DISCOVERING
WEST INDIAN LITERATURE IN ENGLISH
A
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
COMPILED
AND SELECTED BY JOHN ROBERT LEE
DEDICATED TO PATRICIA CHARLES, SAINT LUCIA 1937-2010
and REX NETTLEFORD, JAMAICA 1933-2010.
Castries,
St. Lucia 2014
DISCOVERING
WEST INDIAN LITERATURE IN ENGLISH
SELECTED
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Compiled
and selected by John Robert Lee
DEDICATED TO PATRICIA CHARLES, SAINT LUCIA
1937-2010 and REX NETTLEFORD 1933-2010.
Contents:
Introduction
1.
West Indian Authors – Prose writers, mainly novelists, with selected
works listed.
2.
West Indian Authors – poets, a Name Index.
3.
Selected Anthologies of West Indian Literature.
4.
West Indian Literary Journals.
5.
Readings on West Indian Literature in English.
6.
The Historical, Cultural and Social Background.
Introduction
This
bibliography presents selected texts of Caribbean writing in English and of
works on the background to the writing. Many of these represent the first writers and
writings that identified and defined West Indian Literature. They are familiar
names in the now established West Indian Canon. Many new writers and
distinctive works have emerged since the early days, a number of whose names
and works are listed. This bibliography is aimed at those
discovering the Literature and will help them to identify the major writers, the
now-classic authors and talented new voices. The selected readings give
a broad chronological background to the history of the literature, and its
cultural and historical setting. The anthologies provide a perspective on the span
of writers and their concerns. The range of anthologies – from the classic
first compilations to the more recent – also offer a historical view of the
development of the literature.
Only Prose and Poetry writers are listed.
No Drama is cited though a number of the writers are also playwrights. Selected
works of the novelists are given (including some of their non-fiction writing,)
while only a name index is provided for the poets. Years of births and deaths are given where
identified, and the birth place of all writers is listed. The citations are of
book texts. No periodical references are provided.
There are many web sites dedicated to West
Indian writing in English and the other languages of the region. A Google search
of “West Indian Literature” or “Caribbean Literature” will find them. National Bibliographies
can be located that list writers and writing by country of origin. Information on individual writers can also be
found on the Internet. Numerous blogs
discuss Caribbean Literature and related issues.
Peepal
Tree Press (www.peepaltreepress.com)
is the foremost publisher of Caribbean Literature at this time. Based in Leeds,
UK, they are republishing classic West Indian works as well as prose and poetry
by new writers. www.caribbeanreviewofbooks.com
publishes excellent, readable reviews of new writing. Ian Randle Publishers (www.ianrandlepublishers.com) of
Kingston, Jamaica is the leading publisher of scholarly works including some
poetry and prose. The University of the West Indies Press (www.uwipress.com) is also increasing its
publication of academic texts.
In Section 5, Readings on West Indian
Literature in English, a chronological listing by publication date is generally
followed. However in some cases, books by
certain authors (eg Gordon Rohlehr) or on
certain authors (eg Lamming, Walcott), are kept together for ease of reference.
A chronological listing is also generally followed in Sections 3 (Anthologies)
and 6 (Historical etc background). For section 4, the listing of major
Caribbean periodicals, the listing is also chronological, by date of first
issue. Sections 1 and 2 (the writers) use an alphabetical listing by authors’
surnames.
Full citations are provided in Sections 3,
5, 6. Section 4 is briefly annotated. In
section 1, Authors’ names, dates of birth (and death where necessary), Place of
birth (and residence in some cases) and titles of selected works with dates of
first and, in some cases other, editions, are given. Section 2 is a Name Index only
of poets, with their birth (and death) dates, and place of birth (and in some
cases, residence.)
Regarding selection of the newest writers,
the criterion used was that they should have published work recognized as
significant by their peers, and were themselves recognized by their peers as
significant new voices. The past twenty years has seen much publication by new
and talented Caribbean writers. Many of these live in the diaspora, but many
have also chosen to remain and write and work at home. Their recognition and
inclusion ensures that the shaping of the growing Caribbean Canon remains
alive, relevant and exciting to follow. Journals like the Caribbean Review of
Books proved invaluable as a source of information on new writers and writing,
including both the creative and critical works. In this digital time, the
Internet and Google were also invaluable in tracking down further information
on writers and their works. Because this is only a select bibliography, users
and researchers must use Internet search engines to follow paths suggested
here.
While this bibliography is not a
comprehensive compilation, it is hoped that it provides a good general up-to-date survey of the literature of the
Anglophone Caribbean. As with all bibliographies of this kind, it will need to
be regularly updated. Readers are welcome to make comments and suggestions to
the compiler at:
1:
Lisa Allen-Agostini 19..
Trinidad. The
Chalice Project. Macmillan Caribbean, 2008;
co-
editor, with
Jeanne Mason, of Trinidad Noir. Akashic Books, 2008.
Phyllis S. Allfrey (1908-1986).
Dominica. The Orchid
House, 1953; It falls into place: the stories of Phyllis Shand Allfrey, 2004.
Michael Als 19-. Trinidad. The
Underclass, 2006; Manchild, 2007?/8?; Children’s
Feet, 2009.
Michael Anthony 1932 - . Trinidad. The
Games were coming, 1963, 2005; The Year in San
Fernando, 1965; Green days by the river, 1967;
and
many other publications.
Robert Antoni 1958- . Trinidad. Divina Trace, 1991; Blessed is the
fruit, 1998; My
Grandmother’s Erotic Folktales, 2000;
Carnival, 2005;
As flies to whatless boys, 2013.
Editor, with
Bradford Morrow, The Archipelago: new writing from and about the Caribbean,
1996.
Michael Aubertin 1948-. St. Lucia. Neg Maron: freedom
fighter, 2000.
Kevin Baldeosingh 19…-. Trinidad. The
Autobiography of Paras P., 1996; Virgin’s triangle, 1997; The Ten Incarnations
of Adam Avatar, 2005.
Lindsay Barrett. 1941-. (writes poetry as
Eseoghene). Jamaica. The State of Black desire, 1966; Song for
Mumu, 1967, 1974; Veils of Vengeance Falling,
1985.
Angela Barry. Bermuda. Endangered
Species and other stories, 2003.
Valerie Belgrave. Trinidad. Ti
Marie, 1988.
Jacqueline Bishop 19-. Jamaica. The River’s
Song, 2008.
Neil Bissoondath 1955- . Trinidad A Casual
Brutality, 1988; The Innocence of Age, 1992;
The Worlds within
her, 1998; Digging up the mountains - stories, 1985; On the Eve of Uncertain
Tomorrows - stories, 1990.
E.R. Braithwaite 1920 -. Guyana. To Sir with love,
1959; Paid servant, 1973; Choice of
straws, 1965; Honorary White, 1975.
Erna Brodber 1940 -. Jamaica. Jane and
Louisa will soon come home, 1980; Myal,
1988; Louisiana, 1994; The Rainmaker’s
Mistake, 2007.
Wayne Brown (1944-2009). Trinidad. The Child of the Sea:
stories and remembrances, 1989;
Landscape with Heron: stories and remembrances, 2000. The Scent of
the past: stories and remembrances,
2011; Biography: Edna Manley: The private
years (1900-1938), 1975.
Tobias S. Buckell 1979-. Grenada/USA. Crystal Rain, 2006;
Ragamuffin, 2007; Sly Mongoose,
2008; Halo: The Cole Protocol, 2008; Tides from the New Worlds:
short stories, 2009;
[with Karen
Traviss and Eric Nyland] Halo Evolutions: Essential Tales of the Halo Universe,
2009.
Timothy Callender (1946-1989).
Barbados. It so happen,
1975; How music came to the Ainchan
people, 1979.
Hazel D. Campbell 1940- . Jamaica. The Rag Doll and
Other stories, 1978; Women’s Tongue,
1985;
Singerman, 1992.
