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Edgar Mittelholzer, the Glossary

Edgar Austin Mittelholzer (16 December 1909 – 6 May 1965) was a Guyanese novelist.^[1]

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Guyanese people of World War II
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A. J. Seymour

Arthur James Seymour (12 January 1914 – 25 December 1989), or A. J. Seymour, was a Guyanese poet, essayist, memoirist, and founding editor of the literary journal Kyk-Over-Al.

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Afro-Caribbean people

Afro-Caribbean people or African Caribbean are Caribbean people who trace their full or partial ancestry to Africa.

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Afro-Trinidadians and Tobagonians

Afro-Trinidadians and Tobagonians (or just Afro-Trinbagonians) are people from Trinidad and Tobago who are of Sub-Saharan African descent, mostly from West Africa.

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Barbados

Barbados is an island country in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, in the Caribbean region next to North America and north of South America, and is the most easterly of the Caribbean islands.

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Berbice High School

Berbice High School is a school in New Amsterdam, Guyana.

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Big Jubilee Read

The Big Jubilee Read is a 2022 campaign to promote reading for pleasure and to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee of Elizabeth II.

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BIM (magazine)

BIM is a distinguished "little magazine" first published in Barbados in 1942.

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Birth name

A birth name is the name given to a person upon birth.

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British Council

The British Council is a British organisation specialising in international cultural and educational opportunities.

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British Guiana

British Guiana was a British colony, part of the mainland British West Indies.

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Caribbean Voices

Caribbean Voices was a radio programme broadcast by the BBC World Service from Bush House in London, England, between 1943 and 1958.

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Chinese Trinidadians and Tobagonians

Chinese Trinidadians and Tobagonians (sometimes Sino-Trinidadians and Tobagonians or Chinese Trinbagonians) are Trinidadians and Tobagonians of Han Chinese ancestry.

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Class discrimination

Class discrimination, also known as classism, is prejudice or discrimination on the basis of social class.

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Derbyshire

Derbyshire is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England.

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Derek Walcott

Sir Derek Alton Walcott OM (23 January 1930 – 17 March 2017) was a Saint Lucian poet and playwright.

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Discrimination based on skin tone

Discrimination based on skin tone, also known as colorism or shadeism, is a form of prejudice and discrimination in which people of certain ethnic groups, or people who are perceived as belonging to a different-skinned racial group, are treated differently based on their different skin tone.

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Elizabeth II

Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; 21 April 19268 September 2022) was Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from 6 February 1952 until her death in 2022.

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English people

The English people are an ethnic group and nation native to England, who speak the English language, a West Germanic language, and share a common ancestry, history, and culture.

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Eyre & Spottiswoode

Eyre & Spottiswoode was the London-based printing firm established in 1739 that was the King's Printer, and subsequently, a publisher prior to being incorporated; it once went by the name of Spottiswoode, Ballantyne & co.

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Farnham

Farnham is a market town and civil parish in Surrey, England, around southwest of London.

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Farnham Hospital

Farnham Hospital is a community hospital in Farnham, Surrey, England.

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Fort Kyk-Over-Al

Fort Kyk-Over-Al was a Dutch fort in the colony of Essequibo, in what is now Guyana.

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Frank Collymore

Frank Appleton Collymore MBE (7 January 1893 – 17 July 1980) was a Barbadian literary editor, writer, poet, stage performer and painter.

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George Lamming

George William Lamming OCC (8 June 19274 June 2022) was a Barbadian novelist, essayist, and poet. Edgar Mittelholzer and George Lamming are 20th-century novelists.

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Guyana

Guyana, officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, is a country on the northern coast of South America, part of the historic mainland British West Indies. Guyana is an indigenous word which means "Land of Many Waters". Georgetown is the capital of Guyana and is also the country's largest city.

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Guyana Chronicle

The Guyana Chronicle is a daily newspaper owned by the Guyanese government.

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Guyanese literature

Guyanese literature covers works including novels, poetry, plays and others written by people born or strongly-affiliated with Guyana.

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Handyman

A handyman (abbr. HNDMN), also known as a fixer, handyperson or handyworker, maintenance worker, repair worker, or repair technician, is a person who is skilled at a wide range of repairs, typically for keeping buildings, shops or equipment around the home in good condition.

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Harvill Secker

Harvill Secker is a British publishing company formed in 2005 from the merger of Secker & Warburg and the Harvill Press.

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Hogarth Press

The Hogarth Press is a book publishing imprint of Penguin Random House that was founded as an independent company in 1917 by British authors Leonard Woolf and Virginia Woolf.

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Indo-Trinidadian and Tobagonian

Indo-Trinidadians and Tobagonians or Indian-Trinidadians and Tobagonians are people of Indian origin who are nationals of Trinidad and Tobago, whose ancestors came from India and the wider subcontinent beginning in 1845 during the period of colonization.

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Jamaica Journal

The Jamaica Journal is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Institute of Jamaica.

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Jean Rhys

Jean Rhys, (born Ella Gwendoline Rees Williams; 24 August 1890 – 14 May 1979) was a British novelist who was born and grew up in the Caribbean island of Dominica.

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Journal of Postcolonial Writing

The Journal of Postcolonial Writing (from 1973 to 2004 titled World Literature Written in English) is a peer-reviewed academic journal publishing work that examines the interface between the economic forces commodifying culture and postcolonial writing of the modern era.

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Kaieteur News

Kaieteur News is a privately owned daily newspaper published in Guyana.

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Leonard Woolf

Leonard Sidney Woolf (–) was a British political theorist, author, publisher, and civil servant.

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Louise Bennett-Coverley

Louise Simone Bennett-Coverley or Miss Lou (7 September 1919 – 26 July 2006), was a Jamaican poet, folklorist, writer, and educator.

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Maida Vale

Maida Vale is an affluent residential district in West London, England, north of Paddington, southwest of St John's Wood and south of Kilburn, on the Edgware Road.

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Michael Gilkes (writer)

Michael Arthur Gilkes (5 November 1933 – 14 April 2020), Stabroek News, 19 April 2020. Edgar Mittelholzer and Michael Gilkes (writer) are 20th-century Guyanese writers.

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Multiracial people

The terms multiracial people or mixed-race people refer to people who are of more than two ''races'', and the terms multi-ethnic people or ethnically mixed people refer to people who are of more than two ethnicities.

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My Bones and My Flute

My Bones and My Flute: A Ghost Story in the Old-Fashioned Manner is a 1955 novel by Guyanese author Edgar Mittelholzer.

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New Amsterdam, Guyana

New Amsterdam (Nieuw Amsterdam) is the regional capital of East Berbice-Corentyne, Guyana and one of the country's largest towns.

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Olive skin

Olive skin is a human skin tone.

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Passing (racial identity)

Racial passing occurs when a person who is classified as a member of a racial group is accepted or perceived ("passes") as a member of another racial group.

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Peepal Tree Press

Peepal Tree Press is a publisher based in Leeds, England which publishes Caribbean, Black British, and South Asian fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama and academic books.

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Platinum jubilee

A platinum jubilee is a celebration held to mark an anniversary.

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Right-wing politics

Right-wing politics is the range of political ideologies that view certain social orders and hierarchies as inevitable, natural, normal, or desirable, typically supporting this position based on natural law, economics, authority, property, religion, biology, or tradition.

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