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'''Brenda Chester DoHarris''' (born 9 June 1946) is a writer and academic from [[Guyana]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=DoHarris, Brenda|url=https://oxfordaasc.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195301731.001.0001/acref-9780195301731-e-73817|access-date=2020-12-30|website=Oxford African American Studies Center|language=en|doi=10.1093/acref/9780195301731.013.73817|doi-broken-date=1 November 2024}}</ref> |
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'''Brenda Chester DoHarris''' is a writer who was born and raised in [[British Guiana]] (now [[Guyana]]).{{citation needed|date=January 2015}} |
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==Career== |
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| ⚫ | She is a professor of English at [[Bowie State University]] in [[Bowie, Maryland]]{{ |
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Doharris was born in [[Georgetown, Guyana|Georgetown]], [[British Guiana]] and attended [[Bishops' High School, Guyana|Bishops' High School]] on scholarship. Her education and experience growing up in rural Kitty were a major influence on her writing.<ref name=":0" /> |
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| ⚫ | She is a professor of English at [[Bowie State University]] in [[Bowie, Maryland]],<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=Preserving our literary heritage|url=https://guyanachronicle.com/2010/03/07/preserving-our-literary-heritage-7/|access-date=2020-12-30|website=Guyana Chronicle|date=7 March 2010 |language=en-US}}</ref> and a graduate of [[Columbia University]]<ref name=":1" /> and [[Howard University]], where she received a B.A. (1970) then M.S. (1972) in English.<ref name=":0" /> The first Guyanese woman to run in Guyana for office of presidency of a [[trades union]],{{citation needed|date=January 2015}} she became actively involved in the Guyanese political movement for [[democracy]] during the 1970s.{{citation needed|date=January 2015}} |
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She has travelled widely in [[Africa]], the [[Caribbean]] and China, where she attended the U.S./China Joint Conference on Women's Issues.{{citation needed|date=January 2015}} Her area of scholarly interest is post-colonial women's literature.{{citation needed|date=January 2015}} |
She has travelled widely in [[Africa]], the [[Caribbean]] and China, where she attended the U.S./China Joint Conference on Women's Issues.{{citation needed|date=January 2015}} Her area of scholarly interest is post-colonial women's literature.{{citation needed|date=January 2015}} |
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==Works== |
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Her novel ''The Coloured Girl in the Ring: A Guyanese Woman Remembers'' (1997) is a fictional exploration of a young Black woman's coming of age in British Guiana of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Told against the backdrop of political and racial turbulence, the novel employs a first-person narrative format and proffers a well-defined portrait of the main character's recollection of her family life, her oppressive school teachers, her friends' doomed inter-racial romance and her thoughts on race and identity. |
Her novel ''The Coloured Girl in the Ring: A Guyanese Woman Remembers'' (1997) is a fictional exploration of a young Black woman's coming of age in British Guiana of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Told against the backdrop of political and racial turbulence, the novel employs a first-person narrative format and proffers a well-defined portrait of the main character's recollection of her family life, her oppressive school teachers, her friends' doomed inter-racial romance and her thoughts on race and identity. |
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According to a review in the College Language Association Journal, "The story is remarkable for its picture of a Guyanese village, but it requires a sequel to truly explore the life of this nameless narrator, who remains more an onlooker and reporter than the central persona of this piece."<ref>{{Cite web|last=Dance|first=Daryl Cumber|date=September 1998|title=Review of The Colored Girl in the Ring: A Guyanese Woman Remembers by Brenda Chester DoHarris|url=https://scholarship.richmond.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1142&context=english-faculty-publications|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-12-29|website=|publisher=College Language Association|pages=118–23}}</ref> A review from Kaieteur News describes it as "...a bitter-sweet narrative, one that is poignant and deeply moving, and made even more so by a feminist perspective that rightly celebrates the sustaining role of women in colonised societies."<ref>{{Cite web|date=2010-06-20|title=BOOK REVIEW|url=https://www.kaieteurnewsonline.com/2010/06/20/book-review-3/|access-date=2020-12-30|website=Kaieteur News|language=en-US}}</ref> |
