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What is the setting of the story Johnson and the Cascadura?
The village obeahman Manko foresees trouble when Englishman Garry Johnson comes to stay in the cacao estate of his friend Roger Franklin in post-independence Trinidad. Before long his prophecy is fulfilled when the visitor falls in love with the beautiful Indian girl Sarojini.
What did Samuel Selvon contribute to Trinidad and Tobago?
Samuel Selvon (20 May 1923 – 16 April 1994) was a Trinidad-born writer, who moved to London, England, in the 1950s. His 1956 novel The Lonely Londoners is groundbreaking in its use of creolised English, or “nation language”, for narrative as well as dialogue.
When was ways of sunlight written?
1957
Abstract. This chapter argues that Sam Selvon’s short story sequence “Ways of Sunlight” (1957) pioneered a specific technique of constructing coherence between different narratives.
Where did Samuel Selvon live?
Alberta1978–1994
Trinidad and Tobago
Sam Selvon/Places lived
During this period he took up writer-in-residence posts at the universities of the West Indies, Victoria, Winnipeg, Alberta and Calgary. Selvon lived in Canada until his death in 1994, when aged 71 he died in Trinidad on a return trip.
Is the legend of the Cascadura true?
Johnson and the Cascadura is a fictional short story about a white Englishman, Garry Johnson, who went to Trinidad “to get background material for a book he was writing, on superstition and witchcraft.” While there, Johnson met an Indian girl, Urmilla, who worked on the estate where Johnson was staying.
What is the legend of Cascadura?
Those who eat the Cascadura will, the native legend says, wheresoever they may wander end in Trinidad their days,” Johnson and the Cascadura (Selvon, 1957). So goes the folklore in Trinidad and Tobago about this rare, prized member of the catfish family, known in Guyana and Brazil as hassar.
Is Samuel Selvon still alive?
Deceased (1923–1994)
Sam Selvon/Living or Deceased
What was Samuel Selvon’s first career?
Selvon worked as a wireless operator for a local branch of the Royal Navy during World War II on ships that patrolled the Caribbean; during a slack period he began to write poetry. In 1946 he went to work at the Trinidad Guardian.
Where was ways of sunlight written?
Ways of sunlight
| Author: | Samuel Selvon |
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| Publisher: | Harlow, Essex, England : Longman, 1987, ©1957. |
| Series: | Longman Caribbean writers. |
| Edition/Format: | Print book : Fiction : EnglishView all editions and formats |
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When was Samuel Selvon born?
May 20, 1923
Sam Selvon/Date of birth
What is the meaning of Cascadura?
armored catfish
: an armored catfish of the family Callichthyidae.
What is Cascadoo?
5. Noun. An edible species of armour plated catfish that grows up to 24.0 centimetres in length. Males grow to a larger average and maximum size than females and, during the reproductive season, develop fat deposits in the pectoral fin and an elongated recurved pectoral spine that often assumes a reddish colour.