New Database of Caribbean Literature
Dr. Jefferey H. Taylor, Professor of English
Metropolitan State College of Denver
Caribbean Authors
Alphabetically
Intro Page
Database by Country
Auraria Campus
Library
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Allfrey, Phyllis Shand (Dominica 1915-1986) Founder of the
Dominican Labour Party and member of the West Indian Federation. Her
best known work is the novel The Orchid House.
In Circles: Poems. (1940)
The Orchid House.(1953)
available: through Prospector
Palm and Oak: Poems.(1967)
The short story "Little Cog-burt" is anthologized in Green Cane and
Juicy Flotsam. Eds. Carmen C. Esteves & Lizabeth
Paravisini-Gebert (see listing under Esteves or Paravisini-Gebert)
Álvarez, Julia (Dominican Republic) Popular novelist and
poet.
Homecoming: Poems. (1984)
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents. (1991) Fiction.
available: Auraria and
through Prospector
In the Time of the Butterflies. (1994)
Fiction. Also in Spanish: En el
tiempo de las mariposas.
available: through Prospector
The Other Side / El Otro Lado. (1995) Poetry.
available: Auraria and
through Prospector
Homecoming : New And Collected Poems. (1996)
available: Auraria
and through Prospector
Yo. (1997) Sequel to Garcia Girls
available: Auraria and
through Prospector. Also in Spanish.
Something to declare. (1998) Autobiographical essays.
available: Auraria and
through Prospector
In The Name Of Salomé: A Novel. (2000) Chronicles the
life of Salome Urena and her daughter Camilla, and based on real events
in the US, the DR and Cuba. during the volatile 1960s. Also
in Spanish: En El Nombre De
Salomé.
available: Auraria and
through Prospector
The
secret footprints. (2000) Folklore.
available: through
Prospector
How Tía
Lola came to visit stay. (2001) Also in Spanish: Cuando tía
Lola vino de visita a quedarse.
available: Auraria and
through Prospector
Before We Were Free. (2002) A novel about resistance to
the Trujillo dictatorship. Also in Spanish: Antes De Ser Libres.
available: Auraria and
through Prospector
Cry
Out : Poets Protest the War. (2003)
available: Auraria and
through Prospector
The
Woman I Kept to Myself : poems. (2004)
available: through
Prospector
Finding Miracles. (2004)
Selections in anthologies available: Auraria and through
Prospector
Anderson, Vernon F. (Jamaica 1900-)
Sudden Glory (1987) Set among Mayan ruins in the Guatemalan
jungle, archaeologists confront unexpected violence and challenges to
their sanity.
available: through Prospector
Anthony, Michael (Trinidad & Tobago 1930 or 1932 - )
Caribbean novels about growing up and other personal subjects.
The Year in San Fernando.(1965) A twelve year old boy leaves
home for the first time to work as a servant in town.
Green Days by the River.(1967) Shellie, a young man from
Trinidad & Tobago is attracted to two girls in his new village.
available: through Prospector
The Games Were Coming. (1968 [c 1963])
available: through Prospector
Cricket in the Road.(1973) Story collection, including "Enchanted
Alley," the basis of Fernando.
All That Glitters. (1971) Another story of growing up in
Trinidad & Tobago.
The Chieftain's Carnival and other stories. (1993)
In the Heat of the Day (1996) Set in Trinidad during the tragic
colonial repressions of 1903, a novel of love, revenge, politics and
social upheaval.
available: through Prospector
Historical
Dictionary of Trinidad and Tobago. (1997)
available: Auraria
and through Prospector
Antoni, Robert (Trinidad & Tobago 1951 or 1958 - ) New
novelist.
Divina Trace. (1992) Winner of the 1992 Commonwealth Writers
Prize for Best First Novel.
available: through Prospector
Blessed is the Fruit. (1997)
available: through Prospector
My Grandmother's Erotic Folktales.
(2000)
available: through Prospector
Arenas, Reinaldo (Cuba 1943 - ) Widely read Cuban novelist,
expelled from Cuba in 1980.
Hallucinations: Being an Account of the Life and Adventures of Friar
Servando Teresa De Mier (El mundo alucinante.) (1966) Based on the
life of Jose Servando Teresa De Mier Noriega Y Guerra,1763 - 1827. Also
titled in English The ill-fated peregrinations of Fray Servando.
Available in Spanish and English.
available: Auraria and
through Prospector
Celestino Before Dawn (Celestino antes del alba.) (1967)
available: through Prospector
Con
los ojos cerrados. (1972)
available: through Prospector
Farewell to the Sea (Otra vez el mar). (1974) Next in the narrative
sequence, an earlier version was "lost" in Cuba in 1969. Available in Spanish and English.
available: through Prospector
The Palace of the White Skunks (El Palacio De Las
Blanquísimas Mofetas.)(1980) A sequel to Singing from
the Well, portrays Cuba on the verge of revolution. Available in Spanish and English.
available: through Prospector
Termina el desfile. (1981)
available: through Prospector
Cantando en el Pozo (1982)
available: through Prospector
Arturo, la
estrella mas brillante. (1984)
Available in Spanish and English.
available: through Prospector
El central : a Cuban sugar mill (El Central: poema). (1984)
available: through Prospector
Persecución : cinco piezas de
teatro experimental. (1986)
available: through Prospector
La loma del ángel. (1987)
available: through Prospector
Singing from the Well (Celestino antes del alba.) (1987) A
rewrite of his only Cuban published novel.
available: through Prospector
Old Rosa: A Novel in Two Stories (La vieja rosa y Arturo, la
estrella más brillante.) (1989)
available: through Prospector
Voluntad
de vivir manifestándose (1989) Poesia.
available: through Prospector
The Assault (El asalto). (1990)
Available in Spanish and English.
available: through Prospector
Leprosorio
: (trilogía poética). (1990)
available: through Prospector
Viaje a La Habana : novela en tres viajes.
(1990)
available: through Prospector
The Doorman (El portero). (1991) Available in Spanish and
English.
available: through Prospector
Final
de un cuento. (1994)
available: through Prospector
Before Night Falls (Antes Que Anochezca : Autobiografía.)
(1993) Memoirs. Available in Spanish and English.
available: Auraria and through Prospector
Adiós a mamá : de La Habana
a Nueva York. (1995)
available: Auraria
and through Prospector
The Color of summer, or, The new garden of earthly delights (El
color del verano, o, Nuevo
"Jardín de las delicias" : novela escrita y publicada sin
privilegio imperial .) (2000) Humorous, erotic stories.
available: Auraria and
through Prospector
Inferno
: (poesía completa). (2001)
available: through Prospector
Mona
and other tales. (2001) Short stories translated into
English by Dolores M. Koch.
available: Auraria and
through Prospector
Necesidad de Libertad. (2001)
available: through Prospector
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Bascom, Harold (Guyana 1951 - )
Apata (1986) Loosely based on a manhunt coinciding with Queen
Elizabeth's visit to Guyana in 1959, a brilliant young black man
succumbs to the brutality of an institutionalized racism.
available: through Prospector
Berry, James (Jamaica) Winner of the British Poetry Society's
National Poetry Competition and recipient of the Minority Rights Arts
Group Award and the Order of the British Empire, his many works
include:
Bluefoot Traveller. (1976) Poetry.
Fractured Circles. (1979) Poetry.
Lucy's Letters and Loving. (1982) Poetry.
News
for Babylon : the Chatto Book of Westindian-British Poetry.
(1984) Edited by Berry.
available: through Prospector
Chain of Days. (1985) Poetry.
available: through Prospector
A Thief in the Village and Other Stories. (1987 or 1988) Short
stories
about young people in Jamaica, a 1989 Coretta Scott King Honor Book.
available: Auraria and
through Prospector
Spiderman Anancy. (1989) Also called Anancy-Spiderman. Trickster
tails from the Caribbean, an
obvious link to Africa.
available: through Prospector
When I Dance. (1988) Poems for young adults about inner-city
Britain and the rural Caribbean.
available: through Prospector
The Future-Telling Lady and Other Stories. (1991 or 1993)
available: through Prospector
Ajeemah and His Son. (1992) A short novel from The Future
Telling Lady and Other Stories about slave life in
eighteenth-century Jamaica.
available: Auraria and
through Prospector
Celebration Song: A Poem (1994) An illustrated Christmas
poem from
Mary's perspective.
available: through Prospector
Classic Poems to Be Read Aloud. (1995) An anthology of
children's poem by many authors selected by Berry.
available: through Prospector
Rough Sketch Beginning. (1996) A combination of narrative and
traditional poetry with pictures and illustrations.
available: through Prospector
Hot Earth Cold Earth. (1996) Poetry.
available: through Prospector
Don't Leave an Elephant to Go and Chase a Bird. (1996) Anancy
the Spider story about getting too greedy retold by Berry.
available: through Prospector
First Palm Trees: An Anancy Spiderman Story. (1997) Anancy story
about the creation of the palm tree.
available: through Prospector
Everywhere Faces Everywhere. (1997) Poems about growing up with
the magic of diversity in a world unable to accept it.
available: Auraria and
through Prospector
Is Not My Name Magical?