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''Calabash Parkway'' (2005) is about Guyanese immigrant women in Brooklyn, New York, women who struggle against the odds to gain legal residence. |
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Doharris was a contributor for ''Walter A. Rodney: A Promise of Revolution'' by Clairmont Chung. 2012. ({{ISBN|9781583673287}})<ref>{{Cite web|last=Chung|first=Clairmont|title=Monthly Review {{!}} Walter A. Rodney: A Promise of Revolution|url=https://monthlyreview.org/product/walter_a_rodney/|access-date=2020-12-30|website=Monthly Review|date=30 September 2008 |language=en-US}}</ref> |
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Latest revision as of 04:39, 2 November 2024
Brenda Chester DoHarris (born 9 June 1946) is a writer and academic from Guyana.[1]
Career
[edit]Doharris was born in Georgetown, British Guiana and attended Bishops' High School on scholarship. Her education and experience growing up in rural Kitty were a major influence on her writing.[1]
She is a professor of English at Bowie State University in Bowie, Maryland,[2] and a graduate of Columbia University[2] and Howard University, where she received a B.A. (1970) then M.S. (1972) in English.[1] The first Guyanese woman to run in Guyana for office of presidency of a trades union,[citation needed] she became actively involved in the Guyanese political movement for democracy during the 1970s.[citation needed]
She has travelled widely in Africa, the Caribbean and China, where she attended the U.S./China Joint Conference on Women's Issues.[citation needed] Her area of scholarly interest is post-colonial women's literature.[citation needed]
Works
[edit]Her novel The Coloured Girl in the Ring: A Guyanese Woman Remembers (1997) is a fictional exploration of a young Black woman's coming of age in British Guiana of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Told against the backdrop of political and racial turbulence, the novel employs a first-person narrative format and proffers a well-defined portrait of the main character's recollection of her family life, her oppressive school teachers, her friends' doomed inter-racial romance and her thoughts on race and identity.
According to a review in the College Language Association Journal, "The story is remarkable for its picture of a Guyanese village, but it requires a sequel to truly explore the life of this nameless narrator, who remains more an onlooker and reporter than the central persona of this piece."[3] A review from Kaieteur News describes it as "...a bitter-sweet narrative, one that is poignant and deeply moving, and made even more so by a feminist perspective that rightly celebrates the sustaining role of women in colonised societies."[4]
Calabash Parkway (2005) is about Guyanese immigrant women in Brooklyn, New York, women who struggle against the odds to gain legal residence.
Doharris was a contributor for Walter A. Rodney: A Promise of Revolution by Clairmont Chung. 2012. (ISBN 9781583673287)[5]
Awards
[edit]Calabash Parkway won the Guyana Prize for Literature.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "DoHarris, Brenda". Oxford African American Studies Center. doi:10.1093/acref/9780195301731.013.73817 (inactive 1 November 2024). Retrieved 2020-12-30.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of November 2024 (link) - ^ a b "Preserving our literary heritage". Guyana Chronicle. 7 March 2010. Retrieved 2020-12-30.
- ^ Dance, Daryl Cumber (September 1998). "Review of The Colored Girl in the Ring: A Guyanese Woman Remembers by Brenda Chester DoHarris". College Language Association. pp. 118–23. Retrieved 2020-12-29.
- ^ "BOOK REVIEW". Kaieteur News. 2010-06-20. Retrieved 2020-12-30.
- ^ Chung, Clairmont (30 September 2008). "Monthly Review | Walter A. Rodney: A Promise of Revolution". Monthly Review. Retrieved 2020-12-30.
- ^ "Calabash Parkway: A Novel" Reviewed by Gokarran Sukhdeo, Guyana Journal
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