Preserving the oral literature heritage

Students of English at the University of Guyana over the past two years have been going out into the field to collect samples of Guyanese oral literature.  This is a renewal of a similar activity that was the practice some years ago when students of Adeola James and Ian Robertson were engaged in field work.  Dr James herself has documented quite a collection in the UG Library while her colleague Victorine Grannum Solomon has published a collection of Guyanese proverbs.  Earlier this year