Landscapes of Fiction: Global MultiMedia Edition journeys through the International Landscapes of Fiction that align with our global diasporas. It is the sequel to the pioneering LiTTscapes – Landscapes of Fiction of Trinidad and Tobago, the official national commemorative publication of the Jubilee (50) Anniversary of Independence.
LiTTscapes Landscapes of Fiction Christmas in FesTTscapes – one of the multicultural festivals represented in LiTTscapes – Landscape of Fiction Get Your Copy. 
WhiteHall for the People hosts launch of LiTTscapes LiTTributes and LiTTours in novel heritage exploration by Dr Kris Rampersad 
What is the Significance of This Scene? Journey through the capital city in a LiTTour and rediscover the world 
Sir Vidia Naipaul Lion House Hanuman House in A House for Mr Biswas from LiTTscapes Landscapes of Fiction 
Cricket Lovely Cricket Sprts heritage in games we play resonate with various cultural influences and practices explored in LiTTscapes – Landscapes of fiction from Trinidad and Tobago 
Literary Heritage Sites, Landmarks, Lifestyles
New: Featuring Notre Dame, Paris in our Landscapes of Fiction, Global Edition.
Explore with us in Journeys Through the Landscapes of Fiction of:
The Americas:
Canada
USA
The Caribbean
Trinidad and Tobago – Reads reviews of LiTTscapes – Landscapes of Fiction From Trinidad and Tobago here…
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LiTTribute to the Antilles – Antigua and Barbuda
LiTTribute To the Mainland Guyana
Europe
France
United Kingdom
England
Africa
Asia
India
Pacific
About LiTTscapes
LiTTscapes offer Novel Approaches to Sustainable Cultural Heritage Development & Education.
LiTTscapes, a full colour compendium of Trinidad and Tobago as represented in its fictional literature against actual photographs of the landscapes, lifestyles and living heritage, has been acclaimed as a groundbreaking initiative to stimulate our nation “to heal our self-schisms”.
“No one book can set out to achieve everything that a text can do for its people and its nation; but whatever you say one book can’t do, this one almost does,” says head of the Guyana Prize for Literature and former Vice Chancellor of the University of Guyana of LiTTscapes. It has also been hailed as a ‘labour of love’ in the Commonwealth Journal and ‘like a good fete” by Soca News UK.
LiTTscapes was conceived as a mechanism for expanding appreciation of national heritage and engaging and connecting cultures, restoring self appreciation and esteem to peoples of all ages through creative synergies while focusing on sustainable development of the tourism, heritage and education sectors. LiTTscapes is a pictorial, yet encyclopaedic compendium of the lifestyles, landscapes, architecture, cultures, festivals and institutions of Trinidad and Tobago as represented in more than 100 fictional works by some 60 writers from earliest to modern times, including both award winning Nobel laureates as well as lesser known writers.
It has been ‘translated’ and transmitted through interactive interfaces, exposition and performance as LiTTributes and through tours that offer unique insights into public places called LiTTours – Journeys Through the Landscapes of Fiction.
LiTTributes have already been enacted at launches nationally and in the wider Caribbean and our diasporas, LiTTributes to the Republic in Trinidad and Tobago, LiTTributes to the Mainland in Guyana, LiTTribute to the Antilles staged in March in Antigua; LiTTribute to LondonTTown among others. Upcoming LiTTributes2018 will focus on the Americas.
Publication of LiTTscapes which is also associated with the LiTTours – Journeys Through the Landscapes of Fiction of Trinidad and Tobago, has been widely endorsed as an effective means of engaging the national and international communities in appreciating our built, natural and cultural heritage towards enhancing social and cultural development and diversification and all to promote literacy and heritage appreciation among youths from ages 3 to 103.
Acclaimed as a groundbreaking encyclopaedic yet coffee-table style compendium of the lifestyles, landscapes, architecture, cultures, festivals and institutions of the Caribbean as represented in more than 100 fictional works by some 60 writers, LiTTscapes is geared to stimulate interest in reading, literacy and connect the Caribbean with other continents through synergies with the creative sectors.
Stating that LiTTscapes, though easy to read, is not easy to describe “given its multi-tasking nature and its wide reach,” Head of the Guyana Prize for Literature Professor Al Creighton has called it “a work of art…a documentary, a travelogue, a critical work with visual and literary power.”
He said, “It is a quite thorough artistic concept…a portrait and biography of the nation of Trinidad and…is attractively, neatly and effectively designed.” He noted that it reflects “a considerable volume of reading ranging from…the dawn of Caribbean literature” in such early writings as of Walter Raleigh, through the 1930s period of literary awakening with the Beacon group, Alfred Mendes, CLR James and others, to present.
“It takes us on a tour of the country, giving some exposure to almost every aspect of life…no tourist guide can give a better, more comprehensive introduction to Trinidad. It entices and attracts just as the glossy tourist literature.
“Photographs of several sections of Port-of-Spain are accompanied by the descriptions and literary excerpts: this treatment is given to the capital city, other towns, streets, urban communities, villages, historic buildings and places, vegetation, animals, institutions, culture and landscape. There is considerable visual beauty, what Derek Walcott calls “visual surprise” in his Nobel Lecture; an impressive coverage of social history, geography, and politics, but also a strong literary experience. It is a survey of Trinidad’s landscape and of its literature.”
Creighton noted Rampersad “has done the painstaking work analogous to that of a lexicographer, of sorting out their several hundred references to her subjects…. with memorable passages of real literary criticism” capturing the writings of VS Naipaul, Ian McDonald, Michael Anthony and others.
He said, “Rampersad’s Littscapes does achieve an innovative approach to literature in bringing it alive in the description of landscape, life, culture and people. It encourages people to take ownership of it, see themselves, their home or familiar places in it and accept it as a definer of identity.”
LiTTscapes is associated with customized LiTTours – Journeys Through the Landscapes of Fiction.
LiTTours – bring these ‘scapes’ to reality through interactive engagement with the national landscape. LiTTours are available on request and along any subject, theme or location route related to user interest as entrepreneurs, investors, industrialists or general cultural enthusiasts and have been held for CARIFESTA – the Caribbean Festival of the Arts, and the jubilee year of Independence through the capital and other cities and across the East, West, North, Central and South Trinidad and Tobago.
LiTTributes are events that blend holistic appreciation in the many dimensions of built, natural and cultural heritage with literary and creative talents. It identifies and connects people to diasporas and other international communities through ideas, skills and talents.
