CARIBBEAN LITERATURE AND LITERARY THEORY

SUB-PAGES

Feminist:

• Caribbean Feminist Thought

ASSOCIATIONS

• College English Association, Caribbean Chapter

AUTHORS

• Nicholas Guillen (1902 - 1989)

• Aimé Césaire (1913 - )

• Wilson Harris (1921 - )

• George Lamming (1927 - )

• Edouard Glissant (1928 - )

• Sylvia Wynter (1928 - )

• Edward Kamau Brathwaite (1930 - )

• Derek Walcott (1930 - )

• V. S. Naipaul (1932 - )

CONFERENCES

2009:

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

2008:

• Carnival, 'People's Art and Taking Back the Streets, Accolade Centre at York University and Kofler Centre at the University of Toronto, July 30-August 3
• History, Fable and Myth: Lamming at 80, 27th Annual Conference on West Indian Literature, Department of Language, Linguistics and Literature, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, February 28-March 1

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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2001:

2000:

Annual:

COURSES

• University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras: Caribbean Literature and Postcolonial Theory (Natarajann)

JOURNALS

• Journal of Caribbean Literatures
• Journal of West Indian Literature

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:

  • 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.

  • 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.

On-Line:

UNIVERSITY PROGRAMMES / RESEARCH CENTRES / RESEARCH PROJECTS

USA:

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

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