A. R. F. Webber
Albert Raymond Forbes Webber (1 January 1880 - 29 June 1932) was a Caribbean author from Trinidad and Tobago. He was author of Those That Be in Bondage: A Tale of Indian Indentures and Sunlit Western Waters (1917), a novel described as "a strange mixture of romantic sentimentality and protest against the treatment of East Indian indentured labourers on Guyanese plantations",[1] and Centenary History and Handbook of British Guiana (1931).
Further reading
- Selwyn R. Cudjoe, Caribbean Visionary: A. R. F. Webber and the Making of the Guyanese Nation, University Press of Mississippi.[2]
References
- ↑ Anthony Boxhill, "The Beginnings to 1929", in Bruce King (ed.), West Indian Literature, Macmillan, 1979, p. 42.
- ↑ "A critical biography of a major intellectual who struggled for justice against colonialism", University Press of Mississippi.
Dolores T. Macfarlane (1993), Kith and Kin: Of three Tobago families, [Makati, Metro Manila, Philippines]: D.T. Macfarlane
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