Jan Carew
Template:TOCnestleftJan Carew Emeritus Professor Northwestern University, was born in Agricola-Rome, Guyana, South America on September 24, Novelist, poet, playwright, educator, Carew describes himself as "an inveterate wanderer for whom travel is like the breath of life." In addition to his education at Howard and Western Reserve Universities in the United States, he also studied at the Charles University in Prague, Czechoslovakia ()and the Sorbonne in France.
He was first married to novelist, Sylvia Winter Carew of Jamaica, then to Joy Gleason Carew, a linguist and Russian specialist[1].
Black Studies pioneer
Carew was a leader in the field of Pan- African Studies and Black Studies. Jan Carew has served as lecturer, professor or program director at Princeton, Rutgers, George Mason, Hampshire, Lincoln and London Universities.
Jan Carew moved to Louisville in Fall as a Visiting Scholar-in-Residence with the Pan-African Studies Department. An authority on fields ranging from Third World studies to Caribbean literature to race relations, he has also served as an advisor to the heads of state of numerous nations on the African continent and in th
Jan Carew &#; Author of Black Midas
Jan Carew was born in in Agricola Rome, a liberated village near the Guyana coast, where his ancestral blood-seeds had sprouted. Describing his home, he said, “Agricola was a place of polyglot races – Creoles, Africans, Highland Scots, Amerindians, Sephardic Jews and English, Dutch, French, Maltese, and Azorean castaways. Then, there were Chinese, East Indians, Hindus, Shiite and orthodox Moslems. ” Carew was blessed, he claimed, with “the bloods of the most persecuted peoples on earth.”
His maternal grandfather was the village school master. His paternal grandfather was a ship’s captain who plied between the Caribbean islands and South American mainland. He was also a part-time artist who painted designs on carriages in the horse-and-buggy days.
Carew lived abroad most of his life. In the course of living as a writer, painter, broadcaster, actor, activist and educator, Carew lived in England, France, Holland, Spain, Ghana, Canada, Mexico, and then settled in Louisville, Kentucky in the US until his passing in December
He was educated at the Wesleyan school in Agric
Remembering Jan Carew: the gentle revolutionary
A book launch at the Claudia Jones Organisation in Hackney for two books by the late Jan Carew was an inspirational event.
Jan Carew was a giant of a man &#; an artist, an author, a poet, a teacher and he was very tall too. The occasion was the publication of two books, one a poetry anthology (Return to Streets of Eternity) and the other, an autobiography of key moments in Jan’s life (Episodes in My Life: the Autobiography of Jan Carew), documented by his loving and committed wife Joy Carew.
The event was compered by Chris Searle, a friend of Jan Carew, who also helped collect together the poetry for Return to Streets of Eternity (Smokestack Books). You can read his introduction to the book here. Joy Carew gave a presentation on Jan, which featured clips from videos (see links below), sound files and archive pictures which provided a snapshot of Jan’s varied and long life.
Below we reproduce excerpts from Joy Carew’s and Chris Searle’s speeches on the night.
Joy Carew
‘Sivanandan came up with this wonderful term, “The gentle revolutionary” and for many people who knew Jan later in his life this was a quiet,
Jan Rynveld Carew papers
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Dr. Joy Gleason Carew donated the Jan Rynveld Carew papers to the University of Louisville Archives and Special collections in The papers document his intersecting careers in scholarship, activism, journalism, teaching, and written and visual art forms from until his death in Based on the papers’ original organization by Dr. Joy Gleason Carew, the collection is arranged in seven series: Academia, Research, Correspondence, Activism, Writing, Works By Others, and Audiovisual.
Series I, Academic Teaching and Administration, holds records of courses developed by Professor Carew, including seminal courses in Pan African Studies. This series also includes records of his administrative work, and correspondence with colleagues and students at universities where he taught: Princeton, Rutgers, Lincoln and Northwestern where he retired as Emeritus Professor of African American Studies before coming to Louisville and continuing to teach in Liberal Studies at the University of Louisville.
Series II, Research
Series III, Correspondence, includes his correspondence with a range of academics, artists,
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