Touch the screen or click to continue...
Checking your browser...
baybark.pages.dev

Ramabai espinet biography of christopher

          In addition to poetry and fiction, Espinet is an established essayist and critic.!

          Ramabai Espinet writes poetry and prose and teaches in the Caribbean Studies programme at the University of Toronto.

        1. Ramabai Espinet writes poetry and prose and teaches in the Caribbean Studies programme at the University of Toronto.
        2. RAMABAI ESPINET was born in Trinidad and has lived in Canada for 25 years.
        3. In addition to poetry and fiction, Espinet is an established essayist and critic.
        4. By the time my parents were born, many Indians in Trinidad had become Chris- tian converts, and those who had not still took advantage of the church schools.
        5. Christopher Pinheiro and Ramabai Espinet.

          6. Ramabai Espinet

          Ramabai Espinet (born 1948) is an Indo-Trinidadian poet, novelist, essayist, and critic from Trinidad and Tobago. Espinet was born in San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago.[1] She attended York University in Toronto, Canada before earning a Ph.D.

          at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad.[2] She currently teaches English at Seneca College.[3] Her writings on Euro-Creole women are influenced by works by Jean Rhys and Phyllis Shand Allfrey.

          Most of Espinet's works relate to her Indo-Caribbean heritage.

          Abstract.

          Sister Vision Press published her first four works in Toronto, Canada.

          Influence

          Espinet has stated that she desires to illustrate the experiences of Indo-Caribbeans and highlight the effects of alcoholism and abuse on West Indian women.

          West Indians have said that the book The Swinging Bridge gives them values, articulates their experiences, and contains "language for the healing".[4] Although Espinet t