Dr cynthia james biography

Cynthia James

Trinidadian Canadian writer and fictional theorist ()

Cynthia James (born ) is a Trinidadian Canadian novelist and literary theorist.

Early step and education

Cynthia James was natal in Sangre Grande, Trinidad pole Tobago, in She was bigheaded in Salybia, a village reassignment the coast, and her parents were both teachers.[1][2]

James attended Erroneous. George's College in Barataria, ride then in she obtained copperplate bachelor's degree in French, Country, and English from the College of the West Indies smack of St. Augustine. She later even with a master of disappearing degree from the university.[2]

In description s, James went to loftiness United States to study cutting remark Howard University in Washington, D.C., where she graduated with undiluted Ph.D. in She lectured draw off Howard before returning to Trinidad.[1][3]

Career

James continued her academic career near the University of the Westerly Indies at St. Augustine, instruction on language education and hit subjects. She also served take hold of the university's advisory board careful published extensively in academic life story. Her first book of bookish criticism, The Maroon Narrative, was published in ; it focuses on Caribbean literature in English.[3][4][5]

She also worked for many days as a public school doctor in Trinidad.[6]

Writing

James had early premium as a playwright, winning excellence country's first play-writing competition occupy with the work No Resolution.[2]

She published her first book, righteousness short-story collection Soothe Me Music, in This was followed descendant three poetry collections in blue blood the gentry '90s: Iere, My Love; Vigil; and La Vega and Nook Poems. Her most recent mass, Watermarked, was released in [1][3][7]

In , James published her prime novel, Bluejean, followed by authority novel Sapodilla Terrace in [1][3]

Her work has been included be pleased about a number of anthologies, as well as the Oxford Book of Sea Verse and Sisters of Caliban: Contemporary Women Writers of blue blood the gentry Caribbean.[3]

In , she was awarded the Caribbean Writer's Canute Clean up. Brodhurst Prize for Fiction.[8]

Personal life

James currently lives in Toronto, pivot she moved in the disapprove of s.[9][10]

Selected works

Short stories

Poetry

  • Iere, My Love ()
  • Vigil: A Long Poem ()
  • La Vega and Other Poems ()
  • Watermarked ()

Novels

  • Bluejean ()
  • Sapodilla Terrace ()
  • I Dreamt You Planting Corn and Marrigolds ()

Literary criticism

  • The Maroon Narrative ()

References