(1999) Children's poems about an African-American brother and
sister.
available: through Prospector
Around the World in Eighty Poems. (2002)
available: through
Prospector
A
Nest Full of Stars : poems. (2004)
available: through
Prospector
Birbalsingh, Frank (Guyana)
Passion and Exile: Essays in Caribbean Literature. (1988)
Jahaji Bhai - An anthology of Indo-Caribbean Literature. (Ed. F.
Birbalsingh 1988)
Indenture and Exile: The Indo-Caribbean Experience. (Ed. F.
Birbalsingh 1989)
available: through Prospector
Indo-Caribbean Resistance. (1993 Ed. F. Birbalsingh)
Frontiers of Caribbean Literature in English. (Ed. F.
Birbalsingh 1996)
available: Auraria and
through Prospector
Bissoondath, Neil (Trinidad & Tobago 1955 - ) The nephew of
authors V. S. Naipaul and Shiva Naipaul, he emigrated to Canada in 1973.
Digging Up the Mountains. (1985) Short stories.
available: through Prospector
A Casual Brutality. (1988)
available: through Prospector
On the Eve of Uncertain Tomorrows. (1990) Short stories.
available: through Prospector
The Innocence of Age. (1992)
Selling Illusions: The Cult of Multi-Culturalism in Canada.
(1994)
Braithwaite, E. R. (Edward Ricardo) (Guyana)
To Sir With Love. (1959) Basis of the 1967 motion picture
starring Sidney Poitier.
available: Auraria and
through Prospector
A Kind of Homecoming. (1962)
available: through Prospector
Paid Servant. (1968 [c. 1962])
available: Auraria and
through Prospector
Choice of Straws. (1965 or 1966)
available: through Prospector
Reluctant Neighbors. (1972)
available: Auraria and
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Honorary White. (1975)
available: Auraria and
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Brathwaite, Kamau (Barbados 1930 - ) One of the most highly
regarded poets of Postcolonial English, Brathwaite's poetry resonates
with the roots of Caribbean culture in Africa and the contemporary
struggles in the multicultural modern Caribbean society. Some of his
many works include:
Rights of Passage. (1967) Groundbreaking volume of poetry
embracing the full scope of the African-Caribbean experience.
available: through Prospector
Masks. (1968)
available: through Prospector
Islands. (1969)
available: Auraria and
through Prospector
Folk Culture of the Slaves in Jamaica.
(1970)
available: Prospector
The Arrivants: A New World Trilogy. (1973)
available: Auraria and
through Prospector
Mother Poem. (1977)
available: through Prospector
The Development of Creole Society in Jamaica, 1770-1820.
Doctoral Dissertation 1968, University of Sussex (published 1973).
available: Auraria and
through Prospector
Other Exiles. (1975) Poems.
available: Auraria and
through Prospector
Word Making Man : Poem For Nicolas Guillen In Xaymaca (1979)
With Spanish version by J. R. Pereira.
Sun Poem. (1982)
available: through Prospector
Roots: Essay. (1986)
available: through Prospector
X/Self. (1987)
available: through Prospector
Middle Passages. (1992)
available: through Prospector
Trench Town Rock. (1994). Expanded from selection in Hambone10.
available: through Prospector
Dreamstories. (1994)
The Zea Mexican Diary, 7 Sept 1926-7 Sept 1986. (1993)
Deeply
emotional selections from the author's personal diary during his wife's
terminal illness.
available: through Prospector
Black + Blues. (1995).
available: Auraria and
through Prospector
Barabajan Poems 1492-1992. (1995)
Conversation with Nathaniel Mackey.
(1999)
available: through Prospector
Words Need Love Too. (2000)
available: through Prospector
Ancestors : A Reinvention Of Mother Poem, Sun Poem, And X/Self.
(2001)
available: Auraria and
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Brodber, Erna (Jamaica 1940 - )
Abandonment
of children in Jamaica. (1974) Institute of
Social and Economic Research, University of the West Indies.
available: through Prospector
Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home. (1980)
Myal. (1988)
available: through Prospector
Louisiana: A Novel. (1994)
available: Auraria and
through Prospector
Brown, Stewart (1951 - ) An English scholar who has contributed greatly
to the study of Caribbean literature and culture.
Zinder. (1986) Poetry.
Caribbean New Wave: Contemporary Short Stories. (Ed. S. Brown
1990).
available: Auraria and
through Prospector
Writers from Africa. (1989)
available: through Prospector
Lugard's Bridge. (1990) Poetry.
available: through Prospector
The Art of Derek Walcott. (1991)
available: Auraria and
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Caribbean Poetry Now. (Ed. S. Brown 1992).
available: Auraria and
through Prospector
The Heinemann Book of Caribbean Poetry. (Ed. S. Brown and I.
McDonald 1992). John Agard, Merle Collins, Derek Walcott, and others.
available: Auraria and
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Caribbean New Voices 1: A Forum for Caribbean Writing. (Ed. S.
Brown 1995).
available: through Prospector
The Art of Kamau Brathwaite. (1996)
Elsewhere: New and Selected
Poems. (1999)
available: through Prospector
The Oxford book of Caribbean short stories (1999 Ed. S. Brown
and J. Wickham)
available: through Prospector
All Are Involved: The Art
of Martin Carter. (2000)
available: through Prospector
Buffong, Jean (Grenada)
Jump-Up-And-Kiss-Me: Two Stories From Grenada. (1990)
Under the Silk Cotton Tree. (1992)
available: through Prospector
Snowflakes In The Sun. (1995)
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Carew, Jan (Guyana 1925 - ) Author of numerous works, including:
Black Midas. (1958) Also titled: A Touch of Midas.
available: German translation only (Schwarzer
Midas : Roman). See
Prospector
The Wild Coast. (1958)
The Last Barbarian. (1961)
Moscow Is Not My Mecca. (1964)
available: through Prospector
Green Winter. (1965) A novel about an African student in Russia.
available: through Prospector
The Third Gift. (1974) African folktale.
available: through Prospector
Save the Last Dance for Me. (1976)
The Children of the Sun. (1980)
available: Auraria and
through Prospector
Fulcrums of Change. (1988)
Also titled: African Presence
in the Americas.
available: Auraria and
through Prospector
Ghosts In Our Blood : With Malcolm X In Africa, England, And The
Caribbean. (1994)
available: through Prospector
Cargill, Morris (Jamaica)
Ian Fleming Introduces Jamaica. (Ed. M. Cargill 1965)
A Gallery of Nazis. (1978)
Jamaica Farewell. (1978)
Carnegie, James (Jamaica 1938 - )
Wages Paid. (1976) Also in Spanish translation by María Teresa Ortega.
available: through Prospector
The People Who Came. (1989)
Carpentier, Alejo (Cuba 1904-1980) A prolific author, critic
and commentator, some of his many works are:
The Lost Steps (Los pasos perdidos.) (1956) Available in Spanish
and English.
available: Auraria and
through Prospector
The Kingdom of This World (El reino de este mundo.) (1957)
Available in Spanish and English.
available: Auraria and
through Prospector
Explosion in a Cathedral (El siglo de las luces.) (1962)
available: Auraria and
through Prospector
War of Time (Guerra del tiempo.) (1970) Short stories.
available: Auraria and
through Prospector
Baroque Concerto (Concierto barroco.) (1974) Available in
Spanish and English.
available: Auraria and
through Prospector
Reasons of State (El recurso del método.) (1976)
Available in Spanish and English.
available: Auraria and
through Prospector
The Harp and the Shadow (El arpa y la sombra.) (1979)
available: Auraria and
through Prospector
The Chase (El acoso.) (1989) Available in Spanish and
English.
available: Auraria and
through Prospector
--Much more should be added here!--
Carter, Martin (Guyana 1927 - ) Winner of the Guyana 1989 Poetry
First Prize.
Poems of Resistance from Guyana (1964) Originally published as Poems
of Resistance from British Guyana and sometimes as just Poems
of Resistance.
Poems of Affinity, 1978-1985.
Poems: Spanish and English Selections (Poesías escogidas.)
(1999)
available: through Prospector
Selected Poems (1989) Introduction by Ian McDonald.
Césaire, Aimé (Martinique 1913 - 2008) Poet,
intellectual, journalist, politician, and social reformer,
Césaire's poetry explores the brutal experience of slavery and
cultural genocide at the root of Caribbean culture. His is the seminal
Francophone voice of the African-Caribbean experience. Césaire
actively collaborated with West African intellectuals such as
Léopold Sédar Senghor and Alione Diop, as well as
Africans elsewhere in the Caribbean and in the Americas and in Europe,
in the awakening of a Pan-African awareness, or Négritude, which
found its quintessential expression in Césaire's monumental poem
Notebook of a Return to the Native Land. Elected mayor of
Fort-de-France in 1945 (and a Communist Deputy to the French
Constituent Assembly), Césaire remained on the forefront of the
political struggle until his formal retiring in 1993. His literary
production has a depth and range of cultural understanding rarely
achieved by any writer. A few of his works are:
Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Cahier D'un Retour Au Pays
Natal.) (1939) The revised and extended version of Notebook
was published in 1956. English trans. by Clayton Eshleman & Annette Smith
also available.
available: Auraria
and through Prospector
The Miraculous Arms (Les Armes miraculeuses). (1946) A
collection of angry, surrealist poetry published in various journals in
the 1940s.
available: through
Prospector (French only)
Lost Body (Corps perdu). (1950) More poetry. English rrans. by Clayton Eshleman & Annette
Smith.
available: through
Prospector (English only)
Discourse on Colonialism (Discours Sur Le Colonialisme.) (1955)
A scathing analysis of the brutalities of colonialism and empire.
