Guinea’s Other Suns: The African Dynamic in Trinidad Culture
written by Maureen Warner Lewis, fl. 1967 (Kingston, Kingston Parish: University of the West Indies Press, 2015), 319 page(s)
Details
- Abstract / Summary
- Guinea’s Other Suns is a classic collection of essays on the forced and voluntary migration to Trinidad of West and West-Central Africans during the 1800s, extending through both the slavery and post-emancipation eras. This second edition is a thematic expansion buttressed by historical documentary sources and painstaking linguistic research. Maureen Warner-Lewis examines African cultural practices and artifacts as recalled by the biological descendants of these migrants during interviews with the author in the 1960s and 1970s. The wars caused by ethnic and religious contestations, economic advantage and imperial expansionism are significant themes in the literary repertoire, but so too are themes of love, the yearning for home, pride in ethnic and family identity, the pain of exile, and the separation of death. Warner-Lewis explores the poetic techniques, musical genres and instrumentation, language patterns, athletic and masquerade traditions, economic arrangements, and religious beliefs and rituals of the Yoruba, Kongo, Angolan, Hausa and Rada (Dahomeyan) communities which this peasantry and urban labour force introduced or reinforced on the island. While some of these artifacts have withered away, or are now moribund, others continue to inform the still-evolving twenty-first-century cultural life of the island.
- Field of Interest
- Black Studies
- Author
- Maureen Warner Lewis, fl. 1967
- Copyright Message
- Copyright © 1991, 2015 Maureen Warner-Lewis
- Content Type
- Book
- Warning: Contains explicit content
- No
- Format
- Text
- Page Count
- 319
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of the West Indies Press
- Place Published / Released
- Kingston, Kingston Parish
- Subject
- Black Studies, Diversity, Migration, Identities and Experiences, Family and Culture, Cultural identity, Race and culture, Migration, Familia y Cultura, Família e Cultura, Trinidad y Tobago, Trinidad e Tobago, Trinidad and Tobago, Hausa, Angolans, Kongo, Yoruba
- Keywords and Translated Subjects
- Familia y Cultura, Família e Cultura, Trinidad y Tobago, Trinidad e Tobago
