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- PoetryLeo's Poetical WorksEgbert Martin (Leo) · 1883A young poet of Georgetown, bedridden, has his Victorian meditations printed in London in the days of the sugar colony.Literature
- TaleAn Inquiry into the Animism and Folk-Lore of the Guiana IndiansWalter Edmund Roth · 1915The great collection of myths of the Amerindian peoples of the Guianas, compiled by a physician and magistrate of the British colony.Literature
- PoetryOver Guiana, CloudsA. J. Seymour · 1944A long poem flying over the history of Guiana, a milestone of Guyanese letters before independence.Literature
- NovelA Morning at the OfficeEdgar Mittelholzer · 1950A morning's work in Trinidad, where everyone measures themselves against others by colour and rank.Literature
- PoetryPoems of Resistance from British GuianaMartin Carter · 1954Verse written between the state of emergency and detention, when London reasserted control of its South American colony.Literature
- NovelBlack MidasJan Carew · 1958A diamond prospector from the Guyanese interior, caught between the fortune of the placer deposits and the closed doors of the bourgeoisie.Literature
- NovelTo Sir, With LoveE. R. Braithwaite · 1959Postwar London seen by a Black engineer who becomes a teacher in spite of himself in the East End.Literature
- NovelPalace of the PeacockWilson Harris · 1960A rising of the waters of the Guyanese forest, between dream and drowning, in the memory of the conquest.Literature
- NovelOther LeopardsDenis Williams · 1963A Guyanese in search of African roots in an imaginary Sudan, a rare Caribbean novel turned towards Africa.Literature
- TheatreCouvade: A Dream-Play of GuyanaMichael Gilkes · 1972A dream-play in which an Amerindian rite becomes the figure of a nation yet to be born, created for the first Carifesta.Literature
- Feature filmAggro SeizemanJames Mannas and Brian Stuart-Young · 1975A comedy about a bailiff in Georgetown, filmed with local actors in the first years of independence.Cinema
- NarrativeBlack TeacherBeryl Gilroy · 1976The postwar London schools, told by a teacher from British Guiana.Literature
- TheatreAlterationsMichael Abbensetts · 1978The night of a Guyanese tailor in London, between ambition, the couple and the loyalties of the workshop.Literature
- PoetryMan to PanJohn Agard · 1982A cycle written for the stage and for a steelpan orchestra, about the instrument that the poor of the Trinidad suburbs invented.Literature
- PoetryI is a Long Memoried WomanGrace Nichols · 1983A sequence of poems in which an African captive speaks, from the slave ship to the plantations of the West Indies.Literature
- PoetrySlave SongDavid Dabydeen · 1984The first book of a Guyanese poet, poems in Creole on the world of sugar, awarded a Commonwealth prize.Literature
- Short storiesBackdam PeopleRooplall Monar · 1985Stories of the life of Indian labourers on the cane plantations, written in their Creole.Literature
- NovelTimepieceJanice Shinebourne · 1986A young reporter moves between the village and the capital, in a Guyana independent amid conflict and censorship.Literature
- NovelDark SwirlCyril Dabydeen · 1988A Native American water spirit, peasants from India and an English scholar: three worlds of Guyana face to face.Literature
- PoetryBonesMahadai Das · 1988The last collection of an Indo-Guyanese woman poet, written far from her country, in urban America.Literature
- NovelThe Longest MemoryFred D'Aguiar · 1994A short novel of slavery in Virginia, told by a succession of voices, the first novel of a Guyanese poet.Literature
- NovelThe Ventriloquist's TalePauline Melville · 1997A novel of Amerindian Guyana, between a present-day affair and a forbidden love from the beginning of the century.Literature
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