Jan Carew 1920- . Guyana . Black
Midas, 1958, 2009; The Wild Coast, 1958, 2009;
The Last Barbarian, 1961.
Margaret Cezair-Thompson 19-. Jamaica. The True History of Paradise,
1999; The Pirate’s
Daughter, 2008.
Colin Channer 1963-. Jamaica. Waiting
in vain, 1998; Satisfy my soul, 2002; Passing through (stories), 2004; Editor,
Iron Balloons: Hit Fiction from Jamaica’s Calabash Writer’s Workshop. Akashic
Books, 2006.
Charles, Cornell, 19-, St. Lucia. The
Provident family of Baxter’s Yard, 2012; In pursuit of running water, 2009.
David Chariandy 1969-. Trinidad/Canada. Soucouyant, 2007.
Willi Chen 1934- . Trinidad. King
of the Carnival and other stories, 1988, 2001.
Austin Clarke 1934 - . Barbados . The
Survivors of the Crossing, 1964; Amongst thistles
and thorns, 1965; The Meeting Point, 1967; Storm of Fortune, 1973;
The Bigger Light, 1975; Growing up stupid under the Union Jack, 1980, 2002;
Pigtails ‘n’ Breadfruit: A Barbadian memoir, 2000; The Polished Hoe, 2002; The
Origin of Waves, 2003; The Prime Minister, 2004; The Meeting Point: The Toronto
Trilogy, 2005; More, 2009; and many other novels and non-fiction writing.
Michelle Cliff 1946-. Jamaica. Abeng,
1984; The Land of Look Behind, 1980; Bodies of
Water, 1990; No telephone to
heaven, 1996; The Sore of a Million Items, 1998; Everything is now: New and
Collected Stories, 2009.
Merle Collins 1950-. Grenada. Angel,
1987; The Colour of Forgetting, 1995;
Frank Collymore (1893-1980). Barbados. The Man who loved attending funerals,
1993.
Dathorne, Oscar R. (1934-2007). Guyana. Dumplings in the Soup, 1963; The
Scholar-man, 1964;
Dele’s child, 1986.
Kwame Dawes 1962-. Jamaica/Ghana. A Place to hide and other
stories, 2002; She’s gone,
2007.
Bivouac, 2010. And other non-fiction and poetry.
Neville Dawes (1926-1984). Jamaica. The Last Enchantment,
1960, 2009; Fugue and other
writings, 2009.
Ralph De Boissiere (1907-2008). Trinidad. Crown Jewel, 1952; Rum and Coca
Cola, 1956; No
Saddles for Kangaroos, 1964; Call of the
Rainbow, 2007.
Jean D’Costa 1937 - . Jamaican. Sprat
Morrison, 1972; Escape to Last Man Peak, 1975;
Voice in the Wind, 1978.
Fred D’Aguiar 1960-. Guyana The
Longest Memory 1994; Dear Future, 1996; Feeding
the
Ghosts, 1999; Bethany Bettany, 2003.
Herbert G. De Lisser (1878-1944). Jamaica. Jane: a story of Jamaica, 1914; Jane’s
Career: a story of
Jamaica, 1914; The White Witch of
Rosehall, 1929.
Mcdonald Dixon 1944-. St. Lucia. Season of Mist,
2000; Misbegotten, 2009; Careme and
other stories, 2009; Saints of Little
Paradise:Book One,
2012.
Geoffrey Drayton 1924- . Barbados . Christopher,
1959; Zohara, 1961.
Zee Edgell
1940- . Belize. Beka
Lamb, 1982; In times like these, 1991; The Festival
of San Joaquin, 1997; Time and the river, 2007.
Ramabai Espinet 1948 – . Trinidad/Canada The Princess of Spadina, 1992;
Ninja’s Carnival, 1993;
The Swinging Bridge, 2003.
Curdella Forbes19-.. Jamaica. Songs of
Silence, 2002; Flying with Icarus and other
stories,
2003; A Permanent Freedom, 2008; Ghosts,
2012.
Fitzroy Fraser19-. Jamaica. Wounds
in the Flesh, 1962
Beryl Gilroy (1924-2001). Guyana. Frangipani House,
1986; Boy-Sandwich, 1989; In praise
of love and children, 1994; The Green Grass
Tango,
2001.
Thomas Glave 19 -. Jamaica/New York. Whose Song? and other stories, 2000; The Torturer’s
Wife, 2008; Words
to our now: Imagination and dissent -
Essays, 2005; Editor : Our Caribbean: a gathering of Lesbian and Gay writing
from the Antilles, 2008.
Lorna
Goodison 1947-. Jamaica. Baby
Mother and the King of Swords: short stories,
1990; Fool Fool
Rose is leaving Labour-in-vain Savannah, 2005; From Harvey River: a memoir,
2007.
Rudy Gurley. St. Lucia. A
Caribbean Tale, 2006; Sent from overseas, 2007.
Rosa Guy 1925-2012. Trinidad & Tobago The Disappearance, 1979; I heard a bird sing, 1986;
The
Friends, 1995.
Wilson Harris 1921-. Guyana Palace
of the Peacock, 1960; Heartland, 1964, 2009; The Guyana Quartet (his first four
novels), 1985; The Eye of the Scarecrow, 1965; The Waiting Room, 1967; The Mask
of the Beggar, 2003, The Ghost of Memory, 2006, and many other novels; Selected
essays, 1999; Poetry: Eternity to season, 1954.
John Hearne (1926-1995). Jamaica Voices
under the window, 1955; Stranger at the gate, 1956; The Faces of Love, 1957;
The Autumn Equinox, 1959; Land of the
Living, 1961; The Sure Salvation, 1981. Editor, Carifesta Forum: An Anthology
of 20 Caribbean Voices (Carifesta 1976 Publication).
Roy Heath (1926-2009). Guyana. A Man come Home,
1974; The Murderer, 1978; The
Shadow Bride, 1988; The Ministry of Hope,
1997; The
Armstrong
Trilogy, 1994.
Joanne C. Hillhouse 1973-. Antigua. Dancing nude in the
moonlight, 2004; The Boy
from
Willlow Bend, 2002, 2009; Oh Gad!, 2012.
Merle Hodge 1944-. Trinidad. Crick Crack,
Monkey, 1970; For the Life of Laetitia, 1999.
Nalo Hopkinson 1960- . Trinidad/Toronto. Brown Girl in the Ring, 1998; Midnight Robber, 2000;
Skin Folk: short stories, 2001; The Salt Roads, 2003; The New Moon’s Arms,
2007. Editor, Mojo: Conjure Stories, 2003.
Lionel Hutchinson (1923-2000). Barbados. Man from the people, 1970; One
touch of nature, 1971;
C L R James (1901-1989). Trinidad. Minty Alley, 1936;
The Nobbie Stories for Children and
Adults. Edited by Constance Webb (1918-2005),
2006.
Cynthia James 1948-. Trinidad. Bluejean: a
novel, 2000; Sapodilla Terrace, 2006.
Marlon James 1970-. Jamaica. John Crow’s
Devil, 2008; The Book of Night Women,
2010.
Marie-Elena John 1963-. Antigua. Unburnable,
2006.
Ruel Johnson 1980-. Guyana. Ariadne
and other stories, 2003; Fictions Volume 1,
2008.
Simon Jones-Hendrickson. St. Kitts, Nevis. Sonny Jim of Sandy Point, 1991.
Peter Kempadoo (Lauchmonen) 1926- . Guyana.
Guiana Boy, 1960; Old Thom’s Harvest, 1965.
Oonya Kempadoo 1966 - . Guyana. Tide Running, 2003;
Buxton Spice, 2004.
Ismith Khan (1925-2002). Trinidad. The Jumbie Bird, 1961;
The Obeah Man, 1964; The
Crucifixion, 1987; A Day in the Country –
stories, 1990.
