HISTORY

 

ANCIENT THOUGHT (c.700 BCE-300 CE):
  
Classical Literature

 

MEDIEVAL THOUGHT (c.300-c.1400):
  
Medieval Literature

 

RENAISSANCE THOUGHT (c.1400-c.1600):

   Renaissance Literature

 

EARLY MODERN THOUGHT (c.1600-c.1785):
  
Neoclassical Literature

 

NINETEENTH CENTURY THOUGHT:
  
Romanticism (1785-1830):
     
Romantic Literature
   Mid-Century/Fin de Siècle (1830-1900)
:
     
'Victorian' Literature

 

TWENTIETH CENTURY THOUGHT:
  
Analytic Philosophy

   Continental Theory:
     
Idealism

      Marxism

      Phenom., Existent., Hermeneutics

      Psychoanalysis

      (Post-)Structuralisms:

         Deconstruction

         Deleuzean Theory

         Dialogism (Bakhtin Circle)

         Foucauldian Discourse Theory

         Semiology / Structuralism

         Structuralist Marxism

         Structuralist Psychoanalysis

   Modernism, Myth & New Criticism

   Pragmatism

 

   Feminist Theory

   Post-colonial Theory

 

   Twentieth Century Literature

 

REGIONS

 

AFRICAN AND AFRICAN DIASPORIC THOUGHT:

   Literature

 

ASIAN THOUGHT:

   Central Asia

   East Asian Thought:

      Literature

   South Asian Thought:

      Literature

   South-East Asia

 

AUSTRALASIAN THOUGHT:

   Literature

 

CANADIAN THOUGHT:

   Literature

 

CARIBBEAN THOUGHT:

   Literature

 

EUROPEAN THOUGHT:

   Central Europe

   Eastern Europe:

      Russia:

        Literature

   Northern Europe:

      Literature

   Southern Europe:

      Greece:

         Literature

      Italy:

         Literature

      Spain:

         Literature

   Western Europe:

      France:

         Literature

      Germany:

         Literature

      UK and Eire:

         Literature

 

LATIN AMERICAN THOUGHT:

   Literature

 

MIDDLE EASTERN THOUGHT:

   Arabic/Islamic Thought:

      Literature

   Israeli/Jewish Thought:

      Literature

 

USA: AMERICAN THOUGHT:

   Literature

   African American Thought:

      Literature

   Native American Thought

 

TOPICS

 

ARTS:

   Architecture
   Arts, Visual and Plastic

   Film

   Literature:

      Author

      Literary Form & Genre:

         Drama

         Poetry

         Prose

      Literary History, Intertextuality, Canon.

      Metaliterature

      Reader

      Representation

   Music
   Other Media (e.g. Photography)

 

BEING

 

COMMUNICATION:

   Discourse Studies
   Philosophy of Language & Logic

   Linguistics

   Rhetoric & Argumentation Theory

   Semiotics

 

   Language and Literature

 

EDUCATION

 

HISTORY

 

THE HUMAN BEING (BODY, MIND, SELF):

   Medical Humanities
  
Philosophy of Mind & Cognitive Science

   Psychology

 

   Gender

   Race

   Sexuality

 

   Literature, the Mind & the Self

 

KNOWLEDGE

 

CARIBBEAN LITERATURE AND LITERARY THEORY


SUB-PAGES

Feminist:


ASSOCIATIONS

AUTHORS

CONFERENCES

2009:

  • Quiet Revolutions in West Indian Literature and Criticism, 28th Annual Conference on West Indian Literature, University of Guyana, April 26–29

  • First They Must Be Children: the Child and the Caribbean Imagi/Nation, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, January 8-10

2008:

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:

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COURSES

JOURNALS

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:

  • Anthologies:

  • Selected Individual Works:

On-Line:

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.

    • James, Louis, ed.  The Islands in Between.  London: OUP, 1968.

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

  • Selected Individual Works:

    • Breiner, Laurence A.  An Introduction to West Indian Poetry.  Cambridge: CUP, 1998.
    • Brown, Lloyd W.  West Indian Poetry.  Boston: Twayne, 1978.
    • Chamberlain, Ted.  Come Back to Me my Language: Poetry and the West Indies.  Chicago: U of Illinois P, 1993.
    • Donnell, Alison.  Twentieth-Century Caribbean Literature.  London: Routledge, 2005.
    • Gikandi, Simon.  Writing in Limbo: Modernism and Caribbean Literature.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1992.
    • Gilkes, Michael.  Racial Identity and the Individual Consciousness in the West Indian Novel

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

    • 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.

    • Ramchand, Ken.  An Introduction to the Study of West Indian Literature.  Sunbury-on-Thames: Nelson Caribbean, 1976.

    • Ramchand, Ken.  The West Indian Novel and its Background.  London: Faber, 1970.

    • 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.

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UNIVERSITY PROGRAMMES / RESEARCH CENTRES / RESEARCH PROJECTS

USA:

WWW GATEWAYS

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