Bøker av Jerome Teelucksingh

This collection of Christian verse and poems covers a range of topics, including racism, silence, addiction, and Venezuela. The work serves as a reflection on both the past and present. 'Remembering, Reflection, and Rumination' also aims to capture various aesthetic aspects of culture and society. Jerome Teelucksingh's unique creativity shines through in this poetry collection, making it a compelling choice for a diverse audience of poetry enthusiasts.

"Awesome Americans" is a comic novel set in the Caribbean and the United States. It serves as the sequel to "Caribbean Football Victory." The narrative delves into themes of greed, adultery, hope, and shattered dreams. This work of fiction addresses various issues such as culture, sexuality, religion, crime, inaccurate medical diagnoses, and obesity.The comical characters, including Ali, Ritchie, Terrance, Dorothy, Francine, Vladimir, and Sumintra, grapple with adapting to their new environments. Most of these individuals exhibit eccentric traits. Some believed that migrating to the United States would offer a better life and a solution to their problems. However, the outcome was disillusionment and a longing to return to their homelands. Additionally, the novel highlights the significant contributions and presence of migrants in states like Florida and New York.

"Caribbean Football Victory: Surviving in Paradise" explores the tremendous impact that football (soccer) has had on Trinidad and Tobago (in the colonial and post-colonial eras) and the international influence of football and the media on Caribbean citizens. The novel emphasizes the significance of sport, religion, class, ethnicity, and culture in Caribbean identity. This is a story of bravery and optimism as Emmanuel and his descendants struggle to overcome stereotypes, discrimination, and poverty. Childhood and adolescent aspirations, coupled with family relationships, unfold in this unique tragicomedy that transcends geographical boundaries. The amusing characters, such as Wilfred, Delisa, Harriet, and Ritchie, are depicted as dysfunctional, eccentric, and superstitious. "Caribbean Football Victory" presents an exciting account of a lower-class family experiencing limited social mobility. Historic events, such as the qualifying World Cup game in 1989 and the visit of former President of the United States, Barack Obama, in 2010, are woven into this thrilling tale of defeats and victories.

This collection of short stories captures the experiences, struggles, challenges, and views of the working class in Caribbean and Latin American countries. The short stories are an attempt to present the voices on the fringe¿the marginalized and forgotten. The uniqueness of the book lies in the stories transcending language and geographical barriers. This is evident as the stories are based in different countries, including Martinique, Mexico, Honduras, Barbados, Guyana, Cuba, Belize, St. Vincent, Suriname, and Haiti.Folklore, superstition, humor, and local dialects are interwoven in these fictional accounts. These lively stories explore the themes of culture, superstition, sport, religion, love, gender, morals, ethnicity, class, and politics. For most of the stories, the setting in the rural areas of the Caribbean is a deliberate attempt to delve into the unique atmosphere that influences decisions and lifestyles. The characters display resilience, ingenuity, and attempt to understand their conditions, status, and society.

In A Fragmented Caribbean Empire, Jerome Teelucksingh examines some of the personalities and organizations that are often overlooked in analysis of the Caribbean region and its diaspora, and in particular the Indo-Caribbean presence in literature, migration and politics. Most of the existing scholarship on the Caribbean has tended to overlook this and other ethnic, religious and cultural minorities. The author utilizes interviews and delves into diverse archival sources to create a paradigm of a region with a rich historical past and a promising future. Research on indentureship and migration to North America and Britain elucidates the strong transnational ties between the Caribbean and other regions of the world, and shows how the Caribbean can be conceptualised as a global ¿empire¿. Behind this lies the author¿s unwavering conviction that the Caribbean should be acknowledged as important and given its rightful place in global history.

This interdisciplinary work includes lesser known events, individuals and organizations that have emerged from colonialism and contributed to the foundations of a Caribbean Empire.

Secular, Scarred and Sacred: Education and Religion among Blacks in Nineteenth-century Canada focuses on the paternal yet exclusionary role of Protestant Whites and their churches among refugee slaves and free Blacks in nineteenth-century Upper Canada.

This book illustrates the parallel struggles among Blacks in the US and the Caribbean for equality and greater political participation and equal treatment during the 1960s and 1970s.

Afro-Caribbean personalities coupled with trade unions and organizations provided the ideology and leadership to empower the working class and also hastened the end of colonialism in the Anglophone Caribbean.