Jamaica Kincaid (Elaine Potter Richardson) 1949- . Antigua. At the Bottom of the River, 1983;
Annie John, 1985; A Small Place, 1988;
Lucy, 1991; The Autobiography of my mother, 1996; My brother, 1997; Talk
stories, 2000. And other fiction and
non-fiction writings.
Karen King-Aribisala 19 - . Guyana/Nigeria. Our wife and other
stories, 1991; Kicking
tongues,
1998; The Hangman’s Game, 2007.
Harold Sonny Ladoo (1945-1973). Trinidad. No pain like this body, 1972;
Yesterdays, 1974.
George Lamming 1927-. Barbados. In
the Castle of my skin, 1953; The Emigrants, 1954; Of Age and Innocence, 1958;
Season of Adventure, 1960; The Pleasures of Exile (essays), 1960; Water with
Berries, 1971; Natives of my person 1972; Cannon Shot and Glass Beads: Modern
black writers (Ed.), 1974; Conversations: Essays, addresses and interviews
1953-1990, 1992; Coming, Coming Home: Conversations II, 1995, 2000.
Nicholas Laughlin 1975-. Trinidad. Editor, Caribbean Review of Books 2004-; editor,
Town,
2009-; Editor,
[CLR James] Letters from London. Prospect press, 2003; Editor, V.S. Naipaul.
Letters between a father and Son. Picador, 2009.
Sharon Leach 19-. Jamaica. What
you can’t tell him: stories, 2006.
Jacintha Anius Lee 1951-. St. Lucia. Give me some more
sense: St. Lucian folk tales, 1988.
Andrea Levy 1956-. Jamaica/UK. Small
Island, 2004; The Long Song, 2010.
Earl Long. St. Lucia. Consolation,
1995; Voices from a drum, 1996; Slicer,
2000; Leaves in a river, 2009.
Karen Lord, 1968, Barbados. Redemption
in Indigo, 2010; The Best of all possible
worlds, 2013.
Earl Lovelace 1935-. Trinidad. While
Gods are falling, 1965, 1984; The Schoolmaster, 1968, 1979; The Dragon can’t
dance, 1979; The Wine of Astonishment 1982 ; A Brief Conversion and other
stories, 1988; Salt, 1996; Is just a
movie, 2011. Also published Essays and plays.
Roger Mais (1905-1955). Jamaica. The Hills were
joyful together, 1953, 2009; Brother
Man, 1954; Black Lightning, 1955; Listen, the
Wind and
other stories, 1986.
Rachel Manley 1955 -. Jamaica. Drumblair:
memories of a Jamaican Childhood, 1996;
Slipstream: a Daughter remembers, 2000; Horses
in Her
Hair:
A Grand-daughter’s Story, 2008.
E. A. Markham (1939-2008). Montserrat. Something Unusual: short stories (1986); Taking the
drawing room through customs, 1996; Meet me in Mozambique, 2005; At home with Miss Vanesa, 2006; The Three suitors of Fred Belair, 2009; and
other works (including poetry).
Paule Marshall 1929 - . Barbados/USA. Brown Girl, Brownstones, 1959 (1981); Soul clap
hands and sing, 1961; The Chosen Place, The Timeless People, 1969; Praisesong
for the Widow, 1983; Reena and other stories, 1983; Daughters, 1991; The Fisher
King, 2001; Triangular Road, 2009.
Ian McDonald 1933-. Trinidad/Guyana . The
Hummingbird Tree, 1969.
Claude McKay (1889-1948). Jamaica. Home
to Harlem, 1928; Banana Bottom, 1933.
Alecia McKenzie 1960-. Jamaica. Satellite City,
1993.
Earl McKenzie 1943-. Jamaica. A Boy named
Ossie: A Jamaican childhood, 1991; Two
roads to Mount Joyful and other stories, 1992.
Mark Mcwatt 1947-. Guyana. Suspended
Sentences, 2005.
Pauline Melville 1941-. Guyana/UK. Shape-shifter,
1990; The Ventriloquist’s Tale, 1997;
The
Migration of ghosts, 1998; Eating Air, 2009.
Alfred Mendes (1897-1991). Trinidad. Pitch Lake, 1934; Black
Fauns, 1935; The Man who ran
away and other stories of Trinidad in the
1920’s and
1930’s. Ed. by
Michèle Levy. UWI Press, 2006.
Kei Miller 1978- . Jamaica. Fear
of stones and other stories, 2006; The Same earth,
2008; The Last Warner Woman, 2010.
Edgar Mittelholzer (1909-1965). Guyana. Corentyne Thunder, 1941, 2009; A morning at the office,
1950, 1974,2009; Shadows move among them, 1952; Children of Kaywana, 1952; The
Life and Death of Sylvia, 1953; My bones and my flute, 1955; The Jilkington
Drama, 1965, and many other novels.
Shani Mootoo, 1958 - . T’dad/Canada. Out on Main Street, 1993;
Cereus blooms at night,
1996; He drown she in the sea, 2005; Valmiki’s
Daughter,
2008.
Seepersad Naipaul 1906-1953. Trinidad. Adventures of Gurudeva, 1976.
Shiva Naipaul (1945-1985). Trinidad. Fireflies,
1970; The Chip-Chip Gatherers, 1973; North of South, 1978; Black and White,
1980; A Hot Country, 1983; Love and death in a hot country, 1984; Beyond the
Dragon’s Mouth: stories and pieces, 1984; An Unfinished Journey, 1986.
V S Naipaul 1932-. Trinidad. The
Mystic Masseur, 1957; The Suffrage of Elvira, 1958; Miguel Street, 1959; A House for Mr. Biswas, 1961; The Mimic Men,
1967; In a Free State, 1971; Guerrillas, 1975; A Bend in the River, 1979; Half
a Life, 2001; Magic Seeds, 2004; The Middle Passage, 1962; An Area of Darkness,
1964; The Enigma of Arrival, 1988; A Way in the World, 1995, Literary
Occasions: essays, 2004; A Writer’s
People: Ways of looking and feeling, 2008; and many other novels and
non-fiction writing. Letters between a
father and son. V.S. Naipaul. Edited by Nicholas Laughlin. Picador, 2009. NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE, 2001
Christopher Nicole. Guyana. Off-White,
1959; Shadows in the Jungle, 1961; Blood
Amyot, 1964; White Boy, 1966, and other
novels.
Anton Nimblett. 19….. Trinidad. Sections of an
Orange, 2009.
Elizabeth Nunez. 1944-. Trinidad. Beyond
the Limbo Silence, 1998; Bruised Hibiscus, 2000;
Discretion, 2002; Grace, 2003; Prospero’s
daughter,
2006.
Dorbrene O’Marde, 1950, Antigua. Send out you hand,
2012
Nobody
go run me: biography of King Short shirt of
Antigua, 2013
C. Everard Palmer 1930 - . Jamaica. The Cloud with the
Silver Lining, 1966; Big Doc
Bitteroot, 1968; The Sun salutes you, 1970;
The
Hummingbird People, 1971; The Wooing of Beppo
Tate, 1972; A Dog called Houdini, 1979.
Marion Patrick-Jones 193? - . Trinidad. Pan Beat, 1973; J’Ouvert
Morning, 1976.
Orlando Patterson 1940 - . Jamaica. The Children of
Sisyphus, 1964, 2009; An Absence of
ruins,
1967; Die the Long Day, 1971.
Lakshmi Persaud 1939-. Trinidad. Butterfly in the
wind, 1990. Sastra, 1993; For the love of
my name, 2000;
Raise the lanterns high, 2004;
Caryl Phillips 1958 -. St. Kitts. A
State of Independence, 1986; The Final passage, 1985; Cambridge, 1991; Crossing
the River, 1993; A Distant Shore, 2003; In the Falling Snow, 2009; The European
Tribe, 1987; A New World Order, 2001; Color me English, 2011 and other fiction
and non-fiction works, including drama.
