Jan Shinebourne

Jan Lowe Shinebourne (born 1947) is a Guyanese novelist who was born in Canje, Berbice, Guyana and emigrated to London, England in 1970.^[1]

In Timepiece (1986) Sandra Yansen must leave behind the close ties of family and village when she goes away to take up a job as a reporter in Georgetown. The novel won the Guyana Literary Prize for a first work of fiction.^[1]

Her novel, The Last English Plantation (1988), is set within a labyrinth of political chaos in British Guiana in the 1950s. In the novel June Lehall has to confront her mixed Indian-Chinese background in a situation of heightened racial tensions, the loss of her former friends when she wins a scholarship to the local high school, the upheaval of the industrial struggle on the sugar estate where she lives, and the arrival of British troops as Guyana explodes into political turmoil.

References

^ ^a ^b Paola Marchionni, 'Shinebourne, Jan(ice) [Lo]', in Lorna Sage, ed., The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English, Cambridge University Press, 1999

Gleerups “Other Englishes Literature”, Lennart Peterson, 2005

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