Think Piece, Paul Keens Douglas.

Paul Keens-Douglas, although born in San Juan, Trinidad in 1942, spent his childhood in Grenada. Earning a Sociology degree and doing post graduate work at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica among his other successes have all contributed to the great writings and phenomenal performances Keen-Douglas has made, since 1974. As one writer puts it, "Paul Keens-Douglas celebrates out rich cultural amalgam and Caribbean landscapes like nobody else does. With a bubbling well of humour, humanity and heart, he reaches into the innermost crevices of ourselves and our cultures and brings us back to joy, feeling, to the real sweetness of our society." Keens-Douglas has brilliantly encompassed the honest and broad spectrum of Caribbean life in his piece entitles, "Tanti at the Oval." Through his use of humour, he has managed to address issues of gender ideology, Caribbean disunity and pride and identification with one's homeland, which to reader or listener, truly paints the picture in which Keens-Douglas wished to portray, that is, one of a true Caribbean experience.

Through humorous statements, Paul Keens-Douglas successfully highlights a significant issue of gender ideology. This is brought up in the piece as his friends suggestively speak about Tanti Merle being the speakers wife, and referring to her 'having a will' even though she was 65 years old and obviously, significantly older than the speaker himself. This attempt by 'Boysie and the boys' was used to propose that even though Tanti and the speaker were not married, in the event that they were the marriage would have been for monetary purposes and not love. Feminist sociologists over the years have done studies and have written about the issue of gender ideology. Gender ideology refers to attitudes regarding the appropriate roles, rights and responsibilities of men and women in society.

Another issue which was brought up by the speaker was that of Caribbean disunity. In the West Indies, cricket...