Checking out me History Flashcards
1
Q
Dem…
A
Dem tell me
Dem tell me
2
Q
B-nd-g-…
A
Bandage up me with me own history
3
Q
Bl-nd me…
A
Blind me to me own identity
4
Q
D-ck…
A
Dick Whittington and he cat
5
Q
de cow…
A
de cow who jump over de moon
6
Q
But now…
A
But now I checking out me own history
7
Q
I c-rv-ng…
A
I carving out me identity
8
Q
Context
A
- Written in Guyanese Creole, deliberately
- He was a professeur with elequont standard English but deliberately wrote in Guyanase Creole to emphasis his non-conformist attitude
- Challenges Eurocentric views
- He grew up in Guyana under the British education system where he was filled with eurocentric views of history whilst being denied his own cultural identity
