{"title":"Jan Carew","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eJan Carew\u003c\/strong\u003e (1920-2012) was born in a village in Guyana, and educated in the US, at Charles University in Prague and the Sorbonne in Paris. A prolific author of fiction, history, essays, children’s books, plays and poetry, his books include \u003cem\u003eBlack Midas, The Last Barbarian, Rape of Paradise\u003c\/em\u003e and\u003cem\u003e The Guyanese Wanderer\u003c\/em\u003e.","products":[{"product_id":"return-to-streets-of-eternity","title":"Return to Streets of Eternity","description":"\u003cem\u003eReturn to Streets of Eternity\u003c\/em\u003e brings together, for the first time, poems by \u003cstrong\u003eJan Carew \u003c\/strong\u003eone of the great Black intellectuals of our times, written during a lifetime of passionate engagement in anti-colonial, civil rights, black power and liberation movements, including many previously unpublished tributes to nineteenth and twentieth-century revolutionary leaders and to writers like Martin Carter, Dennis Brutus, Agostinho Neto, Andrew Salkey, Alejo Carpentier and Mumia Abu-Jamal.","brand":"Smokestack Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":5781319749,"sku":"9780992740986","price":9.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/Smokestack_Books_-_Return_to_streets.jpg?v=1752239834"},{"product_id":"episodes-in-my-life","title":"Episodes in My Life","description":"Towards the end of a long and astonishingly full life, whose scope and variety most of us can only dream about, \u003cstrong\u003eJan Carew\u003c\/strong\u003e began writing his memoirs. A global, multifaceted man, they cover his multiple lives as Guyanese\/Caribbean novelist, anti-colonial and antiimperialist activist, the early shaper of Black Studies in the United States, actor and playwright, painter, agricultural evangelist, advisor to Heads of State in Africa and the Caribbean and theoretician of the Columbian origins of racism in the Americas. They take in his political awakening in colonial British Guiana, his sojourns in Communist Eastern Europe, his life as a writer in London, Paris and Amsterdam, his return to the Caribbean in the nationalist 1960s and his presence as a reporter in Cuba at the time of the revolution, his years in Africa and role as an advisor to Nkrumah in Ghana and his restless coming to rest in North American academia and the struggle for Black self-definition.","brand":"Peepal Tree Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":5967947013,"sku":"9781845232450","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/Peepal_Tree_-_Episodes_in_my_Life.jpg?v=1752241531"}],"url":"https:\/\/inpressbooks.co.uk\/collections\/jan-carew-1\/jan-carew.oembed","provider":"Inpress Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}