English trans. by Joan Pinkham also available.
available: Auraria
and through Prospector
Et les chiens se taisaient, tragédie.
(1956)
available: through
Prospector
Letter to Maurice Thorez. (1957)
available: through
Prospector
Ferrements: poèmes. (1960)
available: through
Prospector
Toussaint
Louverture: la Révolution française et le problème
colonial. (1961)
available: through
Prospector
Cadastre. (1961) Also available in English trans. by Emile Snyder
and Sanford Upson.
available: through
Prospector
The Tragedy of King Christophe (La Tragedie Du Roi Christophe.)
(1963) Set in the early days of Haitian independence, this drama faces
the stark realities of decolonization. English trans. by Ralph Manheim
also available.
available: Auraria
and through Prospector
A Season in the Congo (Une Saison au Congo.) (1966) Continues
the
theme of decolonization tragedy, this time surrounding the horrors of
the decolonized Belgian Congo (a nightmare that rages still).
English trans. by Ralph Manheim also available.
available: through
Prospector
Aimé Césaire, crivain
martiniquais. (1967)
available:
through Prospector
Return to My Native
Land. (1968) Cahier
D'un Retour Au Pays
Natal with parallel English translations by Emil Snyders.
available: through Prospector
Poesías. (1969)
Spanish translation of poems and an interview.
available: through Prospector
Une tempéte. (1969) A postcolonial reworking of
Shakespeare's The Tempest. English trans. by Richard Miller also available.
available: Auraria
and through Prospector
Tropiques. (1978)
available: through Prospector
Aime Césaire : some African
poems in English. (1981) Trans. by Clayton Eshleman & Annette
Smith.
available: through Prospector
Moi laminaire. (1982) A poetic retrospective of a life in poetry
and politics.
available: through
Prospector
Aimeé Césaire: The Collected Poetry. (1983)
Trans. by Clayton Eshleman &
Annette Smith.
available: Auraria
and through Prospector
Non-vicious Circle: Twenty Poems of
Aimé Césaire. (1984) / Translated by Gregson Davis.
available: through
Prospector
Aimeé Césaire: Lyrical and Dramatic
Poetry. (1992) Trans. by
Clayton Eshleman & Annette Smith.
available: Auraria
and through Prospector
La poésie. (1994) Ed. Daniel
Maximin & Gilles Carpentier.
available: through Prospector
Anthologie poetique. (1996)
Ed. Roger Toumson.
available: through Prospector
Chamoiseau, Patrick (Martinique)
Texaco. 1992 Winner of the prestigious Prix Goncourt.
Available in French and English.
available: Auraria and
through Prospector
Childhood (Antan d'enfance.) (1993) Available in French
and English.
available: Auraria and
through Prospector
Creole Folktales (Au temps de l'antan.) (1995)
available: through Prospector (English only)
School Days (Chemin-D'Ecole.) (1997)
available: through Prospector (English only)
Chronicle of Seven Sorrows (Chronique des sept misères.)
(1999) Available in French and English.
available: Auraria and
through Prospector
Seven dreams of Elmira (Elmire des sept bonheurs.) (1999)
available: through Prospector (English only)
Clarke, Austin (Barbados 1934 - )
The Survivors of the Crossing. (1964)
available: through Prospector
Amongst Thistles and Thorns. (1965)
The Meeting Point. (1967)
available: through Prospector
When He Was Free and Young and He Used to Wear Silks. (1971)
available:Auraria and
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Storm of Fortune. (1973)
available: Auraria and
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The Bigger Light. (1975)
available: Auraria and
through Prospector
The Prime Minister. (1977)
available: Auraria
Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack. (1980).
A memoir.
available: Auraria and
through Prospector
When Women Rule. (1985)
Nine Men Who Laughed. (1986) Short stories.
Proud Empires. (1986)
In This City. (1992)
There Are No Elders. (1993)
available: through Prospector
A Passage Back Home: A Personal Reminiscence of Sam Selvon.
(1994)
The Origin of Waves. (1997)
available: through Prospector
Pig tails 'n bread fruit: a culinary Memoir (1999)
available: through Prospector
The Polished Hoe : a Novel. (2003)
available: Auraria and
through Prospector
Cliff, Michelle (Jamaica 1956 - )
Claiming an Identity They Taught Me to Despise. (1980)
available: through Prospector
Abeng. (1984) Novel of race identity / social struggle in late
50s Jamaica.
available: Auraria and
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The Land of Look Behind: Prose and Poetry. (1985)
available: Auraria and
through Prospector
No Telephone to Heaven. (1987) A Jamaican story of spiritual
struggle.
available: Auraria and
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Bodies of Water. (1990) Short stories about U. S. multicultural
clashes.
available: through Prospector
Free Enterprise. (1993)
available: Auraria and
through Prospector
The Store of a Million Items : Stories.
(1998)
available: through Prospector
The short story "Columba" is anthologized in Green Cane and Juicy
Flotsam. Eds. Carmen C. Esteves & Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert
(see listing under Esteves or Paravisini-Gebert)
Collins, Merle (Grenada) An author known for using the native
idiom of Grenada.
Because the Dawn Breaks! Poems Dedicated to the Grenadian People.
(1985)
Angel. (1987)
available: through Prospector
Rain Darling. (1990) Short stories set in Grenada.
Lady in a boat. (1993)
available: through Prospector
The Colour of Forgetting. (1995)
Collymore, Frank (Barbados 1883 - 1980) Teacher, poet, and
fiction writer, he was mentor to such authors as Derek Walcott, George
Lamming, and Austin Clarke.
Thirty Poems. (1944)
available: through Prospector
Notes for a glossary of words and phrases of Barbadian dialect
(1970)
Selected Poems. (1971)
The Man Who Loved Attending Funerals and Other Stories. (1993) A
collection of Collymore's influential fiction.
available: Auraria and
through Prospector
Condé, Maryse (Guadeloupe 1937 - ) A popular
post-colonial, post-modern novelist, Condé has lived in France,
west Africa (Guinea, Ivory Coast) and the U.S. Most of her works are
available in excellent English translations. Her first novels are set
in West Africa in postcolonial times; she then turned to West African
colonial history in Segu. The negative reaction to her novels
in Africa led her to turn to the Caribbean and the United States for
her later works. An ingenious, eclectic writer, incredibly well
schooled in many literary traditions, Condé mixes the triangle
of Europe, Africa and the Americas in novels that sweep through many
generations and cover vast territories, challenging traditional views
of history, culture and personal identity, and always painting the
agony of life and death in brilliant, enigmatic hues. Her many works
include:
Hérémakhonon. (1976) In Condé's first
novel, a French Caribbean woman seeking a new life in postcolonial
Africa has enigmatic reactions to the contrast of corruption and
self-sacrifice served up by a newly formed and quickly crumbling
country.
available: through Prospector
Cahier d'un retour au pays natal :
Césaire : analyse critique. (1978)
available: through
Prospector
La civilisation du bossale :
réflexions sur la littérature orale de la Guadeloupe et
de la Martinique. (1978)
available: through Prospector
La parole des femmes : essai sur des
romancières des Antilles de langue française.
(1979)
available: through
Prospector
A Season in Rhiata (Une saison á Rhiata) (1981) Like Hérémakhonon,
this novel portrays (this time in a more sympathetic,
pessimistic tone) the farce of corruption and terror plaguing
postcolonial Africa.
available: Auraria and through
Prospector
Ségou. (1984 & 1985) Set in the ancient city of Segu
in Mali (among other places), this mammoth novel, published in two
parts (Ségou: les murailles de terre and Ségou:
la terre en miettes), covers many generations of a family of Segu
confronting social upheaval as the power of Islam, moving from the
east, challenges the ancient animist cultures of the western Sudan on
the eve of European conquest. An amazing marketplace of characters,
story, culture, history, violence, and human desires and failings. The
English translation is published under the titles, Segu for
part one and Children of Segu for part two.
available: through Prospector
Pays
mêlé; suivi de, Nanna-ya.
(1985) English translations published in 1999 (See below).
available: through Prospector
I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem (Moi, Tituba, Sorciére . . .
