attended Queen's College, prior to his parents moving the family to England in 1953. He attended the University of Sheffield in 1955, obtaining his BA English degree in 1958 and subsequently completing his MA in 1960 and his PhD, English, in 1966.
Oscar Dathorne's Published Works
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- African literature in the twentieth century (1975) (66)
- Imagining the world (1994) (36)
- The Black Mind: A History of African Literature (1976) (22)
- Dark Ancestor: The Literature of the Black Man in the Caribbean (1981) (15)
- Imagining the World: Mythical Belief versus Reality in Global Encounters (1994) (9)
- The Theme of Africa in West Indian Literature (1965) (6)
- Africa in the Literature of the West Indies (1966) (5)
- Asian Voyages: Two Thousand Years of Constructing the Other (1996) (5)
- Africa in prose (1969) (4)
- Worlds Apart: Race in the Modern Period (2001) (3)
- African Literature IV: Ritual and Ceremony in Okigbo's Poetry (1968) (2)
- Caribbean narrative : an anthology of West Indian writing (1966) (2)
- In Europe's Image: The Need for American Multiculturalism (1994) (1)
- Our poets speak: an anthology of West African verse for young readers; (1966) (1)
- Ibo Literature: The Novel as Allegory (1968) (1)
- Africa as Ancestor : Diop as Unifier (1989) (1)
- ROGER MAIS: THE MAN ON THE CROSS (2016) (0)
- Tradition and the African poet (1967) (0)
- Dumplings in the soup (1965) (0)
- Poem of Exile (1964) (0)
- Caribbean aspirations and achievements : Seventh Annual Conference Association of Caribbean Studies 1985 (1985) (0)
- Book Reviews -Anthony P. Maingot, Eric Williams, Forged from the love of liberty: selected speeches of Dr. Eric Williams. Compiled and introduced by Paul K. Sutton. Trinidad: Longman Caribbean, 1981. 473 pp (2006) (0)
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