Jan Rynveld Carew (born 24 September 1920 in Agricola, Guyana) is a
novelist, playwright, poet and educator. His works, diverse in form and
multifaceted, make Jan Carew an important intellectual of the Caribbean world.
His poetry and his first two novels, Black Midas and The Wild
Coast, were significant landmarks of the West Indian literature then
attempting to cope with its colonial past and assert its wish for autonomy.
Carew also played an important part in the Black movement gaining strength in
England and North America, publishing reviews and newspapers, producing programs
and plays for the radio and the television. His scholarly research drove him to
question traditional historiographies and the prevailing historical models of
the conquest of America. The way he reframed Christopher Columbus as an
historical character outside his mythical hagiography became a necessary path in
his mind to build anew the Caribbean world on sounder foundations.
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