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9780920661888 English 0920661882 Fiction. Asian American Studies. The English-speaking Caribbean countries have produced a prolific and great literature in the past fifty years. This anthology highlights the works of Indo-Caribbean fiction writers, of whom a substantial number are also Canadians. Included here is a broad spectrum of writers dealing with themes varying from the historical, with works set in the colonial past, to the more modern, in writing concerned with the complex interactions of contemporary life in the Caribbean and abroad in Canada, the U.S., and the U.K. **Call to check inventory before ordering., Indians have lived in the Caribbean for more than a hundred and sixty years, ever since they took to the ships to work on the sugar plantations. Jahaji (the term meaning "ship-traveler") brings together a representative selection of Indo-Caribbean fiction from three generations of writers from Ismith Khan through Rooplall Monar and Cyril Dabydeen to Marian Budhos and Shani Mootoo. Together, the sixteen writers included here give us an imaginative depiction of the experiences of their people across a span of fifty years - the hopes, aspirations and frustrations of life in colonial Trinidad and Guyana, the post-independence tribulations of third-world citizens and the quest for meaning and identity in the second migration to Canada, the United States and Britain. Contributors: Ismith Khan, Elahi Baksh, Jan Shinebourne, Sharlow Mohammed, Madeline Coopsammy, Narmala Shewcharan, Harishchandra Khemraj, Sasenarine Persaud, Cyril Dabydeen, Rooplall Monar, Marina Budhos, Christine Singh, Shani Mootoo, Rabindranath Maharaj, Rajne Ramlakhan, Raywat Deonandan., WHAT IS LATENT DEMAND AND THE P.I.E.' The concept of latent demand is rather subtle. The term latent typically refers to something that is dormant, not observable, or not yet realized. Demand is the notion of an economic quantity that a target population
9780920661888 English 0920661882 Fiction. Asian American Studies. The English-speaking Caribbean countries have produced a prolific and great literature in the past fifty years. This anthology highlights the works of Indo-Caribbean fiction writers, of whom a substantial number are also Canadians. Included here is a broad spectrum of writers dealing with themes varying from the historical, with works set in the colonial past, to the more modern, in writing concerned with the complex interactions of contemporary life in the Caribbean and abroad in Canada, the U.S., and the U.K. **Call to check inventory before ordering., Indians have lived in the Caribbean for more than a hundred and sixty years, ever since they took to the ships to work on the sugar plantations. Jahaji (the term meaning "ship-traveler") brings together a representative selection of Indo-Caribbean fiction from three generations of writers from Ismith Khan through Rooplall Monar and Cyril Dabydeen to Marian Budhos and Shani Mootoo. Together, the sixteen writers included here give us an imaginative depiction of the experiences of their people across a span of fifty years - the hopes, aspirations and frustrations of life in colonial Trinidad and Guyana, the post-independence tribulations of third-world citizens and the quest for meaning and identity in the second migration to Canada, the United States and Britain. Contributors: Ismith Khan, Elahi Baksh, Jan Shinebourne, Sharlow Mohammed, Madeline Coopsammy, Narmala Shewcharan, Harishchandra Khemraj, Sasenarine Persaud, Cyril Dabydeen, Rooplall Monar, Marina Budhos, Christine Singh, Shani Mootoo, Rabindranath Maharaj, Rajne Ramlakhan, Raywat Deonandan., WHAT IS LATENT DEMAND AND THE P.I.E.' The concept of latent demand is rather subtle. The term latent typically refers to something that is dormant, not observable, or not yet realized. Demand is the notion of an economic quantity that a target population