CARIBBEAN LITERATURE AND LITERARY THEORY

SUB-PAGES

Authors:

Philosophers / Theorists:

• C. L. R. James (1901 - 1989)

• Nicholas Guillen (1902 - 1989)

• Aimé Césaire (1913 - )

• Wilson Harris (1921 - )

• Frantz Fanon (1925 - 1961)

• George Lamming (1927 - )

• Edouard Glissant (1928 - )

• Sylvia Wynter (1928 - )

• Edward Kamau Brathwaite (1930 - )

• Derek Walcott (1930 - )

• Antonio Benitez-Rojo (1931 - 2004)

• Gordon Rohlehr (1942 - )

• J. Michael Dash ( - )

• Ken Ramchand ( - )

Feminist:

• Caribbean Feminist Critical Theory

ASSOCIATIONS

• College English Association, Caribbean Chapter

CONFERENCES

2007:

• The Asian Experience in the Caribbean and the Guyanas: Labour, Migration, Literature and Culture, Center for Caribbean Literary Studies, University of Miami, November 1-3

2006:

2005:

2004:

2003:

2002:

2001:

2000:

Annual:

JOURNALS

• Journal of Caribbean Literatures
• Journal of West Indian Literature

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • Baugh, Edward, ed.  Critics on Caribbean Literature: Readings in Literary Criticism.  London: Allen and Unwin, 1978.

  • Hearne, John, ed.  Carifesta Forum: an Anthology of Twenty Caribbean Voices.  Kingston: Institute of Jamaica, 1976.

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Dawes, Kwame.  Natural Mysticism: Towards a New Reggae Aesthetic.  Leeds: Peepal Tree, 1999.

  • Edmondson, Belinda.  "Race, Tradition and the Construction of the Caribbean Aesthetic."  New Literary History 25 (1994): 109-120.

  • Gilkes, Michael  Racial Identity and the Individual Consciousness in the West Indian Novel. 

  • McWatt, Mark.  "Beyond the Novel: Prolegomena to any Future Theory of West Indian Fiction."  Sixth Annual Conference on West Indian literature, UWI, St. Augustine, May, 1986.

  • Puri, Shalini.  The Caribbean Postcolonial: Social Equity, Post-Nationalism, and Cultural Hybridity.  London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

  • Torres-Saillant, Silvio.  Caribbean Poetics: Toward an Aesthetics of Caribbean Literature.  Cambridge: CUP, 1997.

  • Williams, Denis.  Image and Idea in the Arts of Guiana.  Edgar Mittelhölzer Memorial Lectures 1969.  Georgetown: National History and Arts Council of Guyana and Ministry of Information, 1969.

On-Line:

• Edmondson, Belinda: Race, Tradition and the Construction of the Caribbean Aesthetic

SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • Arnold, A. James, Julio Rodriguez-Luis and J. Michael Dash, eds.  A History of Literature in the Caribbean.  3 Vols.  Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1994-2001.

    • Vol. 3. 

    • Vol. 2. 

    • Hispanic and Francophone Regions.  Ed. A. James Arnold, Julio Rodriguez-Luis and J. Michael Dash.  Vol. 1.  1994.

  • Donnell, Alison, and Sarah Lawson Welsh, eds.  Routledge Reader in Caribbean Literature.  London: Routledge, 1996.

  • Gikandi, Simon, and F. Abiola Irele, eds.  Cambridge History of African and Caribbean Literature.  Cambridge: CUP, 2004.

  • Puri, Shalini, ed.  Marginal Migrations: the Circulation of Cultures within the Caribbean.  Oxford: Macmillan Caribbean, 2003.

  • Whittle, Nick, ed.  Caribbean Art Criticism: Fashioning a Language, Forming a Dialogue.  Bridgetown: AICA Southern Caribbean, 2000.

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Donnell, Alison.  Twentieth-Century Caribbean Literature.  London: Routledge, 2005.
  • Edwards, Nadi.  "Migrating Theories: Arnoldian Transformations in West Indian Criticism."  Migrations: 14th Annual Conference on West Indian Literature, Antigua State College, March 1995.
  • Gall, David A.  "Modernism, Postmodernism, and Caribbean Identity."  Caribbean Art Criticism: Fashioning a Language, Forming a Dialogue.  Ed. Nick Whittle, et al.  Bridgetown: AICA Southern Caribbean, 2000.  13-23.
  • Gikandi, Simon.  Writing in Limbo: Modernism and Caribbean Literature.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1992.

  • Griffith, Glyne.  Deconstruction, Imperialism and the West Indian Novel.  Kingston: UWI Press, .

  • Hezekiah, Gabrielle.  "On her Own Terms: Nation-Space and Some Problems of Criticism in Contemporary Caribbean Art."  Caribbean Art Criticism: Fashioning a Language, Forming a Dialogue.  Ed. Nick Whittle, et al.  Bridgetown: AICA Southern Caribbean, 2000.  85-90.

  • Lewis, Shireen K.  Race, Culture, and Identity: Francophone West African and Caribbean Literature and Theory from Negritude to Creolite.  Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2005.

  • Murdoch, H. Adlai.  Creole Identity in the French Caribbean Novel.  Tallahassee: UP of Florida, 2001.

  • Döring, Tobias.  Caribbean-English Passages: Intertextuality in a Post-colonial Tradition.  London: Routledge, 2002.

  • Wilson-Tagoe, Nana.  Historical Thought and Literary Representation in West Indian Literature.  Oxford: James Currey, 1998.

  • Yearwood, Gladstone L.  "The Island as Signifier in Caribbean Aesthetics: Towards a Hermeneutics of Caribbean Art Criticism."  Caribbean Art Criticism: Fashioning a Language, Forming a Dialogue.  Ed. Nick Whittle, et al.  Bridgetown: AICA Southern Caribbean, 2000.  63-73.

On-Line:

UNIVERSITY PROGRAMMES / RESEARCH CENTRES / RESEARCH PROJECTS

USA:

• University of Miami: Department of English: Caribbean Literary Studies

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