Noire de Salem). (1986) A brilliant post-modern novel recreating
the lost life of Tituba, the black slave accused at the Salem witch
trials. This novel revels in its lack of historical fact, from the
opening compression of West African history, to Tituba's feminist
conversations in prison with Hestor Pryne, a character of fiction (of
Hawthorn's novel), driving home the main point that as an African, a
Caribbean and a slave, Tituba was forgotten by history. Contrasting the
brutality of slavery with the self-inflicted brutality of puritan life
in Salem, this novel gives a postcolonial, Caribbean view of this
sinister chapter in New England history while continually resonating
with late twentieth century social problems. A telling contrast to
Miller's The Crucible.
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Tree of Life (La vie scélérate).
(French 1987;
English by Victoria Reiter1992)
Covering
many generations of history and bouncing among the geographic triangle
(Europe, Africa, the Americas), this novel sets family history within
world history in ways reminiscent of many modern novelists from Latin
America, Asia and elsewhere (Allende, Esquivel, Tan), moving from the
digging of the Panama canal in the early part of the century to
Rastafarian activism in the latter part. A stark view of the inevitably
banal cruelty of life ending with a ray of hope or confident resolve.
available: through Prospector
Pension les Alizés : pièce
en cinq tableaux. (1988)
available: through Prospector
Haïti
chérie : une histoire. (1991)
available: through Prospector
Hugo le terrible. (1991)
available: through Prospector
Crossing the Mangrove (Traversée de la mangrove). (1992)
A
Caribbean funeral novel, filled with characters, in the vein of
Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, intricately crafted and deliciously
Caribbean.
available: Auraria and through Prospector
The Last of the
African Kings (Les derniers rois mages). (1992)
Inspired by The Viceroy of Ouidah, Bruce Chatwin's stark novel
of the brutally violent West African kingdom of Dahomey, Condé's
novel, ever bouncing among several historical eras and geographical
locations, traces the descendants of Dahomey's last king, deposed by
the French and exiled to Martinique. The frame of the novel is the
character Spero, a modern Caribbean descendant living in South Carolina
with his unsympathetic American wife, a professor at a local college.
The despair and brutality of many generations resolve themselves in
Spero's decision at the end of the novel to eschew suicide for the
simple conflict of growing old with a wife who never understood him and
no longer loves him.
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La
colonie du nouveau monde : roman. (1993)
available: through
Prospector
La migration des cœurs : roman.
(1995)
available: through
Prospector
Conversations With Maryse Condé. (1996) By Francoise Pfaff.
available: Auraria and through
Prospector
Windward Heights (La migration des coeurs). (French 1998;
English by Richard Philcox 1999) A
postcolonial, Caribbean reworking of Emily Bronte's Wuthering
Heights.
available: Auraria and through Prospector
Tales
from the heart : true tales from my childhood (Le cœur
à rire et à pleurer : contes vrais de mon enfance).
(French 1999; English by Richard Philcox 2001)
available: Auraria and through
Prospector
Desirada: Roman. (1997) English translation published in 2000. A
Caribbean woman's journey through life (including in France and the
U.S.) and into an ultimately rejected self-discovery.
available: Auraria and through Prospector
Land
of Many Colors and Nana-Ya.
(1999) Two short novels. English translations by Nicole Ball.
available: Auraria and through Prospector
Célanire Cou-coupé : roman fantastique. (2000)
available: through
Prospector
In the Time of the Revolution. (2003) Drama.
Available to some institutions on-line. See Prospector.
La Belle Créole: Roman.
(2003)
available: through Prospector
Histoire de la femme cannibale : roman.
(2003)
available: through
Prospector
Maryse
Condé speaks from the heart (video) Produced by Ann
Armstrong Scarboro; Directed by Susan Wilcox. Boulder, CO (2003).
available: through
Prospector
Who Slashed Celanire's Throat? : a
fantastical tale (2002; English by Richard Philcox 2004)
available: through
Prospector
The short story "Three Women in Manhattan" is anthologized in Green
Cane and Juicy Flotsam. Eds. Carmen C. Esteves & Lizabeth
Paravisini-Gebert (see listing under Esteves or Paravisini-Gebert)
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Danticat, Edwidge (Haiti 1969 - ) Great female Haitian author with
an MFA in creative writing from Brown University.
Breath, Eyes, Memory. (1994) Based on her MFA thessis, My Turn in the Fire.
available: Auraria and through Prospector
Krik? Krak! (1995)
available: Auraria and through Prospector
The Farming of Bones. (1998) Set in the DR in 1937, migrant Haitian laborers are
victimized by the nationalist violence sweeping the country.
available: Auraria and through Prospector
The Butterfly's Way: Voices from the Haitian Dyaspora [Sic] In the
United States. (2001 Ed. E. Danticat)
available: Auraria and through Prospector
After the Dance: A Walk through Carnival in Jacmel, Haiti. (2002)
available: through Prospector
Behind the Mountains. (2002)
available: through Prospector
The Coriolis Effect. (2002)
available: through Prospector
The Dew Breaker. (2004)
available: Auraria and through Prospector
Anacaona, Golden Flower. (2005) A Taino woman resists colonialism (1490-1504) -- juvenile fiction.
available: through Prospector
Brother, I'm Dying. (2007) Tells the story of her uncle who died in a DHS immigrant detention
center in Miami while seeking political asylum.
available: Auraria and through Prospector
D'Costa, Jean (Jamaica 1937 - )
Sprat Morrison. (1972)
Escape to Last Man Peak. (1975)
Voices in the Wind. (1978)
Roger
Mais : The Hills Were Joyful Together and Brother Man. (1978)
available: through Prospector
Our Way: A Collection of Caribbean Short Stories for Youngsters.
(1978 Ed. J. D'Costa)
Voices in Exile: Jamaican Texts of the 18th and 19th Centuries.
(1989 w/ Barbara Lalla
available: through Prospector
Language in Exile: Three Hundred Years of Jamaican Creole. (1990
w/ Barbara Lalla)
available: through Prospector
De Lisser, Herbert G. (Jamaica 1878 - 1944) Author of stories of
Jamaican slave life.
Jane: A Story of Jamaica. (1913)
Jane's Career: A Story of Jamaica. (1914)
available:
Susan Proudleigh. (1915)
Triumphant Squalitone: A tropical extravaganza. (1917)
Revenge: A Tale of Old Jamaica. (1919)
The White Witch of Rosehall. (1929) The author's most widely
read book, this novel deals with Obeah and plantation life in early
Jamaica.
available:
Under the Sun: A Jamaican Comedy. (1937)
Psyche. (1952) A slave mistress becomes a planter's wife.
Morgan's Daughter. (1953) A story of a mixed race descendant of
the infamous pirate.
The Cup and the Lip. (1956)
available:
The Arawak Girl. (1958)
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Edgell, Zee (Belize)
Beka Lamb. (1982) Life, politics, family and religion in Belize.
available: Auraria and through Prospector
In Times Like These. (1991) The protagonist returns to Belize
with her children on the eve of independence as her personal turmoil
mixes with the social turmoil of postcolonial politics.
available: through Prospector
The Festival of San Joaquin (1997)
available: through Prospector
Esteves, Carmen C. (Puerto Rico )
Editor (with Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert) of Green Cane and Juicy
Flotsam: Short Stories by Caribbean Women.
available: Auraria and through Prospector
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Fernández Olmos, Margarite. Author of important
studies of Latin American literature, including female writers and
Rudolfo Anaya, but her Caribbean work (w/ Lizabeth
Paravisini-Gebert) mainly concerns religion.
Remaking A Lost Harmony
- Stories from the Hispanic Caribbean. (1996 w/ Lizabeth
Paravisini-Gebert).
available: through Prospector
Sacred
Possessions : Vodou, Santería, Obeah, and the Caribbean.
(1997 w/ Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert).
available: through Prospector
Healing Cultures : Art and
Religion as Curative Practices in the Caribbean and Its Diaspora. (2001 w/ Lizabeth
Paravisini-Gebert).
available: through Prospector
Creole
religions of the Caribbean : an introduction from Vodou and
Santería to Obeah and Espiritismo. (2003 w/ Lizabeth
Paravisini-Gebert).
available: through Prospector
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García Ramis, Magali (Puerto Rico 1946-) Recieved
Guggenheim Fellowship in 1989.
La Familia de Todos Nosotros (1976) Short story collection.
available: through Prospector
Happy days, Uncle Sergio (Felices días tío Sergio.)
(1986) A novel. English translation by Carmen C. Esteves (1995)
available: through Prospector
La ciudad que me habita (1993) Essays.
available: through Prospector
Las noches del riel de oro (1995) A novel.
The short story "Cocuyo Flower" is anthologized in Green Cane and
Juicy Flotsam. Eds. Carmen C. Esteves & Lizabeth
Paravisini-Gebert (see listing under Esteves or Paravisini-Gebert)
Garvey, Amy Jacques (Jamaica) Wife and perennial helpmeet of the
great social reformer Marcus Garvey. She has edited several books
on Garvey's philosophy, but her major work remains:
Garvey and Garveyism (1963) The definitive biography of the man
and the movement.
available: Auraria and through Prospector
Garvey, Marcus (Jamaica 1887 - 1940) One of the greatest black
leaders of the 20th century in the Caribbean and the United States,
highly influential in the Pan-African movement, an icon for many.
