The garlic in the cook-up rice: An interview with Portuguese-Guyanese artist Dennis de Caires
de Caires, Dennis and Parfitt, Clare (2025) The garlic in the cook-up rice: An interview with Portuguese-Guyanese artist Dennis de Caires. Journal of Indentureship and Its Legacies, 5 (1). pp. 1-20. ISSN 2634-1999
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Abstract
INTRODUCTION On 10th March 2025, I interviewed Dennis de Caires in London. He had flown to the UK the previous day from Barbados where he lives and works for some of the year. We had established a rapport over the preceding months via email, sharing our Portuguese-Guyanese family histories and finding points of connection. We are both descendants of the 31,628 Portuguese who arrived in what was then British Guiana under the system of indentureship between 1835 and 1882 (Collins-Gonsalves 2020: 42). My mother was born in British Guiana and, in 1969, emigrated to Britain, where I was later born. Dennis migrated to Britain as a teenager, with his parents, the following year. Although Dennis and I were not aware of each other until recently, he was friends with my grand-uncle, the ate Dave Martins – songwriter, singer and guitarist of seminal Guyanese band, The Tradewinds. It was fitting that we should finally be introduced to each other by the editors of the Journal of Indentureship and Its Legacies. The following interview emerged when two children of indentureship finally met one spring day in London.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Keywords: | Portuguese-Guyanese, Madeira, Windrush |
| Depositing User: | Karen Smith |
| Date Deposited: | 28 Jun 2026 14:06 |
| Last Modified: | 28 Jun 2026 14:06 |
| URI: | https://theplace.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/id/eprint/33 |
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