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Carew, Jan Rynveld was born on September 24, 1920 in Guyana, South America. Son of Alan Charles and Kathleen Ethel (Robertson) Carew.
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Astonishingly vivid, bawdy, and tempestuous, this novel is a cautionary tale about greed and class conflict in postcolonial Guyana. Comparing ruthless 20th-century prospectors to the long-ago Spanish explorers who raped a continent in their quest for El Dorado, the novel follows the dreams and delusions of Aron Smart, a youth orphaned early in life and brought up on a farm by his grandparents who impressed upon him the value of an education. When Aron’s schooling is cut short after a reversal of fortune, however, he becomes deeply discouraged by his lack of opportunity and decides to follow in his father’s footsteps as a diamond prospector. He quickly becomes very richhis companions in the mines call him Shark”and he is determined to use his new wealth to buy his way into the middle class. But Aron is out of his element in the world of property and prestige, and, cheated of his fortune, he returns to the interior, mining with a reckless madness that leaves him terribly maimed in an accidentand causes him to dream of returning to his grandfather’s life, built on the solid rhythms of farming and caring for the land.
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A revealing account of the historical origins of Western racism in the Americas, Dr. Jan Carew takes you through a journey of intense revelation about thte impact of Columbus. Rape of Paradise is more that that, it is the voiceless ones whose whose saga has never been told; who have suffered massive genocide at the hands of Columbus who prepared to 'rape the sun' in search for gold. From the Foreword by Dr. Edward Scobie.
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On the morning of October 12, 1492, a group of Tainos discovered Christopher Columbus and a landing party from his flagship the Santa Maria on a beach of Guanahani. Russell Thornton, author of American Indian Holocaust and Survival: A Population History Since 1492, calls it quite justifiably, "one of the more important demographic events in the history of the world."
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In this coming-of-age novel, a young boy learns firsthand about the contradictions that bedevil the people of Guyana, including the legacy of slavery, the clash of cultural traditions, and the inhospitable terrain. Hector Bradshaw, a sickly child living in Georgetown, finds his life turned upside down when his family decides he would be better off living in the country and sends him away to the remote village of Tarlogie. Once settled there with his kind but old-fashioned guardian, Sister Smart, Hector struggles to make sense of his new community. As time goes by, he is given a dry colonial education, is puzzled by his guardian’s fondness for moral precepts, and is fascinated by the harsh African vision of the old hunter Doorne. Above all, the boy struggles to feel at home in a world where natureso beautiful and so tremendously dangerousdominates the people’s lives.
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Carew, Jan Rynveld was born on September 24, 1920 in Guyana, South America. Son of Alan Charles and Kathleen Ethel (Robertson) Carew.
Student, Howard University, 1946. Student, Western Reserve University, 1948. Student, Charles University, Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1950.
Diploma Advanced Science Research, Sorbonne, France, 1952.
Lecturer extramural department, London U., 1952-1954; broadcaster, British Broadcasting Corporation, 1952-1965; lecturer third world literature, Princeton University, 1968-1972; senior fellow Council for Humanities, Princeton University professor African-American and Third World studies, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 1972-1987; professor emeritus, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, since 1987. Clarence J. Robinson visiting professor George Mason U., 1989-1991. Visiting professor international studies Illinois Wesleyan University, since 1992.
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Member Association Caribbean Studies (president), Caribbean Society Culture and Science, American Association of University Professors, American Association of Retired Persons.
Married Joan Murray, June 14, 1952 (deceased). Married Joy Gleason, September 28, 1975. Children: Lisa St. Aubin, David, Shantoba.