One of the events featured in the Bocas Lit Fest last weekend was Gordon Rohlehr in His Own Words. Rohlehr, who was born in Guyana and who lectured at UWI’s St Augustine campus for many years, was a scholar, critic, friend and mentor to many. He died on January 29. The Bocas event included three
THROUGHOUT his long and distinguished career, Gordon Rohlehr, who died on Sunday at 80, occupied a rare space as a Caribbean academic. He straddled two worlds: the world of the calypso and the world of the academy. But if there was one single argument he embodied it was the idea that there is, in fact,
WAYNE KUBLALSINGH SOME TIME in the mid-1980s, I went to visit Prof Gordon Rohlehr at his Tunapuna home. Out shot his son, Deke, from behind a bush, and attacked me. He shot at me, little squirts of water from a gun, and fled. He was Cowboy and I was Indian. Dike was just about nine,
PROFESSOR Emeritus Gordon Rohlehr, 80, died on Sunday, provoking a flood of tributes from many sectors of society hailing his scholarship of West Indian popular culture, especially calypso music. Judy Raymond, Newsday editorial consultant, in an online tribute said, "RIP, Professor Gordon Rohlehr. Calypso scholar, critic, essayist, teacher, lovely man." Gillian Moor, singer, said, "Farewell