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Kevin Jared Hosein’s latest novel, Hungry Ghosts, largely takes place in what seems a perversely unpromising, uneventful setting. “This particular barrack” – one of many in the area – “sat by its lonesome, raw and jagged as a yanked tooth in the paragrass-spangled stretch of meadow, beyond the canefield, beyond the rice paddies, the village
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When the first waves of Chinese graduate students arrived on American campuses in the early 1980s, they were excited at entering an unfettered learning environment. After the recent ravages of the Cultural Revolution, political science students had few inhibitions about studying what had gone wrong in China as they were growing up.
The context of British colonialism in the Caribbean meant little to the children of Trinidad, playing jab-jab for coins on carnival day