Geoffrey Philp 19-. Jamaica Who’s
your daddy? and other stories, 2009.
Patricia Powell 1966- . Jamaica. Me dying trial, 1993; A small
gathering of bones, 1994;
The Pagoda, 1999; The Fullness of Everything,
2009.
Althea Prince 1945-. Antigua. Ladies of the Night and other stories, 1998; Loving
this
man, 2001.
Raymond Ramcharitar. 19…. Trinidad. The Island Quintet: A
Sequence, 2009.
Tom Redcam (Thomas H. MacDermot)
(1870-1933), Jamaica Beckra’s
Buckra Baby, 1903; One Brown Girl and - ,
1909.
V S Reid (1913-1987). Jamaica
The Leopard, 1958; Sixty-five, 1960; New Day, 1973,
2009;
Anderson Reynolds. St. Lucia. Death by fire,
1999.
Trevor Rhone 1940 – 2009. Jamaica. Bellas Gate Boy
(Memoir), 2008.
Jean Rhys (Ella Gwendoline
Rees Williams
1894-1979). Dominica. Quartet,
1928, 1969; After leaving Mr. Mackenzie, 1930; Good Morning, Midnight, 1939,
1969; Wide Sargasso Sea, 1966; Sleep it off Lady: stories, 1976, 1979; Smile
Please, 1979; Tales of the Wide Caribbean, 1985; Complete Novels (Norton),
1985; The Collected Short Stories (Norton), 1990; and other novels
and essays.
Joan Riley 1958 - . Jamaica. The
Unbelonging, 1984; Waiting in the Twilight, 1987;
Romance, 1988; The Waiting Room, 1989; A
kindness
to the children, 1992.
W. Adolphe Roberts
(1886-1962). Jamaica. The Haunting Hand, 1926; Creole Dusk,
1948; The Single Star, 1949 and other
novels.
Monique Roffey, 1965-. Trinidad. Sun
Dog, 2002; The White woman on the green bicycle 2009; With the kisses of his
mouth (Memoir), 2011; Archipelago, 2012.
Jacob Ross 19-. Grenada. Pynter
Bender, 2008.
Namba Roy 1910-1961. Jamaica . Black
Albino, 1961.
Garth St. Omer 1931- . St. Lucia. Syrop:
a novella, 1964; A Room on the Hill, 1968;
Shades of Grey, 1968; Nor Any Country, 1969;
J-, Black
Bam and the Masqueraders, 1972; The Lights on
the
Hill, 1968, 1986; PRISNMS (unpublished novel).
Andrew Salkey (1928-1995). Jamaica. A Quality of Violence,
1959; Escape to an Autumn
Pavement, 1960, 2009; Anancy’s Score, 1973;
Anancy
Traveler, 1992; Havana Journal, 1971;
Georgetown
Journal, 1972 and many other writings.
Robert Edison Sandiford. Barbados. Winter, Spring, Summer,
Fall : stories, 1995; Sand for
snow, 2003; The Tree of Youth and other
stories, 2005;
Intimacy
101: Rooms and suites, 2013; And sometimes
they fly, 2013.
Lawrence Scott 1943-. Trinidad. Witchbroom, 1992;
Ballad for the New World and Other
Stories, 1994; Aelred’s Sin, 1998; Night
Calypso, 2004;
Light falling on bamboo, 2012.
Samuel Selvon (1923-1994). Trinidad. A Brighter Sun, 1952; The
Lonely Londoners, 1956,
1972; Ways of Sunlight, 1957, 1973; Turn again
Tiger,
1958; Moses Ascending, 1972; Eldorado West One
( 7
one act plays based on the characters from the
novels),
1988; Foreday morning, 1989; Highway in the
sun and
other plays, 1991; and other novels.
Olive Senior, 1941- .Jamaica. Summer
Lightning and Other stories, 1986;
Arrival of
the Snake Woman and other stories, 1989.
Janice Shinebourne. Guyana. Timepiece,
1986; The Last English Plantation, 1989.
Vanessa Spence 1961-. Jamaica. The
Roads are down, 1993.
Jeremy Taylor 19-. UK/Trinidad. Going
to Ground : Journalism (1972-1992),1994.
Michael Thelwell 1939-. Jamaica. The Harder they Come, 1994.
G.C.H. Thomas (1911-1994). St. Vincent. Ruler in
Hiroona, 1972.
Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw 1964-. Trinidad. Four taxis facing north, 2007; Mrs. B,
2014.
Eric Walrond (1898-1966). Guyana. Tropic Death, 1926.
Gemma Weekes 1978-. St. Lucia. Love
Me, 2009
John Wickham (1923-2000). Barbados. Casuarina Row, 1974; World
without end, 1982;
Discoveries, 1993.
Denis Williams (1923-1998). Guyana. Other Leopards, 1963,
2009; The Third Temptation,
1968, 2009.
N D Williams 1942- . Guyana. Ikael
Torass, 1976; The Crying of rainbirds, 1992; The
Silence of Islands, 1994; Julie Mango –
stories, 2003;
The Friendship of Shoes – stories, 2005.
Ronald A. Williams, 19?, Barbados. Four saints and an
angel, 2009; A Death in Panama,
2010;
A Voice from the tomb, 2012.
Anthony C. Winkler 1942- . Jamaica. The Painted canoe, 1983;
The Lunatic, 1987. The Duppy,
2008; Crocodile, 2009, and other novels.
Sylvia Wynter 1928-. The Hills of
Hebron, 1962.
Tiphanie Yanique, 1978 (St. Thomas,USVI) How to escape from a leper colony: a
novella and
stories, 2010.
I am the Virgin Islands
(children’s picture book), 2012.
The Land of love and drowning,
2014.
2.West Indian authors – poets, a name index.
This list represents many of the major
names in West Indian poetry. It is not an all-inclusive compilation. Many of
the writers whose works now form the foundation of West Indian Literature are
listed here. A number of newer writers are also included.
The names of the writers and their place of
birth are given here. Birth and death dates are added. Titles of their works
are not included. Many West Indian writers produce both prose, drama and
poetry. An Internet search will provide more information on the writers and
their major works.
James Christopher Aboud 1956 -. Trinidad.
Opal Palmer Adisa 1954-. Jamaica
Roger Bonair-Agard. Trinidad.
John Agard 1949-. Guyana
Lillian Allen 1951-. Jamaica
Phyllis Shand Allfrey (1908 – 1986),
Dominica
Adrian Augier 1959-. St. Lucia
Raymond Barrow 1920-. Belize
Edward Baugh 1936-, Jamaica
Vera Bell 1906 - . Jamaica
Louise Bennet-Coverley (1919-2006). Jamaica
James Berry 1924-, Jamaica/UK
Marion Bethel 19-. Bahamas
Nicolette Bethel 19-. Bahamas
Jacqueline Bishop 19… Jamaica
Valerie Bloom 1956-. Jamaica
Malika Booker, 19?. UK/Guyana/Grenada
Dionne Brand 1953-. Trinidad
Kamau Brathwaite 1930-. Barbados
Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze 1957-. Jamaica
Wayne Brown, Trinidad. (1944-2009)
Christian Campbell 19-. Bahamas
George Campbell (1916-2002). Jamaica
Vahni Capildeo 1973-. Trinidad
H.D. Carberry 1921-. Jamaica
Peggy Carr 1955-. St. Vincent
Martin Carter (1927-1997). Guyana
Wilfred Cartey (1931-1992). Trinidad
Brian Chan 1949-. Guyana
Faustin Charles 1944-. Trinidad/UK
Staceyann Chin 1971-. Jamaica
LeRoy Clarke 1938-. Trinidad
Michelle Cliff 1946-. Jamaica
Merle Collins 1950-. Grenada
Frank Collymore (1893-1980). Barbados
Christine Craig 1943-. Jamaica
Dennis Craig (1929-2004). Guyana
Fred D’Aguiar 1960-. Guyana/UK
Cyril Dabydeen 1945-. Guyana/UK
David Dabydeen 1955-. Guyana/UK
Melania Daniel 1962-. St. Lucia
Mahadai Das (1954-2003). Guyana
Oscar R. Dathorne (1934-2007). Guyana
Kwame Dawes 1962-. Jamaica.