Aims and objects of movement for solution of Negro problem outlined:
asks white race to be considerate and sympathetic; help Negroes to have
a nation of their own in Africa; friendly appeal of Negro for his race.
(1924) Reprinted by the Universal Negro Improvement Association
(1966-69)
The Tragedy of White Injustice.
(1927) Ed. Amy J. Garvey.
available: Electronic
Resource available through some institutions. See Propsector.
The Black man. Journal edited by Garvey in Kingston, Jamaica,
1933-May/June 1934, and London, Nov. 1934-June 1939. Compiled and
reprinted in 1975.
available: through Prospector
Message to the people : the course of African philosophy.
Reprinted 1986.
available: through Prospector
The Negro World Magazine, Marcus Garvey, founder and managing
editor ; 1917-July 16, 1932. Available on Microfilm.
Philosophy and opinions of Marcus Garvey. and More
Philosophy and opinions of Marcus Garvey. (1968-1969)
Ed. Amy J. Garvey and E. U. Essien-Udom.
available: Auraria and through Prospector
The
Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers. (1983) Ed. Robert A.
Hill.
available: Auraria and through Prospector
The Poetical Works of Marcus Garvey.
(1983) Ed. Tony Martin.
available: through Prospector
Glissant, Edouard (Martinique 1928 - ) Poet and novelist awarded
the Prix Renaudot in 1958, highly influential in Caribbean literary
circles. A few of his works are:
The Ripening (Le lezarde.) (1958) A novel of political intrigue
and murder in Martinique. Also availbe in English translation by
Michael Dash.
available: Auraria and through Prospector
Le
sang rivé; poèmes. (1961)
available: through Prospector
The
fourth century (Le
quatrième siècle). (1964) Also available
in English translation by Betsy Wing.
available: through Prospector
Poèmes: Un champ d'iˆles, La terre
inquiète, Les Indes. (1965)
available: through Prospector
L'Intention
poétique. (1969)
available: through Prospector
Malemort
: roman. (1975)
available: through Prospector
Caribbean Discourse (Le discours antillais). (1981) Also
available in English
translation by J. Michael Dash .
available: Auraria and through Prospector
La case du commandeur : roman.
(1981)
available: through Prospector
Monsieur
Toussaint. (1981) Also available in English translation by
Joseph G. Foster And Barbara A. Franklin.
available: through Prospector
Le sel noir ; Le sang rivé ; Boises.
(1983)
available: through Prospector
Pays
rêvé pays réel : poeme. (1985)
available: through Prospector
Soleil de la conscience. (1986)
available: through Prospector
Mahagony : roman. (1987)
available: through Prospector
Poetics
of Relation (Poétique de la relation).
(1990) Also available in English translation by Betsy
Wing.
available: through Prospector
Tout-monde : roman. (1993)
available: through Prospector
Poèmes
complets. (1994)
available: through Prospector
Faulkner, Mississippi (1996) Also available in English
translation by Barbara Lewis & Thomas C. Spear
available: through Prospector
Traité du tout-monde. (1997)
available: through Prospecto
Black salt : poems (Sel noir.) (1998) Also available in English
translation by Betsy Wing.
available: Auraria and through Prospector
Le
monde incréé : poétrie. (2000)
available: through Prospector
Pays
rêvé, pays réel : suivi de Fastes ; et de Les
grands chaos. (2000)
available: through Prospector
Ormerod
: roman. (2003)
available: through Prospector
Goodison, Lorna (Jamaica 1947 - ) Artist and author, Goodison
has taught at several American universities and now lives back in
Jamaica. Her work emphasizes the struggles of poor people, especially
women, in the Caribbean world.
Tamarind Seasons. (1980) Poetry about the hard life of common
people.
I Am Becoming My Mother. (1986) This volume won the
Commonwealth Prize
for poetry for the Caribbean region.
Heartease (1988)
Baby Mother and the King of Swords. (1990)
Selected Poems. (1992)
available: through Prospector
To Us, All Flowers Are Roses: Poems. (1995)
available: through Prospector
Turn Thanks: Poems. (1995)
available: through Prospector
Guinea Woman : New and Selected Poems.
(2000)
available: through Prospector
Guy, Rosa (Trinidad & Tobago)
Bird at My Window. (1965)
available: through Prospector
The Friends. (1973)
available: through Prospector
Ruby: A Novel. (1976)
available: through Prospector
The Disappearance. (1979)
available: Auraria and through Prospector
Edith Jackson. (1979)
available: through Prospector
Mirror of Her Own. (1981)
available: through Prospector
Mother Crocodile (Maman-Caiman.) (1981) Story by Birago
Diop, translated & adapted by Rosa Guy.
available: Auraria and through Prospector
A Measure of Time. (1983)
available: through Prospector
New Guys Around the Block. (1983)
available: through Prospector
Paris, Pee Wee, and Big Dog. (1984)
available: Auraria and through Prospector
My Love, My Love or, The Peasant Girl. (1985)
available: through Prospector
And I Heard a Bird Sing. (1987)
available: through Prospector
The Ups and Downs of Carl Davis III. (1989)
available: Auraria and through Prospector
Billy the Great. (1991)
available: Auraria and through Prospector
The Music of Summer. (1992)
available: Auraria and through Prospector
The Sun, the Sea, a Touch of the Wind.
(1995)
available: through Prospector
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Harris, Wilson (Guyana 1924 - ) Poet and novelist, twice winner of the
Guyana Prize for Literature (1987 & 2002) and the Premio Mondello dei Cinque Continenti (1992),
Harris is one of the great English voices of Caribbean culture.
Fetish. (1951) Poetry -- using the pseudonym Kona Waruk.
Eternity to Season. (1952) More poetry -- also as Kona Waruk.
The Well and the Land. (1952) Poems.
Eternity to Season: Poems of Separation and Reunion. (1954)
Palace of the Peacock. (1960) First novel in The Guyana Quartet.
A surreal journey of grand intensity, like Conrad's Heart of Darkness, only stranger,
deeper, with a heavy taste of South America. A self-proclaimed patrón and a motely crew of men
chase "his" native workers up a river after they have fled from
servitude. The crew meet death in many ways, ending in a surreal climb
up a waterfall and into the universal spirit. This is the
novel that made Harris great.
available: through Prospector
The Far Journey of Oudin. (1961) Next in The Guyana Quartet.
Set within a Guyanese multicultural mix so blurred as to mute essential differences, the novel
begins with the untimely death of Oudin which thwarts the worldly scheming of Ram,
the evil but banal money-lender desperate for the ultimate victim and an heir for his
devilry. It then travels back to trace the history of Oudin's supposed half-brothers
who cheated him out of the inheritance. Haunted by their crime, they fail in worldly
pursuits and meet death in poignant ways that etch the line between
the frivolity of mortality and the surreal mystery of death and spirit. Beti, Oudin's
wife by abduction, proves pivotal to the interaction through her intuitive sense of life,
death, freedom and proportion only partially realized through the lines of a heavily
circumscribed life.
available:through Prospector
The Whole Armour. (1962) The Guyana Quartet number three.
The Tiger of death (the Jaguar) is the mythical presence that haunts this novel.
Magda, a local prostitute in the Pomeroon area of Guyana, begs Abram to hide her son Cristo,
who has been falsely accused of killing the boyfriend of the young virgin Sharon.
When Abram dies of a heart-attack while he is hiding Cristo, Magda believes that
Cristo has killed him, but pretends to the world that Abram’s body, much mutilated by birds,
is her son Cristo, while he runs away to live in the bush. Cristo’s encounters in the wilderness
with natives, ghosts and the Tiger lead him to timeless insights about life, death and
the universal soul. At the false wake Magda holds for Cristo, Sharon’s new fiancé is killed
in a drunken brawl instigated by Sharon’s father, Peet. Meanwhile Magda has told Sharon the truth,
delivering to her a letter from Cristo. Peet goes insane, and Sharon on impulse flees into the
wilderness where she finds Cristo and makes love to him. They decide that he should give himself
up to the authorities, though they will probably not believe his innocence. The novel ends with
the capture of Cristo by the jungle police and the foreshadowing of Cristo’s execution. However,
Sharon’s pregnancy by Cristo also foreshadows the potential for new life to emerge, free from the
fate and degradations that perennially haunt the people.
available: through Prospector
The Secret Ladder. (1963) The Guyana Quartet the last. Fenwick is a government
surveyor collecting data on the Canje River, possibly for a dam project. He has a hard time
understanding the men in his crew who display a low level of insolence and seem obsessed with
gambling. The local inhabitants of the region are descendants of runaway slaves, led by
Poseidon, a very old man who represents a wild freedom, despite the poverty of their existence,
and has a god-like status for his people and many of the crew, including Fenwick, at least in
his musings on philosophy and society which he at times pens to his widowed mother. Poseidon
and his people hear the rumor that this survey will lead to the confiscation of their land by
the government and begin to sabotage it in minor ways. One of the crew, Perez, brings his
young wife, Catalena, to the area, ostensibly to care for Poseidon, but he also prostitutes
her to his gambling buddies. As tensions among the crew, the locals, and Fenwick slowly
escalate, Fenwick rejects the advice of his aide, Jordan, and the foreman, Weng, that he should
be strict with the crew and violently suppress the locals. These tensions come to a head when,
Bryant, the crewman who pilots the boat and reveres Poseidon, is sent to placate the locals.
