Background
She was born in Eccles, East Bank Demerara, Guyana, in 1954.
(This collection brings together unpublished poems, uncoll...)
This collection brings together unpublished poems, uncollected poems, and poems from the previous three collection of the late Mahadai Das. In her personal and political triumphs and losses, this book explores the poet's Indo-Guyanese background, her youthful nationalist fervor, and her disillusionment with post-independence politics. Also included are poems that explore private themes and address...
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( This collection brings together unpublished poems, unco...)
This collection brings together unpublished poems, uncollected poems, and poems from the previous three collection of the late Mahadai Das. In her personal and political triumphs and losses, this book explores the poet’s Indo-Guyanese background, her youthful nationalist fervor, and her disillusionment with post-independence politics. Also included are poems that explore private themes and address illness and death with disarming directness.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1900715597/?tag=2022091-20
She was born in Eccles, East Bank Demerara, Guyana, in 1954.
Das became ill and never completed the programme.
She wrote poetry from her early school days at Bishop"s High School, Georgetown. She did her first degree at the University of Guyana and received her Bachelor of Arts in philosophy at Columbia University, New York, and then began a doctoral programme in Philosophy at the University of Chicago. She was one of the first Indo-Caribbean women to be published.
She has written poetry explicitly relating to ethnic identity, something which contrasts her with other female Indo-Caribbean poets.
Another theme in her writing is the working conditions in the Caribbean islands. She died in 2003, from illness relating to cardiac arrest suffered 10 days before her death.
(This collection brings together unpublished poems, uncoll...)
( This collection brings together unpublished poems, unco...)
She was a dancer, actress, teacher and beauty queen, served as a volunteer member of the Guyana National Service around 1976 and was part of the Messenger Group promoting ‘Coolie’ art forms at a time when Indo-Guyanese culture was virtually excluded from national life.