Linda Deane, 19-, Barbados
McDonald Dixon 1944-. St. Lucia
Lisa Dublin, 19-, St. Lucia
J. Edsel Edmunds 1935-. St. Lucia
Gloria Escoffery (1923-2002). Jamaica
Winston Farrell 19-. Barbados
Howard Fergus 1937-. Montserrat
Hunter J. Francois 1924-. St. Lucia
John Figueroa (1920-1999). Jamaica
Honor Ford-Smith 1951-. Jamaica.
Denis Foster 19.-. Barbados
Michael Foster (19..-19..). Barbados
Michael Gilkes 1933-. Guyana.
Margaret Gill 1953-. Barbados
Anson Gonzalez 1936-. Trinidad.
Lorna Goodison 1947-. Jamaica
Millicent
A. Graham 1974-. Jamaica
Cecil Gray 1923-. Trinidad
Stanley Greaves 1934- . Guyana
Claire Harris 1937-. Trinidad/Canada
Wilson Harris 1921 - . Guyana
Cecil Herbert 1926-. Trinidad
A.L. Hendricks (1922-1992). Jamaica
Kendel Hippolyte 1952-. St. Lucia
Jane King-Hippolyte 1952-. St. Lucia
Abdur Rahman Slade Hopkinson (1934-1993).
Guyana
Ishion Hutchinson 19-. Jamaica
Arnold Harrichand Itwaru 1942-. Guyana
Cynthia James 1948 - . Trinidad
Bongo Jerry 1948-. Jamaica.
Linton Kwesi Johnson 1952-. Jamaica/UK
Evan Jones 1927-. Jamaica
E. McG. ‘Shake’ Keane (1927-1997). St.
Vincent
Paul Keens-Douglas 1942-. Grenada/Trinidad
Ricardo Keens-Douglas 1953-. Grenada
Anthony Kellman 1955-. Barbados
Anthony John La Rose (1927-2009). Trinidad
Paul A. Layne (19?—1971). Grenada/Barbados
Fragano Ledgister 1956-. London/Jamaica
John Robert Lee 1948-, St. Lucia
Edward Lucie-Smith 1933- . Jamaica
Vladimir Lucien 1978-. St. Lucia.
Malik (Delano Abdul Malik De Coteau) 1940-.
Grenada
Rachel Manley 1955- . Jamaica
E. A. Markham (1939-2009). Montserrat
Una Marson 1905-1965. Jamaica
Mark Matthews 1937-. Guyana
Wordsworth McAndrew (1936-2008). Guyana
Shara McCallum 19-. Jamaica.
Ian McDonald 1933-. Tdad/Guyana
Basil McFarlane 1922-. Jamaica
J. E. Clare McFarlane (1894-1962). Jamaica
Claude McKay (1889-1948). Jamaica/USA.
Earl McKenzie 1943. Jamaica
Anthony McNeill (1941-1996). Jamaica
Dionyse McTair 19??. Trinidad
Roger Mc Tair 1943-. Trinidad and Tobago
Mark McWatt 1947-. Guyana
Judy Miles 1942-. Trinidad & Tobago
Kei Miller 1978-. Jamaica
Rooplal Monar 1945-. Guyana
Pamela Mordecai 1942. Jamaica
Mervyn Morris 1937-. Jamaica
Mutabaruka 1952-. Jamaica
Philip Nanton 19 ??. St. Vincent.
Grace Nichols 1950-. Guyana/UK
Oku Onuora
(Orlando Wong)1952-. Jamaica
Jude Patrong 19-. Trinidad
Sasenarine Persaud 1958-. Guyana
Marlene Nourbese Philip 1947-. Trinidad
Esther Phillips 19??. Barbados
Geoffrey Philp 1958- . Jamaica
Velma Pollard 1937-. Jamaica
Victor Questel, (1949-1982). Trinidad
Jennifer Rahim 1963-. Trinidad
Barnabas J. Ramon-Fortuné (1905- ?? ).
Trinidad
Rajandaye Ramkissoon-Chen 1936-. Trinidad
Claudia Rankine 1963- . Jamaica
Roger Robinson, 19?. Trinidad/UK
Eric Roach (1915-1974). Trinidad
Althea Romeo-Mark 1948- . Antigua
Rupert Roopnaraine 19…-. Guyana
Sassy Ross 19-. St. Lucia
Andrew Salkey (1928-1995). Jamaica
Dennis Scott (1939-1991). Jamaica
Olive Senior 1941-. Jamaica
Arthur J. Seymour (1914-1989). Guyana
Philip Sherlock (1902-2000). Jamaica
Tanya Shirley 19 -. Jamaica
Hazel Simmons-McDonald 1947-. St. Lucia
Louis Simpson 1923-. Jamaica
Dorothea Smartt 19 -. London/Barbados
M. G. Smith (1921-1993). Jamaica
Obadiah Michael Smith. Bahamas
Michael Smith (1954-1983). Jamaica
Eintou Pearl Springer 1944-. Trinidad
Gandolph St. Clair 195? St. Lucia
Bruce St. John. (1923-1995). Barbados
Ian Gregory Strachan 19-. Bahamas
Harold Telemaque. (1909-1982). Trinidad
Ralph Thompson 1928-. Jamaica
Patricia Turnbull 19-. St. Lucia
H.A. Vaughan (1901-1985). Barbados
Vivian Virtue (1911-1998). Jamaica
Derek Walcott, 1930- . Saint Lucia. NOBEL
PRIZE FOR LITERATURE, 1992.
Daniel Williams (1927-1972). St. Vincent
Milton Vishnu Williams 1936-. Guyana
Cynthia Wilson 1934-. Barbados
3. Selections of West Indian Literature - Anthologies
PROSE FICTION (Some of the general
anthologies carry poems)
West Indian Stories. Edited by Andrew
Salkey. Faber, 1960.
Tales from the West Indies retold by Philip
Sherlock. [A collection of folk tales]. Oxford, 1966.
Caribbean Literature: An Anthology.
Selected and edited by G. R. Coulthard. University of London Press, 1966.
From the Green Antilles: Writings of the
Caribbean. Edited by Barbara Howes. Souvenir Press, 1967.
The Sun’s Eye. New Edition. Compiled by Anne Walmsley. Longman Caribbean,
1968.
New Writing in the Caribbean. Edited by
A.J. Seymour. Carifesta 1972 Publication. [Prose and poetry from all Caribbean
language areas, including Latin America.]
Caribbean Rhythms: the emerging English
Literature of the West Indies. James T. Livingston. NY: Washington Square Press, 1974.
New Planet: Anthology of Modern Caribbean
Writing. Edited by Amon Saba Saakana (as Sebastian Clarke). Karnak House, 1978.
Best West Indian Stories. Edited by Kenneth Ramchand. Nelson Caribbean,
1982. [Selected short stories by major WI writers]
An Anthology of African and Caribbean
Writing in English. Edited by John J.
Figueroa. Heinemann, 1982.
Facing the Sea. Compiled by Anne Walmsley and Nick
Caistor. Heinemann, 1986.
Her True-True Name: an anthology of women’s
writing from the Caribbean. Edited by
Pamela Mordecai and Betty Wilson. Heinemann, 1989.
Caribbean New Wave: Contemporary Short
Stories. Edited by Stewart Brown. Heinemann, 1990.
The Faber Book of Contemporary Caribbean
Short Stories. Edited by Mervyn Morris.