Arriving at Poseidon’s house, Bryant decides he loves Catalena and will rescue her from her
life of degradation. Together they search for Poseidon and his people who are meeting secretly
to discuss their plan of action. Seeing them, Poseidon, misinterprets their presence as spying
and in attacking them is accidentally killed. The people in their rage put Bryant and Catalena
on trial, intending to execute them. That very night two locals have had an altercation with a
crewman, Chiung, who is serving as the night-reader. Fenwick finds Chiung knocked out and
believes he is dead, though this turns out not to be so. The two locals, though, also believe
that they have killed Chiung. When they arrive at the trial and tell the other locals that
they have killed a crewman, the locals panic, release Bryant and Catalena and, abandoning the
lives and land they had sought to protect, flee into the wilderness.
Wilson Harris in his younger days was himself a government
surveyor and worked on jobs such as the one described in this book. Throughout this novel
there are tenuous connections to the previous three such as Bryant’s boat being called Palace
of the Peacock, reference to the Oudin savannahs, the crewman Van Brock’s tangent about his
youth in the Pomeroon area, and the rumors of his father or grandfather who had drowned either
on the coast or in a waterfall deep in the interior. Such loose connections bind the four
novels into The Guyana Quartet.
available: through Prospector
Heartland. (1964) Gold panners in the interior of Guyana, known as pork-knockers,
live a unique and primitve life which is threatened by encroaching
development.
available: through Prospector
The Eye of the Scarecrow. (1965) The narrator's youth in a
Guyanese seaport is juxtaposed with events in the interior years
later as modern materialism clashes with the rich mysteries of the jungle.
available: through Prospector
The Waiting Room. (1967) Another novel of Guyana. A blind woman, recovering from
several medical procedures, sits alone in a room filled with objects and memories from
her past.
available: through Prospector
Tradition, the Writer and Society. (1967) "Art and Criticism,"
"Tradition and The West Indian Novel," "Struggle of the Modern," and
"C. L. R. James's Introduction to Tradition and The West Indian Novel,"
and other essays.
Tumatumari. (1968)
available:through Prospector
Ascent to Omai. (1970)
available: through Prospector
The Sleepers of Roraima: A Carib Trilogy. (1970)
The Age Of the Rainmakers. (1971) A collection of four "fables."
Illustrated with line drawings by Karen Usborne.
Black Marsden; A Tabula Rasa Comedy. (1972)
available: through Prospector
Fossil and Psyche. (1974)
available: through Prospector
Companions of the Day and Night. (1975) Further development of
the tabula rasa theme in Black Marsden. Strange, mystical
journeys through Mexico narrated in diary form.
available: through Prospector
DaSilva DaSilva's Cultivated Wilderness and Genesis of the Clowns.
(1977)
available: through Prospector
The Tree Of The Sun. (1978) Sequel to Da Silva.
available: through Prospector
Angel At The Gate. (1982)
available: through Prospector
The Womb of Space: The Cross-Cultural Imagination. (1983)
available: Auraria and through Prospector
Carnival. More spiritual journeys through Caribbean space-time
ala carnival and mask symbolism. Part of The Carnival Trilogy.
available:through Prospector
The Infinite Rehearsal. (1987) More Carnival Trilogy.
available: Auraria and through Prospector (Auraria copy
seems to be missing.)
The Four Banks of the River of Space. (1990) Carnival Trilogy
complete.
available: through Prospector
Resurrection at Sorrow Hill. (1993) Love, violence, life and
death in Guyana.
available: through Prospector
History, Fable & Myth In The Caribbean And Guianas. (1995)
Introduction By Selwyn R. Cudjoe.
Jonestown. (1996) A fictional narrative of the Jonestown
debacle.
available: through Prospector
Selected
Essays of Wilson Harris : The Unfinished Genesis of the Imagination.
(1999) Ed. A.J.M. Bundy.
available: through Prospector
Dark Jester. (2001).
The Mask of the Beggar. (2003).
The Ghost of Memory. (2006).
Harrison, Hubert (St. Croix 1883-1927) Teacher, activist,
speaker, and writer, active in Harlem in the early decades of the 20th
century, Harrison is regarded as an intellectual giant by many people.
A Hubert Harrison Reader. (2001 Ed. J. B. Perry) A massive,
carefully annotated collection of writing on a myriad of subjects
concerning the rise of African peoples in the modern world.
available: Auraria and through Prospector
Hearne, John (Jamaica 1925 or 1926 - )
Voices Under the Window. (1955)
Stranger at the Gate. (1956)
available: through Prospector
The Faces of Love. (1957) Also published as The Eye of the
Storm
available: through Prospector only in German translation (Gesichter der Liebe).
The Autumn Equinox. (1959)
available: through Prospector
The Land of the Living. (1961)
available: through Prospector
Carifesta Forum: An Anthology of 20 Caribbean Voices. (1976 Ed.
J. Hearne)
The Sure Salvation. (1981)
available: through Prospector
Heath, Roy A. K.
(Guyana)
A Man Come Home. (1974)
The Murderer: A Novel. (1978)
available: through Prospector
From the Heat of the Day. (1979) Republished in The Armstrong Trilogy
(1994). See below.
available: through Prospector
One Generation. (1981) Republished in The Armstrong Trilogy
(1994). See below.
Genetha: A Novel . (1981) Republished in The Armstrong Trilogy
(1994). See below.
Kwaku or The man who could not keep his mouth shut. (1982)
available: through Prospector
Orealla. (1984)
The Shadow Bride. (1988)
available: through Prospector
Shadows Round the Moon: Caribbean Memoirs. (1990)
The Armstrong Trilogy.
(1994) Contains: From the Heat
of the Day, One Generation,
and Genetha.
available: through Prospector
The Ministry of Hope : A Novel (1997)
available: through Prospector
Hercules, Frank (Trinidad & Tobago)
Where the Hummingbird Flies. (1961)
available: through Prospector
I Want a Black Doll. (1967)
available: through Prospector
American Society and Black Revolution. (1972)
available: Auraria and through Prospector
On Leaving Paradise: A Novel. (1980)
available: through Prospector
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Iremonger, Lucille (Jamaica )
Creole. (1950)
The Cannibals. (1952)
Love and the Princess. (1958) Later published as Love and
the Princesses.
available: through Prospector
How Do I Love Thee. (1976)
available: Auraria
My sister, my love. (1981) About Lord Byron.
available: through Prospector
Orphans of the heart. (1984)
Ishmael, Odeen (Guyana)
Amerindian Legends of Guyana. (1995)
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James, C. L. R. [Cryil Lionel Robert] (Trinidad & Tobago
1901 - 1989)
The Case for West-Indian Self Government.
(1933)
available: through Prospector
Minty Alley: a novel. (1936)
available: Auraria and through Prospector
World Revolution, 1917-1936 : The Rise And Fall Of The Communist
International. (1973)
available: through Prospector
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo
Revolution. (1938) French trans. by Pierre Naville also
available.
available: Auraria and through Prospector
Stalin, A Critical Survey Of Bolshevism. (1939)
available:Aurariaand through Prospector
Mariners, Renegades, and Castaways : the Story of Herman Melville
and the World We Live in. (1953)
available: through Prospector
Beyond a Boundary. (1963)
available: through Prospector
Wilson Harris : A Philosophical Approach. (1965)
A History of Negro Revolt. (1969)
available: Auraria and through Prospector
A History of Pan-African Revolt.
(1969)
available: through Prospector (possibly)
The Future in the Present : Selected
Writings. (1977)
available: Auraria and through Prospector
Nkrumah and the Ghana revolution. (1977)
available:through Prospector
Notes On Dialectics : Hegel, Marx, Lenin. (1980)
available: through Prospector
Spheres Of Existence : Selected Writings. (1980)
available: Auraria and through Prospector
At The Rendezvous Of
Victory : Selected Writings. (1984)
available: through Prospector
State Capitalism And World Revolution. (1986)
Cricket. (1986)
The C.L.R. James Reader. (1992)
available: through Prospector
American civilization. (1993 ?)
available: through Prospector
C.L.R.
James on the "Negro question". (1996). Ed. by Scott McLemee.
available: through Prospector
Special
Delivery : the Letters of C.L.R. James to Constance Webb, 1939-1948.
(1996) Ed. by Anna Grimshaw.
available: Auraria and through Prospector
Marxism for our times : C.L.R. James on revolutionary organization.
