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Guyana: On Being Authentic

Categories: Caribbean, Guyana, Citizen Media, Ideas, Literature, Migration & Immigration

“I spent the first 19 years of my life in Guyana. I have now lived away from Guyana for a longer time than I lived there. Does that make me an inauthentic Guyanese?”: Signifying Guyana [1] responds to an argument that writers “who eventually opt to live and work abroad, cannot…lay claim to a truly Guyanese sensibility.”