Faber, 1990.
And I remember many things: folklore of the
Caribbean. Compiled and edited by Christine Barrow. Ian Randle Publishers,
1993.
The Penguin Book of Caribbean Short
Stories. Edited by E. A. Markham. Penguin, 1996.
Caribbean Women Writers. Edited by Harold
Bloom. Chelsea House Publications, 1997.
The Whistling Bird: Women writers of the
Caribbean [Fiction, Verse, Plays]. Edited by Elaine Campbell, Pierrette
Frickey. Lynne Reinner Publishers, 1998.
The Oxford Book of Caribbean Short
Stories. Edited by Stewart Brown and
John Wickham. Oxford, 1999.
Caribbean Folk Tales and Fantasies. Michael
Anthony. Macmillan Caribbean, 2004.
Pulse: A Collection of essays by Saint
Lucian writers. Edited by Kendel Hippolyte and Melchoir Henry, 1980.
Saint Lucian Literature and Theatre: an
anthology of reviews. Compiled and edited by John Robert Lee and Kendel
Hippolyte. Castries: Cultural Development Foundation, 2006.
POETRY
Caribbean Verse: an anthology. Edited and
introduced by O.R. Dathorne. Heinemann Educational Books Ltd, 1967.
Caribbean Voices: an anthology of West
Indian Poetry. Selected by John Figueroa.
Vol. 1 – Dreams and Visions. Evans Brothers, 1966; Vol. 2 – The Blue
Horizons. Evans Brothers, 1970.
West Indian Poetry. New edition.
Edited by Kenneth Ramchand and Cecil Gray. Longman Caribbean, 1971.
Breaklight: an anthology of Caribbean
poetry. Edited by Andrew Salkey. Hamish Hamilton, 1971.
Melanthika:
an Anthology of Pan-Caribbean writing. Edited by Nick Toczek, Philip
Nanton and Yann Lovelock. L.W.M. Publications, 1977.
News for Babylon: The Chatto Book of
Westindian – British Poetry. Edited by James Berry. Chatto and Windus, 1984.
A Shapely Fire: Black Writers in Canada.
Edited by Cyril Dabydeen. Mosaic press, 1987.
Jahaji Bhai: an anthology of Indo-Caribbean
Literature. Frank Birbalsingh. TSAR, 1988.
Voiceprint: an anthology of oral and
related poetry from the Caribbean. Selected and edited by Stewart Brown, Mervyn
Morris, Gordon Rohlehr. Longman, 1989.
Hinterland: Caribbean poetry from the West
Indies and Britain. Edited by E.A. Markham. Bloodaxe Books, 1989.
Creation Fire: A CAFRA Anthology of
Caribbean Women’s Poetry. Edited by Ramabai Espinet. Sister Vision, 1990.
The Heinemann Book of Caribbean
Poetry. Selected by Ian McDonald and
Stewart Brown. Heinemann, 1992.
Caribbean Poetry Now. 2nd edition. Edited by Stewart Brown. Edward Arnold, 1992.
Crossing Water: Contemporary Poetry of the
English-Speaking Caribbean. Edited by Anthony Kellman. NY: The Greenfield
Review Press, 1992.
The Massachusetts Review: Contemporary
Caribbean Culture and Art. Autumn-Winter 1994.
The Penguin Book of Caribbean Verse in
English. Edited by Paula Burnett.
Penguin Classics, 1986, 2005.
The Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse. Edited by Stewart Brown and Mark McWatt. Oxford, 2005.
University of Hunger: Collected poems and
selected prose of Martin Carter. Edited by Gemma Robinson. Tarset: Bloodaxe
Books, 2006.
New Caribbean Poetry: an Anthology. Edited
by Kei Miller. Carcanet, 2007.
Wheel and Come Again: An Anthology of
Reggae Poetry. Edited by Kwame Dawes. Peepal Tree press, 2008.
Confluence: nine Saint Lucian poets. Edited by Kendel Hippolyte. Castries, 1988.
Roseau Valley and other poems for Brother
George Odlum. Compiled and edited by
John Robert Lee. Castries.
4. West Indian Literary Journals
BIM. Barbados. Begun in December 1942 by
E.L. (Jimmy) Cozier the Founder and First editor. Edited for many years by Frank Collymore and
John Wickham. New issues are now edited by
Esther Phillips.
Kyk –Over- Al. Guyana. Founded in 1945. Edited by the late
A. J. Seymour. Last issue in 1961 after
28 issues. Kyk-over-Al #49/50 (June 2000) dedicated to Martin Carter
Tribute. More recent editors of
occasional publications: Ian McDonald and Vanda Radzik.
Focus. Jamaica. Edited by Edna Manley in
1943, 1948, 1956, 1960. 1983 edition edited by Mervyn Morris.
Caribbean Quarterly 1949-. Edited by Director of Extra Mural Studies,
UWI, Mona, Jamaica.
New World Quarterly: A Journal of Caribbean
Affairs and Public Opinion (1965-1969?/1972). Managing Editor: George Beckford
(1934-1990). Published by New World Group Ltd. Carried poems, prose and
literary reviews.
Jamaica Journal 1967- . Journal of the
Institute of Jamaica.
The Trinidad and Tobago Review (formerly
Tapia), beginning publication in 1969, has regularly published poetry, prose
and reviews of Caribbean Literature. Among its writers have been Derek Walcott,
Kamau Brathwaite, Gordon Rohlehr, Ian McDonald, Kenneth Ramchand. It was edited
for many years by the late Lloyd Best (1934-2007). Published by the Trinidad
and Tobago Institute of the West Indies.
SAVACOU: A Journal of the Caribbean Artists
Movement (CAM). From Issue #1 June 1970 – Issue #15 1980. Main editors were
Kamau Brathwaite, Andrew Salkey, Kenneth Ramchand, Gordon Rohlehr. Published by
CAM and Savacou Publications Ltd. A number of issues were anthologies of
writing, in particular the landmark and controversial Savacou 3/4 which
presented New Writing 1970.
The New Voices. Trinidad. No longer
published. Edited from 1973 to 1993, by Trinidadian author, Anson Gonzalez.
The Journal of West Indian Literature 1986
-. Edited and published by Departments
of Literatures in English, The University of the West Indies.
The Caribbean Writer 1987-. Published by the University of the Virgin
Islands.
WASAFIRI (UK) 1984-. Edited by Susheila
Nasta. Published for the Association for the Teaching of Caribbean, African,
Asian and Associated Literatures (ATCAL).
Caribbean Beat: the magazine of the true
Caribbean. Published since 1992 by Media and Editorial Projects Ltd (MEP), it
is the leading magazine on Caribbean and West Indian arts, culture and society.
The inflight magazine of Caribbean Airways. (formerly BWIA).
Calabash: A Journal of Caribbean Arts and
Letters. 2000-. Founding Editor: Jacqueline Bishop. Editor: Gerard Aching.
Small axe: a Caribbean Journal of criticism
2001-. Editor: David Scott (1958-). Associate Editors: Anthony Bogues, Nadi
Edwards, Annie Paul.
The Caribbean Review of Books (CRB). First
edited by Samuel Bandara, in Jamaica, 1991-1994. Revived in 2004. Edited by Nicholas Laughlin, Trinidad. www.caribbeanreviewofbooks.com.
Now an online journal.
The Arts Journal: Critical Perspectives on
the contemporary Literature, Art and Culture of Guyana and the Anglophone
Caribbean. May 2004-. Published yearly by The Arts Forum Inc., Georgetown,
Guyana. Editor: Ameena Gafoor.
Many of these Journals and others that
review Caribbean Literature are now online. Many blogs created by individual
writers discuss and review Caribbean Literature and related issues. In its
February 2009 Issue, CRB discussed the growing necessity for online literary
journals. Some of the sites noted were:
Anthurium:
A Caribbean Studies Journal (www.anthurium.miami.edu).
