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A Harlot’s Progress

David Dabydeen

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A Harlot’s Progress reinvents William Hogarth’s famous prints of 1732 which tell the story of a whore, a Jewish merchant, a magistrate and a quack doctor bound together by sexual and financial greed. Dabydeen’s novel endows Hogarth’s characters with alternative potential lives, seeing beyond their predicament and redeeming them from their clichéd status as predators or victims.

David Dabydeen

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THE AUTHOR David
Dabydeen

Professor David Dabydeen is a Guyanese novelist, poet and academic. He was Guyana’s Ambassador to UNESCO from 1997 to 2010 and Guyana’s Ambassador to China from 2010 to 2015. David also served at the University of Warwick from 1984 to 2017 as Director of the Yesu Persaud Centre for Caribbean Studies and Professor of Postcolonial Literature.

Among his literary publications are Coolie Odyssey (Hansib, 1988), The Intended (Secker and Warburg, 1991) and The Counting House (Jonathan Cape ,1996). He co-edited with Brinsley Samaroo, India in the Caribbean (Hansib, 1988) and Across the Dark Waters: Ethnicity and Indian Identity in the Caribbean (Macmillan, 1996). David has also produced an edition for Macmillan of John Edward Jenkins’ Lutchmee and Dilloo (1877), the first novel on Indo-Guianese life. (From Ameena Gafour Institute)

Professor David Dabydeen is a Guyanese novelist, poet and academic. He was Guyana’s Ambassador to UNESCO from 1997 to 2010 and Guyana’s Ambassador to China from 2010 to 2015. David also served at the University of Warwick from 1984 to 2017 as Director of the Yesu Persaud Centre for Caribbean Studies and Professor of Postcolonial Literature.

Among his literary publications are Coolie Odyssey (Hansib, 1988), The Intended (Secker and Warburg, 1991) and The Counting House (Jonathan Cape ,1996). He co-edited with Brinsley Samaroo, India in the Caribbean (Hansib, 1988) and Across the Dark Waters: Ethnicity and Indian Identity in the Caribbean (Macmillan, 1996). David has also produced an edition for Macmillan of John Edward Jenkins’ Lutchmee and Dilloo (1877), the first novel on Indo-Guianese life. (From Ameena Gafour Institute)

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Country
Guyana, United Kingdom
Author
David Dabydeen
Publisher
Jonathan Cape
Nominating Library
National Library Service of Barbados - Barbados

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