Suriname

The Republic of Suriname, more commonly known as Suriname or Surinam, (formerly known as Netherlands Guiana and Dutch Guiana) is a country in northern South America, in between French Guiana to the east and Guyana to the west. The southern border is shared with Brazil and the northern border is the Atlantic coast. The most southern parts of the borders with Guyana and French Guiana are disputed (upper Corantijn and Marowijne rivers—the map shows the Guyana and French Guiana versions of the border).

Further Reading

• V.S. Naipaul, The Middle Passage; impressions of five societies: British, French and Dutch, in the West Indies and South America. London: Deutsch, 1962.
• R.A.J. van Lier, Frontier society: a social analysis of the history of Surinam. Translated by M.J.L. van Yperen. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1971.
• Henk E. Chin and Hans Buddingh, Suriname: Politics, Economics & Society. London : Pinter, 1987.
• Richard Price and Sally Price; with musical transcriptions by Kenneth M. Bilby, Two Evenings in Saramaka: Afro-American Tale-telling in the Surinam Rain Forest. Chicago, Ill., : The University of Chicago Press, 1991.
• Michel Szulc-Krzyzanowski (photography), Michiel van Kempen (text), Deep rooted words; ten storytellers and writers from Surinam (South America). English translation by Sam Garrett. Amsterdam: Voetnoot, 1992.
• Mark Plotkin, Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice: an ethnobotanist searches for new medicines in the Amazon rain forest. New York: Viking Penguin, 1993.
• Edward M. Dew, The trouble in Suriname, 1975-1993. Westport, C.T.: Praeger, 1994.
• Roy Tjin and Els Schellekens, The Guide to Suriname. Amsterdam: Brasa Publishers, 1999.
• Rosemarijn Hoefte and Peter Meel (eds.), Twentieth-century Suriname: continuities and discontinuities in a new world society. Kingston: Ian Randle/Leiden: KITLV Press, 2001.
• Richard Price, First Time: The Historical Vision of an Afro-American People. 2nd. ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002.
• Laura Samsom Rous and Hans Samsom, Tree of forgetfulness / Boom der vergetelheid / L'arbre de l'oubli / A bon fu frigiti. Amsterdam: KIT Publishers, 2003.
• Michiel van Kempen: Een geschiedenis van de Surinaamse literatuur. Breda: De Geus, 2003, (2 vols.).