(1999) Introduction by Martin Glaberman.
available: Auraria and through Prospector
Letters from London : seven
essays. (2003) Ed.
by Nicholas Laughlin, Intro. by Kenneth Ramchand
available: through Prospector
James, Kelvin Christopher (Trinidad & Tobago)
Secrets: a novel. (1993)
available: through Prospector
Jumping Ship And Other Stories. (1992)
available: through Prospector
Fling With A Demon Lover. (1996)
available: through Prospector
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Khan, Ismith (Trinidad & Tobago)
The Jumbie Bird. (1961)
The Obeah Man. (1964)
available: through Prospector
The Crucifixion. (1987)
A Day in the Country and Other Stories. (1994)
Kincaid, Jamaica (Antigua 1949 - ) Born Elaine Potter
Richardson, she chose her name to invoke the West Indies and because
she liked the sound of it. A working person "discovered" by the
publishers, especially William Shawn of The New Yorker.
At the Bottom of the River. (1983) Ten short stories, including
"Girl."
available: Auraria and through Prospector
Annie John. (1985) A short bildungsroman set in Antigua.
available: Auraria and through Prospector
Annie, Gwen, Lilly, Pam and Tulip. (1986) Limited edition short
story with illustrations by E. Fischl. Reprinted in 1989.
available: through Prospector
A Small Place. (1988) Essays about islands, tourists and
natives.
available: Auraria and through Prospector
Lucy. (1990) Coming to NY to work as an au pair.
available: Auraria and through Prospector
The Autobiography of My Mother. (1996) Life on Dominica.
available: Auraria and through Prospector
My Brother. (1997)
available: Auraria and through Prospector
Poetics of place. (1993)
Photographs by Lynn Geesaman / Essay by Jamaica Kincaid.
available: Auraria and through Prospector
My Garden (Book). (1999)
available: Auraria and through Prospector
Talk Stories. (2001)
available: through Prospector
Mr. Potter. (2002)
available: Auraria and through Prospector
The widely anthologized short story "Girl" is available in Green
Cane and Juicy Flotsam. Eds. Carmen C. Esteves & Lizabeth
Paravisini-Gebert (see listing under Esteves or Paravisini-Gebert)
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LaFerriére, Dany (Haiti)
How to Make Love to a Negro (Comment Faire L'amour Avec Un
Nègre Sans Se Fatiguer.) (1987) Original and English
translation both available.
available: through Prospector
Eroshima. (1991)
An Aroma of Coffee. (1993)
available: through Prospector (English translation only)
Why Must A Black Writer Write About Sex? (Cette Grenade Dans La Main
Du Jeune Nègre Est-Elle Une Arme Ou Un Fruit?) (1994)
available: through Prospector (English translation only)
Dining with the dictator (Gout des jeunes filles.) (1994) A
young Haitian boy accidentally becomes the target of Duvalier's hated
Tontons Macoutes. While hiding and observing in a house of wild young
women, he learns much about life!
available: through Prospector (English translation only)
A Drifting Year. (1997)
Lamming, George (Barbados 1927 - )
In The Castle of My Skin. (1953)
available: through Prospector
The Emigrants. (1954)
available: Auraria and through Prospector
Of Age and Innocence. (1958)
available: through Prospector
Season of Adventure. (1960)
available: through Prospector
Water With Berries. (1971)
available:Auraria and through Prospector
Natives of My Person. (1972)
available: through Prospector
The Pleasures of Exile. (1992)
available: through Prospector
Lovelace, Earl (Trinidad & Tobago 1935 - )
While Gods are Falling. (1965)
available: through Prospector
The Schoolmaster. (1968) A small village's values come in
conflict with the progress of the modern world.
available: Auraria and through Prospector
The Dragon Can't Dance. (1979)
available: through Prospector
The Wine of Astonishment. (1982) Another chronicle of a small
community facing modern challenges.
available: through Prospector
Jestina's Calypso and other plays. (1984)
available: through Prospector
A Brief Conversion and Other Stories. (1988) Including "The Fire
Eater's Journey," and "Joebell and America."
available: through Prospector
Salt: A Novel. (1996)
available:through Prospector
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Mais, Roger (Jamaica 1905 - 1955) The lack of Mais titles
in Colorado libraries is disheartening. Brother Man, at least, should be
widely available! Some of these titles are now available through
Prospector from the University of Wyoming.
And Most of All Man. (1945)
Face and Other Stories. (1946)
The Hills Were Joyful Together. (1953) Prequel to Brother
Man, this novel reveals the squalid poverty of the common Jamaican.
available: through Prospector (only in Spanish translation by
Ester Muñiz)
Brother Man. (1954) The Rastafarian movement among impoverished
Jamaicans.
Black Lightning. (1955)
The three novels of Roger Mais (1966) Includes The Hills
Were Joyful Together, Brother Man, and Black Lightning.
Introduction by Norman W. Manley.
Listen, The Wind and Other Stories. (1986)
Marshall, Paule (United States & Barbados 1929 - ) A teacher
of creative writing at Virginia Commonwealth University, Marshall's
stories evoke the multicultural mix of the United States, the
Caribbean, and South America.
Brown Girl, Brownstones. (1959)
available: Auraria and through Prospector
Soul Clap Hands and Sing. (1961)
available: Auraria and through Prospector
The Chosen Place, the Timeless People. (1969)
available: Auraria and through Prospector
Praisesong for the Widow. (1983) An American widow on a
Caribbean cruise is driven by a dream of her childhood and the memory
of the folktale of Igbo landing into an incredible journey of
self-discovery. One of the best novels ever written.
available: Auraria and through Prospector
Reena and Other Stories. (1984)
available: through Prospector
Merle: A Novella and Other Stories. (1985)
Daughters. (1991)
available: Auraria and through Prospector
The Fisher King: A Novel (2000)
available: Auraria and through Prospector
McCartney, Norma (Trinidad & Tobago)
Tales of the Immortelles - (Caribbean Folk Tales). (1989)
McDonald, Ian (Trinidad & Tobago)
The Humming-Bird Tree. (1969) Childhood in Trinidad &
Tobago, reminiscent of the novels of Michael Anthony.
The Heinemann Book of Caribbean Poetry. (Ed. S. Brown and I.
McDonald 1992). John Agard, Merle Collins, Derek Walcott, and others.
available: Auraria and through Prospector
McKay, Claude (Jamaica 1890 - 1948) Considered the first black
Caribbean novelist in English, McKay also wrote in Russian.
Songs of Jamaica. (1912) Poetry.
available: Auraria and through Prospector
Constab Ballads.
(1912) Poetry.
Spring in New Hampshire. Poetry.
Harlem Shadows. (1922) Poetry.
The Clinic. (1923) Poetry
Home to Harlem. (1928)
available: through Prospector
Banjo: A Story without a Plot. (1920)
available: through Prospector
Gingertown. (1932)
available: through Prospector
Banana Bottom. (1933)
available: Auraria and through Prospector
A Long Way From Home. (1937) Autobiography of world travels and
famous writers.
available: Auraria and through Prospector
Harlem: Negro Metropolis.
(1940)
available: Auraria and through Prospector (Auraria copy in
PASCAL remote storage)
Selected Poems of Claude McKay. (1953)
available: through Prospector
The Passion Of Claude McKay; Selected Poetry And Prose, 1912-1948.
(1973) Introduction and notes.
available: Auraria and through Prospector
[Works]. (1970) Selected
works on microform from the Schomburg Collection of the New York Public
Library.
available: Auraria
Trial by lynching : stories about Negro life in North America (Sudom
lincha.) (1977) Translated from Russian by Robert Winter.
The Negroes in America. (1979) Translated from Russian by Robert
J. Winter.
available: Auraria and through Prospector
Harlem Glory : A Fragment of Aframerican
Life. (1990 ?)
available: through Prospector
Complete Poems. (2004)
available: through Prospector. Also available to some institutions on-line. See Prospector.
McKenzie, Earl (Jamaica 1943 - )
A Boy Named Ossie. (1991) Stories about the joy and hardship of
rural Jamaica.
available: through Prospector
Two Roads to Mount Joyful. (1992)
available: through Prospector
Melville, Pauline (Guyana) More intense literature from
Guyana!
Shape-Shifter. (1990)
available: through Prospector
The Ventriloquist's Tale. (1997)
available: Auraria and through Prospector
The Migration of Ghosts. (1998)
available: through Prospector
Mittelhölzer, Edgar (Guyana 1901 - 1965)
Corentyne Thunder. (1941)
available: Auraria
A Morning at the Office. (1950) Titled A Morning in Trinidad.
for U.S. publication.
available: through Prospector
Shadows Move Among Them. (1951)
available: through Prospector
Children of Kaywana. (1952) Also titled Savage Destiny.
available: through Prospector
The Weather in Middenshot: A Novel. (1952)
available: through Prospector
The Life and Death of Sylvia. (1953) Also titled just Sylvia.
The Adding Machine: A Fable for Capitalists and Commercialists.
(1954) Is this the basis for the old B movie?
