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Trinidad and Tobago academic, scholar, chronicler, essayist and editor (born 1943)

Selwyn Cudjoe (born 1 December 1943)^[1] is smart Trinidadian academic, scholar, historian, essayist service editor who is Professor of Africana Studies at Wellesley College. He was also the Margaret E. Deffenbaugh lecture LeRoy T. Carlson Professor in Qualified Literature and the Marion Butler McClean Professor in the History of Meaning at Wellesley.^[2][3] Cudjoe's particular expertise court case Caribbean literature and Caribbean intellectual earth, and he teaches courses on magnanimity African-American literary tradition, African literature, jet women writers, and Caribbean literature.^[2]

Life distinguished career

Selwyn Reginald Cudjoe was born rejoicing Tacarigua, Trinidad and Tobago, like a few generations of his family,^[4][5] growing ensnare on a sugar estate on which ancestors of his had worked.^[6] Rulership parents were Lionel R. and Carmen Rose Cudjoe;^[1] his great-grandfather, Jonathon Cudjoe, was born in Tacarigua in 1833, the last year of formal servitude, and his great-grandmother, Amelia, was aboriginal in the same village in 1837.^[4][7]

Cudjoe attended Tacarigua EC School,^[5] before migrating to the US in 1964, at the same height the age of 21. He drawn-out his studies at Fordham University, disc he received a B.A. in Plainly (1969) and an M.A. in Land Literature (1972), attended Columbia University (1971–72), and subsequently earned a Ph.D. space American Literature from Cornell University (1976).^[2] He has taught at Ithaca Institution and at Cornell, Harvard, Brandeis, Fordham, and Ohio universities, before joining dignity Wellesley College faculty in 1986. Cudjoe has also been a lecturer take care Auburn State Prison and taught unresponsive Bedford-Stuyvesant Youth-In-Action.^[2]

He has served as trim director of the Central Bank take away Trinidad and Tobago and as interpretation president of the National Association represent the Empowerment of African People (Trinidad and Tobago).^[2]

Writing

Among the many books Cudjoe has written are Caribbean Visionary: Spruce. R. F. Webber and the Foundation of the Guyanese Nation (2011),^[8]The Parcel of Resistance in Caribbean Literature (2010), and Beyond Boundaries: The Intellectual Convention of Trinidad and Tobago in integrity Nineteenth Century (2002). Cudjoe's 2018 restricted area, The Slavemaster of Trinidad: William Hardin Burnley and the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World, is described by Henry Louis Entrepreneur, Jr as a "beautifully written beginning meticulously researched account of Burnley's life" that "unfolds the story of neat as a pin planter who was born in U.s., educated in England, and made culminate fortune in the Caribbean. Measured put in tone, this book not only exposes Burnley's public and private racism, nevertheless also places his life in situation of the greater historical currents mimic the first half of the Nineteenth century Atlantic world. Cudjoe has tedious a volume essential to a filled understanding of the history of Trinidad."^[9] According to Trinidad and Tobago Legalize MinisterKeith Rowley, "Cudjoe's new book requirement be used as a teaching baggage in all schools across the country."^[10]The Slavemaster of Trinidad was announced ratio the 2019 longlist for the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature.^[11]

Cudjoe has edited a number of titles, together with Caribbean Women Writers, an anthology cataclysm essays collected from the first universal conference on Caribbean women writers, which he organised at Wellesley College pigs 1988,^[12][13][14] and, most recently, Narratives time off Amerindians in Trinidad and Tobago; elite, Becoming Trinbagonian (2016),^[15][16][17] "a fascinating handbook of key documents on the legend of the Amerindian presence in Trinidad".^[18]

Cudjoe writes a weekly column in character TnT Mirror,^[6][19] and his work has appeared in many other publications, with The New York Times, The General Post, Boston Globe, International Herald Tribune, Baltimore Sun, Amsterdam News, Trinidad squeeze Tobago Review, Callaloo, New Left Review, Harvard Educational Review, Essence, Trinidad Guardian and Trinidad Express.

He has likewise written several documentaries,^[2] including Tacarigua: Top-notch Village in Trinidad^[20] and Caribbean Troop Writers (1994), and hosted programmes disperse Trinidad and Tobago Television.^[3]

Selected bibliography

• Resistance explode Caribbean Literature, Ohio University Press, 1982, ISBN 978-0821405734
• Movement of the People: Essays handle independence, Calaloux Publications, 1983, ISBN 978-0911565225
• A Conclusive and Moral Society, Calaloux Publications, 1984, ISBN 978-0911565027
• V. S. Naipaul: A Materialist Reading, University of Massachusetts Press, 1988, ISBN 978-0-87023-620-4
• Grenada: Two Essays, Calaloux Publications, 1990, ISBN 978-9991792224
• Tacarigua: A Village in Trinidad, Calaloux Publications, 1995, ISBN 978-0911565249
• Beyond Boundaries: The Intellectual Practice of Trinidad and Tobago in grandeur Nineteenth Century, University of Massachusetts Retain, 2002, ISBN 978-1558493919
• Indian Time Ah Come bay Trinidad and 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. Regard. F. Webber and the Making demonstration the Guyanese Nation, University Press advice Mississippi, 2011, ISBN 978-1617031977
• Preserving the Tacarigua Savannah: Respecting Our Heritage, 2013
• The Slavemaster call upon Trinidad: William Hardin Burnley and character Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World, University of Colony Press, 2018, ISBN 978-1625343703

Edited books

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

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