Published from the University of Miami, debuted online in 2003. Appears roughly
twice per year.
Calabash:
A Journal of Caribbean Arts and Letters (www.nyu.edu/calabash).
Based at New York University. Started in 2000.
Tongues
of the Ocean (www.tonguesoftheocean.org).
Poetry journal based in the Bahamas. Launched in 2009. Edited by poet and
playwright Nicolette Bethel. Three issues annually.
5: Readings on West Indian Literature in English.
West Indian Literature. 2nd
Edition. Edited by Bruce King. Macmillan, 1995. [Provides a historical
background to West Indian writing, with brief studies of selected writers.]
The Islands in Between. Edited by Louis
James. Oxford, 1968.
Caribbean writers: critical essays. Ivan
Van Sertima (1935-2009). New Beacon Books, 1968.
Tradition the writer and society: Critical
essays. Wilson Harris. New Beacon Books, 1967.
The West Indian Novel and its background.
Kenneth Ramchand (1939-). Faber 1970; Heinemann, 1993. Revised edition published by Ian Randle
Publishers, 2004. With bibliographies to
1967.
West Indian Poetry 1900-1970: A study in
cultural decolonization. Edward Baugh. Kingston: Savacou Publications, 1971.
West Indian Poetry. Lloyd Brown. Boston: Twayne Publications,
1978.
Critics on Caribbean Literature. Edited by Edward Baugh. Allen and Unwin,
1978.
A Companion to West Indian Literature.
Michael Hughes. London: Collins, 1979.
On
George Lamming:
The Novels of George Lamming. Sandra Paquet
Pouchet. Heinemann, 1983.
Caliban’s Curse: George Lamming and the
revisioning of history. Supriya Nair. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press,
1996.
From Nation to Diaspora: Samuel Selvon,
George Lamming and the Cultural Performance of Gender. Curdella Forbes. Kingston: UWI Press, 2005.
Resistance and Caribbean Literature. Selwyn
R. Cudjoe. Ohio University Press, 1980.
The Man-of-Words in the West Indies:
Performance and the Emergence of Creole Culture. Roger D. Abrahams. Baltimore,
MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983.
On
Jean Rhys:
Jean Rhys. Carole Angier. Penguin, 1985.
Jean Rhys. Letters 1931-1966. Edited by
Francis Wyndham and Diana Melly. Viking Adult, 1984. Penguin Twentieth Century
Classics, 1995.
Jean Rhys’s Imagination: Reading and Writing the Creole.
Veronica Marie Gregg. Atlantic Books, 1995.
Jean Rhys (Cambridge Studies in African and
Caribbean Literature). Elaine Savory, 2007.
The Cambridge Introduction to Jean Rhys
(Cambridge Introductions to Literature). Elaine Savory. 2009.
The Blue Hour: A Portrait of Jean Rhys
(Bloomsbury Lives of Women). Lilian Pizzichini. Bloomsbury, 2010.
History of the Voice: The Development of
Nation Language in Anglophone Caribbean Poetry.
Kamau Brathwaite. London: New
Beacon Books, 1984.
Poetry in the Caribbean. Julie Pearn.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1985.
Passion and Exile: Essays in Caribbean
Literature. Frank Birbalsingh. Hansib, 1988.
A Reader’s Guide to West Indian and Black
Literature. David Dabydeen and Nana Wilson-Tagore. Hansib, 1988.
The Caribbean Artists Movement 1966-1972: A
literary and cultural history. Anne Walmsley. New Beacon Books, 1992.
New World Adams: conversations with
contemporary West Indian Writers. Daryl Cumber Dance. Peepal Tree, 1992.
Gordon
Rohlehr (1942-.):
Calypso and Society in Pre-Independence
Trinidad. Gordon Rohlehr. Port of Spain, 1990.
The Shape of that Hurt and other essays.
Gordon Rohlehr. Longman Trinidad Ltd, 1992.
My Strangled City and other essays. Gordon
Rohlehr. Longman Trinidad Ltd, 1992.
A Scuffling of islands: Essays on Calypso.
Gordon Rohlehr. Lexicon Trinidad Ltd, 2004.
Transgression, Transition, Transformation:
Essays in Caribbean Culture. Gordon Rohlehr. Lexicon Trinidad Ltd, 2007.
On Kamau
Brathwaite:
Pathfinder: Black awakening in The
Arrivants of Edward Kamau Brathwaite. Gordon Rohlehr, 1981.
Roots: essays of Kamau Brathwaite. Kamau
Brathwaite. University of Michigan, 1993.
The Art of Kamau Brathwaite. Edited by
Stewart Brown. Seren Books, 1995.
Kamau Brathwaite’s MiddlePassages: A Lecture, with an introduction by Elaine
Savory, produced by Hyacinth M. Simpson. Sandberry Press, 2005. [CD, 65
minutes].
Caribbean Culture: soundings on Kamau
Brathwaite. Edited by Annie Paul. UWI Press, 2007.
Come back to me my language: poetry and the
West Indies. J. Edward Chamberlin. Illinois, 1993.
Woman version: Theoretical Approaches to
West Indian Fiction by Women. Evelyn O’Callaghan. Warwick University Caribbean Studies, 1993.
Out of the Kumbla: Caribbean Women and
Literature. Edited by Carole Boyce Davies, Elaine Savory Fido. NJ: Africa World
Press, 1994.
Women writing the West Indies, 1804-1939:
‘A Hot Place, belonging to us.’ Evelyn O’Callaghan. London: Routledge Research
in Postcolonial literatures, 2004.
Deconstruction, Imperialism and the West
Indian novel. Glyne A. Griffith. UWI Press, 1995.
Rena Juneja. Caribbean Transactions: West
Indian Culture in Literature. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1996.
The Repeating Island: The Caribbean and the
Postmodern Perspective. Antonio Benitez-Rojo (1931-2004). Durham, NC: Duke
University Press, 1996.
Frontiers of Caribbean Literature in
English( Interviews). Edited by Frank Birbalsingh. St. Martin’s Press, 1996.
The Routledge reader in Caribbean
Literature. Edited by Alison Donnell, Sarah Lawson Welsh, 1996.
Traveller’s Literary Companion: Caribbean.
James Ferguson. Passport Books, 1997.
Conversations with V.S. Naipaul. Edited by Feroza Jussawalla. Jackson:
University Press of Mississippi, 1997.
An introduction to West Indian Poetry.
Laurence A. Breiner. Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Historical thought and literary representation
in West Indian Literature. Nana Wilson-Tagoe. UWI Press, 1998.
Beating a Restless Drum: The Poetics of
Kamau Brathwaite and Derek Walcott. June Bobb. Trenton, NJ: Africa World press,
1998.
The Other America: Caribbean Literature in
a New World Context. J. Michael Dash. Charlottesville: University of Virginia
Press, 1998.
Caribbean Literature in English. Louis
James. Longman, 1999.
Is English we speaking and other
essays. Mervyn Morris. Ian Randle
Publishers, 1999.
Natural Mysticism: Towards a New Reggae
Aesthetic. Kwame Dawes. Peepal Tree Press, 1999.
Talk yuh talk: Interviews with Anglophone
Caribbean Poets. Edited by Kwame Dawes. University of Virginia Press, 2000.
On
Derek Walcott:
The Art of Derek Walcott. Edited by Stewart
Brown. Seren Books, 1991.
Critical Perspectives on Derek Walcott.
Edited by Robert Hamner. Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1996.
Conversations with Derek Walcott. Edited by
William Baer. University Press of Mississippi, 1996.
What the Twilight says: Essays. Derek
Walcott. Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1998.
Derek Walcott: A Caribbean Life. Bruce
King. Oxford, 2000.
Abandoning dead metaphors: the Caribbean
phase of Derek Walcott’s poetry. Patricia Ismond (1944-2006). University of the
West Indies Press, 2001.
