Texturing the Word. 40 years of Caribbean writing in Britain - ACE438.3

Lamming reading from The Honorable Member (1981) at the Caribbean Writers’ Conference, Commonwealth Institute, October 1986, emphasising the importance of proper education. Heath questions the validity of people adhering to a religion used to suppress them. Commentary mentions the novels Genetha (1981) and Orealla (1984) as examining such issues. Heath talking about the "red skin" middle class in Guyana, an object of both respect and hatred for the working class, how self-education helps some of his characters, and how revolutionaries often forget their ideals when they become middle class themselves. Sea; Grace Nichols on the beach. Nichols reading from I is a Long-Memoried Woman (1983), winner of the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, over.