Bertène Juminer

Juminer, Bertène (b. 1927). Guyanese doctor and writer who has combined a distinguished academic career in medicine with literature. His fiction deals especially, after Fanon, with the psychological complexities of decolonization, drawing on extensive personal experience in the Caribbean, and West and North Africa. Les Bâtards (1961) denounced neglect, mismanagement, and racial discrimination through the perspective of newly qualified doctors returning to French Guiana. Both Au seuil d'un nouveau cri (1963) and La Fraction de seconde (1990), set in Guadeloupe, explore modern Caribbean characters within narrative frames of the traumas of slavery. La Revanche de Bozambo (1968), also a radio play, humorously lampoons whites colonized by blacks.

[Bridget Jones]