Arnold Itwaru

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Poet
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Arnold Harrichand Itwaru was born in Guyana in 1942 and immigrated to Toronto, Canada in 1969. His M.A. thesis completed in 1978 at York University is a sociological analysis of consciousness orientation and its implications in West Indian prose literature in English during the 1950s. It deals with the colonial experience in terms of the thematics of the works of six authors of the period. Itwaru also received a Ph.D. from York University in 1983. His thesis formed the basis for his work The Invention of Canada. Itwaru is the Program Director for the Caribbean Studies Program at New College, the University of Toronto.

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