Ladoo, Harold Sonny

About Harold Sonny Ladoo

Biography (Asian Heritage in Canada)

Such, Peter. “The Short Life and Sudden Death of Harold Ladoo.” Bim, 1978

Lee, Dennis. “The Death of Harold Ladoo.” boundary2, 1976

Reviews

Roffey, Monique. “No Pain Like This Body by Harold Sonny Ladoo, Book of a Lifetime.” The Independent, 10 Jul. 2010

Chariandy, David. “The Life of Harold Sonny Ladoo.” Canadian Literature, vol. 188, 2006

Singh, Amritjit. “No Pain like This Body.” World Literature Today, vol. 62, no. 2, 1988

Criticism

Galbo, Sebastian. “’A Great Need to Defecate’: Excremental Angst in Harold Sonny Ladoo’s Yesterdays.” Journal of West Indian Literature, vol. 28, no. 2, 2020

Ward, Abigail. “Indian-Caribbean Trauma: Indian Indenture and Its Legacies in Harold Sonny Ladoo's No Pain Like This Body.” Postcolonial Traumas: Memory, Narrative, Resistance, Ward (ed.), 2015

Ramraj, Victor J. “Language and Perception: Reinstating the Individual in Postcolonial Literary Studies.” Vernacular Worlds, Cosmopolitan Imagination: Readings in Post/Colonial Literatures and Cultures in English, Stephanides and Karayanni (ed.), 2015

Khan, Shalini. “Harold Sonny Ladoo's No Pain like This Body: The Ramayana and Indo-Caribbean Experience.” Wasafiri, vol. 28, no. 2, 2013

Moslund, Sten Pultz. “The Presencing of Place in Literature: Toward an Embodied Topopoetic Mode of Reading.” Geocritical Explorations: Space, Place, and Mapping in Literary and Cultural Studies, Tally (ed.), 2011

Ramraj, Victor J. “The Distinctive Indo-Caribbean Art and Voice of Harold Sonny Ladoo.” The Arts Journal, vol. 6, no. 1-2, 2010

Coly, Adama. “The West Indian Woman as a Scapegoat in Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) and Harold Sonny Ladoo's No Pain Like This Body (1972).” Women's Studies, Diasporas and Cultural Diversity: Essays in Literary Criticism and Culture, Kandji (ed.), 2008

Morgan, Paula and Valerie Youssef. “Chapter 6: Gendered Inscriptions of Indo-Caribbean Family Violence.” Writing Rage: Unmasking Violence Through Caribbean Discourse, 2006

Firth, Kathleen. “Resisting the Bible and the Whip: Trinidad's East Indians and the Canadian Presbyterian Missions.” Colonies, Missions, Cultures in the English Speaking World: General and Comparative Studies, Stilz (ed.), 2001

Salick, Roydon. “The Bittersweet Comedy of Sonny Ladoo: A Reading of Yesterdays.” ARIEL, vol. 22, no. 3, 1991

Srivastava, Aruna. “Images of Women in Indo-Caribbean Literature.” Indenture & Exile: The Indo-Caribbean Experience, Birbalsingh (ed.), 1989

Wyke, Clement H. “Harold Ladoo's Alternate Worlds: Canada & Carib Island.” Canadian Literature, vol. 95, 1982

Works

Novels

Yesterdays (1974)

No Pain Like This Body (1972)