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    The Longest Memory

    Fred D'Aguiar

    The tragic story of a rebellious, fiercely intelligent young slave who breaks all the rules: in learning to read and write; in falling in love with a white girl, the…

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    Year of Plagues: A Memoir of 2020

    Fred D'Aguiar

    In this piercing and unforgettable memoir, the award-winning poet reflects on a year of turbulence, fear, and hope.

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    For the Unnamed

    Fred D'Aguiar

    Fred D'Aguiar's new collection connects the condition of namelessness of a famous black jockey with a present-day need to give back to those lost souls the dignity of their names.

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    Year of Plagues: A Memoir of 2020

    Fred D'Aguiar

    In this piercing and unforgettable memoir, the award-winning poet reflects on a year of turbulence, fear, and hope.

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    Continental Shelf

    Fred D'Aguiar

    Traces a journey, across continents and from youth to maturity. This book moves from memories of childhood in Guyana, through a long elegiac exploration of the shootings at Virginia Tech…

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    The Rose of Toulouse

    Fred D'Aguiar

    The Rose of Toulouse is a book of geographies tracing where the poet has lived and taught, their histories, and his history as he travels away from who he was.

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    Translations from Memory

    Fred D'Aguiar

    Guyanese-British poet Fred D'Aguiar’s poetry has been shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. His new book wonderfully recreates moments of his and our wider history, making inclusions where exclusions have…

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    Letters to America

    Fred D'Aguiar

    The fourth Carcanet collection from Guyanese-British poet Fred D'Aguiar.

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    Bethany Bettany

    Fred D'aguiar

    And a little girl who is trying to make sense of it all. Bethany Bettany is five years old when her father dies and her mother leaves her to fend…

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    Children of Paradise

    Fred D'Aguiar

    Includes Rumpus interview with the author.

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    Children of Paradise

    Fred D'Aguiar

    A hardcover edition of this book was published in 2014 by Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. –Title page verso.

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    Testimony and the Trauma of Slavery in Fred D'Aguiar’s Novels

    Kevin Heyeres

    This work is an analysis of the fictional testimonies of some of Fred D'Aguiar’s outstanding novel protagonists who experienced the dreadful ordeal of the slave trade and who have undertaken…

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    The Imagery of Sea and Land in Fred D'Aguiar’s Feeding the Ghosts

    Marco Sievers

    Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Hannover (Englisches Seminar), course: HS Caribbean Literature and Culture, 26…

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    Fred D'Aguiar and Caribbean Literature: Metaphor, Myth, Memory

    Leo Courbot

    With Fred D'Aguiar and Caribbean Literature: Metaphor, Myth, Memory, Leo Courbot offers the first research monograph entirely dedicated to a comprehensive reading of the verse and prose works of Fred…

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    Caryl Phillips, David Dabydeen and Fred D'Aguiar: Representations of Slavery

    Abigail Ward

    This book focuses on representations of slavery in the works of contemporary British authors Caryl Phillips, David Dabydeen and Fred D'Aguiar, specifically exploring how racial anxieties in twenty-first century Britain…

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    Caryl Phillips, David Dabydeen and Fred D'Aguiar: Representations of Slavery

    Abigail Ward

    This book focuses on representations of slavery in the works of contemporary British authors Caryl Phillips, David Dabydeen and Fred D'Aguiar, specifically exploring how racial anxieties in twenty-first century Britain…

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    Encounters with James Baldwin

    Fred D'Aguiar, Paterson Joseph, Tade Thompson, Selina Brown, Zita Holbourne, Peter Kalu

    Celebrating the centenary of the birth of James Baldwin with this wide-ranging volume of short essays, reflections and poetry. This moving collection demonstrates the significant legacy of the writer and…

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    Arboretum for the Hunted

    Fred d'Aguiar

    There has always been an intense physicality to D'Aguiar's work, matched by a penchant for geographic groundedness and a biographical perspicacity, that has made him one of the finest writers…

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    Facing Diasporic Trauma: Self-Representation in the Writings of John Hearne, Caryl Phillips, and Fred D'Aguiar

    Fatim Boutros

    Slavery is a recurring motif in the writings of Fred D'Aguiar, John Hearne and Caryl Phillips. They narrate the fates of silenced victims who share the traumatic experience of racial…

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    The Making of Afro-Caribbean Consciousness and Identity in the Poetry of Linton Kwesi Johnson; David Dabydeen; and Fred D'Aguiar.

    Dilek Bulut Sar?kaya

    Having emerged from a struggle to give voice to marginalized groups in Britain, the poetry of Linton Kwesi Johnson, David Dabydeen, and Fred D'Aguiar helped define national identity and explored…

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    Black Plays: 3: Boy with Beer; Munda Negra; Scrape off the Black; Talking in Tongues; A Jamaican Airman Foresees his

    Paul Boakye,Tunde Ikoloi,Winsome Pinnock

    A third collection of plays by black authors: Boy With Beer by Paul Boakye, A Jamaican Airman Foresees His Death by Fred D'Aguiar, Munda Negra by Bonnie Greer, Scrape off…

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