The Return of Latchmini

The Return of Latchmini 1894 – Would the tides of misfortune sweep Latchmini into the depths of despair? Or will she ride its crest to triumph over the evils of capitalism and servitude, wiles of female jealousy, male supremacy, and emerging class struggles of the post-emancipation British empire?

This is the first novel in The Demerara Series – The Return of Latchmini. A journey that started in British India in the 1880s. A journey retraced by Bhanmattee who sought to establish the truth in the oral history and make lasting connections, past to present. A journey, the author followed as a researcher and an academic, finding commonalities between her maternal oral history with the archival records that Bhanmattee located in Guyana, Suriname, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and India with over 10 world tours and years of dogged fieldwork. Further, the author was able to triangulate the data uncovered with the many scholarly works done by so many Indo-Guyanese researchers and writers over the last seven or more decades.

S. T. Shah Roath uses historical scenarios to situate creative non-fiction narratives that bring to life the frequently forgotten. She uses multimedia formats to create for stage, film, and television. As an international journalist, community communications practitioner, and educator, Dr. Seeta Terry Shah Roath has spent time among jungle villages, cities, and towns across the globe observing, photographing, writing, and simply enjoying the pleasures of people at the grassroots of indigenous, rural, and urban societies. Her early hero was the cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead whose work inspired her early endeavors as a participant observer, researcher, and writer.