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.

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ISBN 13	9781950256761
ISBN 10	1950256766
Title	Cocoa Woman
Author	Johnny Coomansingh
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Toplink Publishing, LLC
Year published	2019-02-13
Number of pages	132
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.