Last week we paid attention to some elements of the power of the Amerindian presence in Guyanese culture. Included in that was mention of the contribution to the great store of Guyanese literature and the corpus of Guyanese Amerindian literature. In deference to the celebration of September (last month) as Amerindian Heritage month in Guyana, we round off this treatment of the subject with a brief, closer look at some of the contributions by Guyanese researchers, but in particular, the work of Mary Noel Menezes, RSM.
We mentioned that the Amerindian factor constitutes a substantial volume of Guyanese literature by both foreign and native authors who have provided wide and extremely interesting coverage of this subject. This coverage, of course, is varied and has been contributed to by scientists, botanists, geographers, explorers, administrators, artists, anthropologists and historians among