Cocoa Woman by Johnny Coomansingh

Cocoa Woman by Johnny Coomansingh

Cocoa Woman: A Narrative About Cocoa Estate Culture in the British West Indies speaks of the discomfort, the pain, the suffering, and what a young man now speculates to be the abuse he endured while spending weekends and school vacations on his godmother's cocoa plantation. In retrospect, it was nothing short of child slave labor. He feels that he stomached slave labor just because he received a morsel to eat. The abuse was more than just physical. Unknowingly, he suffered psychological abuse.

Against the background of colonial domination and exploitation in Trinidad and Tobago, this book is poignant, direct, and to the point. It unleashes the spirit of the cocoa field and fully exposes the daily menial rounds of production, the never-ending chores, language idioms, village bacchanal, beliefs, cuisine, artifacts, folkways, and foibles that intertwined to constitute cocoa estate culture. All the characters in the story were given different monikers. Most of them are now dead.

Coomansingh, Johnny: - Born in the town of Sangre Grande, Trinidad, Johnny Coomansingh has authored the books: Sweet and Sour Trinidad and Tobago, Show Me Equality, and Seven Years on Adventist Street. Emerging from a colonial past, he explores and writes about the rich culture of the country. As a cultural geographer, he has found that Trinidad and Tobago provides fertile ground for a writer; a literal cornucopia of stories, folktales, histories, musical genres, and creativity. He holds a doctoral and a master's degree in geography from Kansas State University and a master's degree in communication science from Fort Hays State University, Kansas. In Trinidad, he has served as a high school teacher, an agricultural extension agent, and a corporate communications practitioner in the petroleum industry. In the United States he worked as a university professor in the field of geography and tourism. Coomansingh enjoys playing the cuatro, singing calypso, and writing poetry.

SKU	Nicht verfügbar
ISBN 13	9781950256761
ISBN 10	1950256766
Titel	Cocoa Woman
Autor	Johnny Coomansingh
Buchzustand	Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Toplink Publishing, LLC
Erscheinungsjahr	2019-02-13
Seitenanzahl	132
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.