Dabydeen, David
About David Dabydeen
Biography & Bibliography (British Council)
Reviews
Wynner, J. "'Let We Go Guiana'." Caribbean Compass, no. 266, Nov. 2017
Hopkins, James. "Mungo the Master." The Guardian, 22 May 1999
Interviews
Ward, Abigail. "'Word People': A Conversation with David Dabydeen." Atlantic Studies, vol. 11, no. 1, 2014
Sikorska, Liliana, and Agnieszka Rzepa (eds.). "Pak's Britannica: An Interview with David Dabydeen." Eyes Deep with Unfathomable Histories: The Poetics and Politics of Magic Realism Today and in the Past, 2012
Eckstein, Lars. "Getting Back to the Idea of Art as Art: An Interview with David Dabydeen." World Literature Written in English, vol. 39, no. 1, 2001
Hand, Felicity. "A Talk with David Dabydeen." Links and Letters, vol. 2, 1995
Birbalsingh, Frank. "Interview." Kunapipi, vol. 12, no. 3, 1990
Criticism
Ahrens, Lisa. The Transformative Potential of Black British and British Muslim Literature: Heterotopic Spaces and the Politics of Destabilisation, 2019
Ilott, Sarah. "Gothic Immigrations: Kentish Gothic and the Borders of Britishness." Gothic Britain, Hughes and Heholt (eds.), 2018
Austen, Veronica J. "Self-Consumption and Compromised Rebirth in Dabydeen's Turner." Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry, vol. 3, no. 2, Apr. 2016
Jackson, Elizabeth. "Voyeurism or Social Criticism? Women and Sexuality in David Dabydeen's The Intended, The Counting House and Our Lady of Demerara." Women, vol. 26, no. 4, 2015
Macedo, Lynne (ed.). "Talking Words: New Essays on the Work of David Dabydeen." 2011
Darroch, Fiona. Memory and Myth: Postcolonial Religion in Contemporary Guyanese Fiction and Poetry, 2009
Ball, John Clement. "Shoring Up Britain: David Dabydeen's Oceanic Sublime." The Nation Across the World: Postcolonial Literary Representations, Trivedi et al. (eds.), 2007
Ghosh-Schellhorn, Martina. "Transitional Identity and its Indentured Emplacement: The Indo-Caribbean Experience." Postcolonialism and Autobiography, Hornung and Ruhe (eds.), 1998
Birbalsingh, Frank. Frontiers of Caribbean Literatures in English, 1996
Binder, Wolfgang. "David Dabydeen." Journal of West Indian Literature, vol. 3, no. 2, 1989
Works
Novels
Johnson's Dictionary (2013)
Our Lady of Demerera (2004)
A Harlot's Progress (1999)
The Counting House (1996)
Disappearance (1993)
The Intended (1991)
Poetry
Turner: New and Selected Poems (1994)
Coolie Mother (1991)
The Servant's Song (1990)
Coolie Odyssey (1988)
Slave Song (1984)
Essays/Articles/Non-Fiction/Short Stories
"The Art of Prejudice." New Statesman, vol. 148, no. 5489, 2019
"Derek Walcott in Conversation with David Dabydeen." Wasafiri, vol. 42, 2004
"Hogarth and the Canecutter." The Tempest and Its Travels, Hulme and Sherman (eds.), 2000
"On Not Being Milton: Nigger Talk in England Today." Landfall, vol. 43, no. 2, 1989
"On Writing Slave Song." Commonwealth Essays and Studies, vol. 8, no. 2, 1986
"Eighteenth-Century English Literature on Commerce and Slavery." The Black Presence in English Literature, Dabydeen (ed.), 1985
As editor: The Black Presence in English Literature, 1985
"Blacks in Britain." History Today, vol. 31, no. 9, 1981
Audio and Audiovisual Material