Across the Oceans Multi-Disciplinary Multi-Continental Essays

Daizal R. Samad and Ashwannie Harripersaud’s Across the Oceans: Multi-disciplinary Multi-continental Essays is a collection that traverses vast intellectual and geo-cultural territories. Samad’s incisive essays co-authored with Harripersaud interrogate themes of displacement identity and cultural memory from Caribbean Malaysian and Canadian perspectives. In almost surgical fashion the essays dissect postcolonial literature critique systemic failures in education and analyze societal issues like bullying. A central unifying meditation explores how fragmented individuals and societies seek wholeness through literature and memory. Challenging boundaries between genres and disciplines this volume offers no easy resolutions; rather it offers a profound uncomfortable engagement with truth legacy and the relentless pursuit of belonging. Professor Daizal R. Samad is a world-renowned scholar who has taught researched and written across five continents—North America Asia Africa the Middle East and South America. Honoured with Best Professorships on three continents he returned to Guyana in 2008 to serve as Director of The University of Guyana Berbice Campus and now teaches there. Author and editor of ten international books he is currently working on Behind the Seawall and a collection of short stories. A prolific scholar Professor Samad has published hundreds of articles and mentors young teachers several of whom are now published writers. Dr. Ashwannie Harripersaud earned her Doctorate in Education from Selinus University Italy and holds degrees from JAIN University India and The University of Guyana. A teacher for over two decades she has published twenty scholarly articles and multiple acclaimed books including Wholeness and Home in West Indian Literature and the Dictionary Series the latter earning the 2024 Blue Rose Book Award.