Selwyn Cudjoe

Selwyn Cudjoe (born 1 December 1943)

Selwyn Reginald Cudjoe was born in Tacarigua, Trinidad and Tobago, like several generations of his family,^[4][5] growing up on a sugar estate on which ancestors of his had worked.^[6] His parents were Lionel R. and Carmen Rose Cudjoe;^[1] his great-grandfather, Jonathon Cudjoe, was born in Tacarigua in 1833, the last year of formal slavery, and his great-grandmother, Amelia, was born in the same village in 1837.^[4][7]

Cudjoe attended Tacarigua EC School,

He has served as a director of the Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago and as the president of the National Association for the Empowerment of African People (Trinidad and Tobago).^[2]

Writing

Among the many books Cudjoe has written are Caribbean Visionary: A. R. F. Webber and the Making of the Guyanese Nation (2011),

Cudjoe has edited a number of titles including Caribbean Women Writers, an anthology of essays collected from the first international conference on Caribbean women writers, which he organised at Wellesley College in 1988,[12]^[13] and, most recently, Narratives of Amerindians in Trinidad and Tobago; or, Becoming Trinbagonian (2016),^[14][15][16] "a fascinating compendium of key documents on the narration of the Amerindian presence in Trinidad".^[17]

Cudjoe writes a weekly column in the TnT Mirror,

He has also written several documentaries,^[2] including Tacarigua: A Village in Trinidad^[19] and Caribbean Women Writers (1994), and hosted programmes for Trinidad and Tobago Television.^[3]

Selected bibliography

• Resistance and Caribbean Literature, Ohio University Press, 1982,
  ISBN 978-0821405734
• Movement of the People: Essays on independence, Calaloux Publications, 1983,
  ISBN 978-0911565225
• A Just and Moral Society, Calaloux Publications, 1984,
  ISBN 978-0911565027
• V. S. Naipaul: A Materialist Reading, University of Massachusetts Press, 1988,
  ISBN 978-0-87023-620-4
• Grenada: Two Essays, Calaloux Publications, 1990,
  ISBN 978-9991792224
• Tacarigua: A Village in Trinidad, Calaloux Publications, 1995,
  ISBN 978-0911565249
• Beyond Boundaries: The Intellectual Tradition of Trinidad and Tobago in the Nineteenth Century, University of Massachusetts Press, 2002,
  ISBN 978-1558493919
• Indian Time Ah Come in Trinidad and Tobago, Calaloux Publications, 2010,
  ISBN 978-0-911565-30-0^[20]
• The Role of Resistance in Caribbean Literature, Nabu Press, 2010,
  ISBN 978-1313385732
• Caribbean Visionary: A. R. F. Webber and the Making of the Guyanese Nation, University Press of Mississippi, 2011,
  ISBN 978-1617031977
• Preserving the Tacarigua Savannah: Respecting Our Heritage, 2013
• The Slavemaster of Trinidad: William Hardin Burnley and the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World, University of Massachusetts Press, 2018,
  ISBN 978-1625343703

• Caribbean Women Writers: Essays from the First International Conference, Calaloux Publications/University of Massachusetts Press, 1991,
  ISBN 978-0870237324
• Eric E. Williams Speaks: Essays on Colonialism and Independence, University of Massachusetts Press, 1993,
  ISBN 978-0870238888
• (With William E. Cain) C.L.R.James: His Intellectual Legacies, University of Massachusetts Press, 1995,
  ISBN 978-0870239076
• Narratives of Amerindians in Trinidad and Tobago; or, Becoming Trinbagonian, 2016,
  ISBN 978-0911565324.^[21]