Nobody’s Nation: Reading Derek Walcott.
Paul Breslin. University of Chicago Press, 2001.
Derek Walcott. Edward Baugh. Cambridge
University Press [Cambridge Studies in African and Caribbean Literature], 2006.
Interlocking basins of a globe: essays on
Derek Walcott. Edited by Jean Antoine-Dunne. Peepal, 2013.
The Caribbean Novel in English: An
Introduction. Edited by M. Keith Booker and Dubravka Juraga. Ian Randle
Publishers, 2001.
The novels of Samuel Selvon: A critical
study. Roydon Salick. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001.
The Maroon Narrative: Caribbean Literature
in English across boundaries, ethnicities and centuries (Studies in Caribbean
Literature). Cynthia James. Heinemann, 2002.
The Empire writes back: Theory and Practice
in Post-Colonial Literatures. Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, Helen Tiffin.
2nd Edition. Routledge, 2002.
The Second Shipwreck. A Study of
Indo-Caribbean Literature. Jeremy Poynting. Peepal Tree, 2003.
Self-Portraits: Interviews with Ten West
Indian Writers and Two Critics. Funso Aiyejina. UWI School of Continuing
Studies, St. Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago, 2003.
Growing in the Dark: Selected Essays. Earl
Lovelace and Funso Aiyejina. Port of
Spain: Lexicon, 2003.
On
Wilson Harris:
Wilson Harris: A Philosophical Approach.
C.L.R. James. UWI, 1965.
Wilson Harris and the Caribbean novel.
Michael Gilkes. Longman, 1975.
Wilson Harris. Hena Maes-Jelinek. Boston:
Twayne, 1982.
The Literate Imagination: Essays on the
novels of Wilson Harris. Edited by Michael Gilkes. Macmillan, 1989.
Selected Essays of Wilson Harris, the
unfinished Genesis of the Imagination. Edited by A.J.M. Bundy. Routledge, 1999.
Exploring the Palace of the Peacock: Essays
on Wilson Harris. Joyce Sparer Adler. Edited by Irving Adler, UWI Press, 2003.
All are involved: the Art of Martin Carter.
Edited by Stewart Brown. Peepal Tree, 2004.
Making West Indian Literature (Essays and
interviews). Mervyn Morris. Ian Randle Publishers, 2005.
Twentieth Century Caribbean Literature:
Critical Moments in Anglophone Literary History. Alison Donnell. Routledge,
2005.
Caribbean Literature and the Environment:
Between Nature and Culture. Elizabeth M. De Loughery. Charlottesville:
University of Virginia Press, 2005.
Tourist, traveller, troublemaker: essays on
poetry. Stewart Brown. Peepal Tree, 2007.
Nationalism and the Formation of Caribbean
Literature. Leah Reade Rosenberg. Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
The World is what it is: The Authorised
Biography of V.S. Naipaul. Patrick French. Picador, 2008.
Black Yeats: Eric Roach and the politics of
Caribbean Poetry. Laurence A. Breiner.
Peepal Tree, 2008.
Caribbean Literature After Independence:
The Case of Earl Lovelace. Edited by Bill Schwartz. Institute
for the Study of the Americas, 2008.
A
Place in the World: Essays and Tributes in Honour of Earl Lovelace at
70. Edited by Funso Aiyejina. Port of Spain: Lexicon, Trinidad, 2008.
Writing Life: Reflections by West Indian
Writers, Edited by Mervyn Morris & Carolyn Allen. Ian Randle Publishers,
2008.
Frank Collymore: a biography. Edward Baugh.
Ian Randle Publishers, 2009.
Philosophy in the West Indian novel. Earl
McKenzie. UWI Press, 2009.
Caribbean Women Writers: Essays from the
First International Conference. Selwyn R. Cudjoe. University of Massachusetts,
2009.
The Caribbean Short Story: Critical
perspectives. Edited by Lucy Evans, Mark McWatt & Emma Smith, 2011.
The Sky’s Wild Noise: Selected Essays.
Rupert Roopnarine. Peepal, 2012.
Bibliographies,
Indexes, Reference materials:
Caribbean Writers: a
Bio-Bibliographical-Critical Encyclopedia.
Edited by Donald E. Herdeck. Three Continents Press, 1979.
Derek Walcott: An Annotated Bibliography of
His Works. Irma Goldstraw. New York: Garland, 1984.
Fifty Caribbean Writers: a
Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Edited by Daryl Cumber Dance.
Greenwood Press, 1986.
West Indian Literature: an Index to
criticism 1930-1975. Jeannette B. Allis. Boston: G. H. Hall, 1981.
Anglophone Caribbean Poetry 1970-2001: An
Annotated Bibliography. Emily Allen Williams. Greenwood, 2002.
Encyclopedia of Latin American and
Caribbean Literature 1900-2003. Edited
by Daniel Balderston and Mike Gonzalez.
Routledge, 2004.
Bibliography of St. Lucian Creative
Writing: poetry, prose, drama by St. Lucian writers 1948-2012. John Robert Lee.
Castries: Mahanaim, 2013. EBook by Author House, 2013.
6. The Historical, Cultural and Social background
The Traveller’s Tree. Patrick Leigh Fermor.
Murray, 1950.
The Making of the West Indies. F.R. Augier
et al. Longmans, 1960.
The Rastafari Movement in Kingston,
Jamaica. M.G. Smith, Roy Augier, and Rex Nettleford. Kingston: Institute of
Social and Economic Research, UWI, 1960.
Federation of the West Indies. Sir John
Mordecai. Northwestern University Press, 1968.
The Growth of the Modern West Indies.
Gordon K. Lewis (1919-1991). Monthly Review Press, 1968; Ian Randle Publishers,
2004.
The Groundings with my brothers. Walter
Rodney (1942-1980). London: Bogle-L’Ouverture Publications, 1969. Reprint,
1990.
Contemporary Caribbean: A Sociological
Reader. Two Volumes. Edited by Susan Craig. Port of Spain, 1981, 1982.
Main Currents in Caribbean Thought. Gordon
K. Lewis (1919-1991). Heinemann, 1983.
West Indian Societies. David Lowenthal.
Oxford, 1972.
The Caribbean People, Books 1,2,3. Lennox Honychurch. Nelson Caribbean, [1979.]
The Caribbean: Survival, Struggle and Sovereignty.
Catherine A. Sunshine. An EPICA Publication, 1985.
The Modern Caribbean. Edited by Franklin W.
Knight and Colin A. Palmer. University of North Carolina Press, 1989.
C.L.R.
James (1901-1989):
Beyond a Boundary. C.L.R. James. Serpent’s Tail, 1963.
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture
and the San Domingo Revolution. 2nd Edition Rev. C.L.R. James. Vintage Books, 1989.
The CLR James Archive: A Reader’s Guide.
Compiled by Anna Grimshaw. NY: CLR James Institute, 1991.
Special Delivery: The Letters of CLR James
to Constance Webb 1939-1948. Edited by Anna Grimshaw & Constance Webb.
Blackwell Publishers, 1995.
C.L.R. James: A Life. Farrukh Dhondy.
Pantheon Books, 2002.
Letters from London (letters of C.L.R.
James). Edited by Nicholas Laughlin. Prospect Press, 2003.
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Photo no. 3: Caribbean writers in St. Lucia for WordAlive Literary
Festival, 2010
From left to right:
Standing: Earl Lovelace, McDonald Dixon, John Robert
Lee, Kei Miller, Esther Phillips, Kendel Hippolyte, Alwin Bully, Anita Bully,
Lorna Goodison, Edward Baugh.
Sitting: Roger Bonair Agard, Marie – Elena John, Adrian
Augier, Marc Matthews.
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John Robert Lee. Photo by Davina Lee 
McDonald Dixon
King, Hippolyte, Lucien, Lee