The Harrowing of Hubertus. (1954) Titled Hubertus for
U.S. market and later issued as Kaywana Stock.
available: through Prospector
My Bones and My Flute: A Ghost Story in the
Old-fashioned Manner. (1955)
available: through Prospector
Of Trees and the Sea. (1956)
A Tale of Three Places. (1957)
available: through Prospector
Kaywana Blood. (1958) U.S. title: The Old Blood.
available: through Prospector
With a Carib Eye. (1958)
The Weather Family. (1958)
The Mad MacMullochs. (1959)
A Tinkling in the Twilight. (1959)
available: through Prospector
Latticed Echoes: A Novel in
the Leitmotiv Manner. (1960)
available: through Prospector
Eltonsbrody. (1960)
Thunder Returning. (1961)
The Piling of Clouds. (1961)
The Wounded and the Worried. (1962)
available: through Prospector
A Swarthy Boy. (1963) Autobiography.
available: through Prospector
Uncle Paul. (1963)
The Aloneness of Mrs. Chatham. (1965)
The Jilkington Drama. (1965)
Mordecai, Pamela (Jamaica)
Jamaica Woman : An Anthology Of Poems. (1980) w/ Mervyn Morris.
available: Auraria and through Prospector
Journey Poem. (1989)
available: through Prospector
Her True-True Name: An Anthology of Women's Writing from the
Caribbean. (1989 Ed. P. Mordecai and B. Wilson) Thirty-one writers
from across the Caribbean experience (including the U.S. and Europe),
all rooted in Caribbean / African traditions but expressed in different
languages (English, French, Spanish). A eclectic mix of talent.
available: Auraria and through Prospector
Culture
and Customs of Jamaica. (2001) w/ Martin Mordecai.
available: through Prospector
Morris, John (Jamaica) The pen-name for John Hearn and Morris
Cargill collaborations.
Fever Grass. (1969)
The Candywine Development. (1970)
The Checkerboard Caper. (1975)
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Naipaul, Shiva (Trinidad & Tobago 1945 - )
Fireflies. (1970)
available: Auraria and through Prospector
The Chip-Chip Gatherers. (1973)
available: Auraria and through Prospector
North of South. (1978)
available: Auraria and through Prospector
Black and White (1980) Also
published under the title Journey
to nowhere : a New World tragedy
available: Auraria and through Prospector
Love and Death in a Hot Country. (1983)
available: through Prospector
Beyond the Dragon's Mouth: Stories and Pieces. (1984)
available: Auraria and through Prospector
An Unfinished Journey. (1986)
available: through Prospector
A Hot Country. (1995)
available: through Prospector
A Man of Mystery and other stories.
(1995)
available: through Prospector
Naipaul, V.S. [Vidiadhar Surajprasad] (Trinidad & Tobago
1932 - ) Prolific and world
renown Caribbean writer. Some of his works are:
The Mystic Masseur. (1957) An unsatisfied teacher becomes an
untalented masseur.
available: Auraria and through Prospector
The Suffrage of Elvira. (1958)
available: Auraria and through Prospector
Miguel Street. (1959) Early short stories. Also available in
Korean translation by Yi Sang-ok (Migel Sut‘urit‘u.)
available:Auraria and through Prospector
A House for Mr. Biswas. (1961)
available: Auraria and through Prospector
The Middle Passage: Impressions of
Five Societies - British, French and Dutch in the West Indies and South
America. (1962)
available: through Prospector
Mr. Stone and the Knights Companion. (1963) See The
Nightwatchman's Occurrence Book (2002).
An Area of Darkness. (1964)
available: Auraria and through Prospector
The Mimic Men. (1967)
available: through Prospector
A Flag on the Island. (1967) Also available in Italian
translation by Demetrio Vittorini (Una bandiera sull'isola).
available: Auraria and through Prospector
The Loss of El Dorado: A History. (1969)
available: Auraria and through Prospector. Also available
to some institutions
on-line: See Prospector.
In a Free State. (1971)
The
Overcrowded Barracoon, and other articles. (1972)
available: Auraria and through Prospector
Guerrillas. (1975)
available: Auraria and through Prospector
India: A Wounded Civilization.
(1977)
available: Auraria and through Prospector
A Bend in the River. (1979) Also available in Chinese
translation.
available: Auraria and through Prospector
The
Return of Eva Perón, with The killings in Trinidad.
(1980) Contains: Michael X and the Black Power
Killings in Trinidad, The Return of Eva Perón, A New King for
the Congo, and Conrad's Darkness.
available: through Prospector
Among the Believers : An Islamic Journey.
(1981)
available: Auraria and through Prospector
Three Novels. (1982)
Contains: The Mystic Masseur,
The Suffrage of Elvira, and Miguel Street.
available: through Prospector
Finding the Center: Two Narratives (1984)
available: Auraria and through Prospector
A Turn in the South (1985)
available: Auraria and through Prospector
The Enigma of Arrival: A Novel. (1987) A seemingly autobiographical account
of a young man from Trinidad discovering England in the mid 20th century, an England etched
by history and connection to the land yet coming apart as the forces of the modern world
unravel these connections.
available: through Prospector
India: A Million Mutinies Now.
(1991)
available: Auraria and through Prospector
A Way in the World. (1994)
available: through Prospector
Beyond Belief : Islamic Excursions Among
the Converted Peoples. (1998)
available: through Prospector
Letters between a Father and Son.
(1999) Three years of correspondence between V. S. Naipaul and his father,
Seepersad Naipaul, while the young Naipaul attended Oxford. Beginning in 1950,
this intense correspondence was cut short in 1953 by the untimely death of
Seepersad by heart attack at age 47.
available: Auraria and through Prospector. Also
available to some institutions
on-line: See Prospector.
Reading & Writing : A Personal Account.
(2000)
available: through Prospector
Half a Life. (2001) Also
available in Russian translation by V. Babkova (Poluzhizn).
available: Auraria and through Prospector
The
Nightwatchman's Occurrence Book : and other Comic Inventions.
(2002) Contains: The
Suffrage of Elvira, Mr Stone
and the Knights Companion, and A
Flag on the Island.
available: Auraria and through Prospector
The Writer and the World: Essays.
(2002)
available: Auraria and through Prospector. Also
available to some institutions
on-line: See Prospector.
Literary Occasions. (2003)
available: Auraria and through Prospector
Magic Seeds. (2004)
available: through Prospector
Vintage Naipaul. (2004)
available: through Prospector. Also
available to some institutions
on-line: See Prospector.
Nicole, Christopher (Guyana) Also published under several
pseudonyms.
Off-White. (1959)
Shadows in the Jungle. (1961)
Ratoon. (1962)
Dark Noon. (1963)
Amyot's Cay. (1964)
Blood Amyot. (1964)
The Amyot Crime. (1965)
The Self-Lovers. (1968)
The Thunder and the Shouting. (1969)
The Longest Pleasure. (1970)
Where the Caverns End.
(1970)
available: through Prospector
The Face of Evil. (1971)
The Infiltrator. (1971)
As Andrew York.
available: through Prospector
Lord of the Golden Fan. (1973)
Caribee. (1974)
The Devil's Own. (1975)
available: through Prospector
Black Dawn. (1977)
available: through Prospector
Heroes. (1977)
Sunset. (1978)
Black Majesty Book1: The
Seeds of Rebellion. (1984)
available: through Prospector
Black Majesty Book2: Wild
Harvest. (1985)
available: through Prospector
Old Glory. (1986)
available: through Prospector
Iron Ships, Iron Men. (1987)
available: through Prospector
Wind of Destiny. (1988)
available: through Prospector
Raging Sea, Searing Sky. (1991)
available: through Prospector
The
Titans. (1991)
available: through Prospector
Bloody Sunrise. (1993)
available: through Prospector
Bloody Sunset. (1994)
available: through Prospector
Guns in the Desert. (1998)
available: through Prospector
The Trade. (1993)
available: through Prospector
Prelude to War. (1999)
available: through Prospector
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Ogilvie, William G. (Jamaica)
Cactus Village. (1953)
The Ghost Bank. (1953)
Omowale Maxwell, Marina Ama (Trinidad & Tobago )
Chopstix in Mauby. (1996)
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Palmer, C. Everard (Jamaica)
A Broken Vessel. (1960)
The Cloud with the Silver Lining. (1966)
available: through Prospector
Big Doc Bitteroot. (1968)
available: through Prospector
The Sun Salutes You. (1970)
available: through Prospector
The Hummingbird People. (1971)
A Cow Called Boy. (1972)
available: through Prospector
Baba and Mr. Big. (1972)
available: through Prospector
The Wooing of Beppo Tate. (1972)
My Father Sun-Sun Johnson. (1974)
A Dog Called Houdini. (1978)
available: Listed in Prospector but w/o reference to a given
library
Houdini, Come Home. (1981)
available: through Prospector
Paravisini-Gebert, Lizabeth (Puerto Rico )
Editor (with Carmen C. Esteves) of Green Cane and Juicy Flotsam:
Short Stories by Caribbean Women.
available: Auraria and through Prospector
Patterson, H. Orlando (Jamaica)
The Children of Sisyphus. (1964)
available: through Prospector
An Absence of Ruins. (1967)
available: through Prospector
The Sociology of Slavery: An
Analysis of the Origins, Development, and Structure of Negro Slave
Society in Jamaica. (1967)
available: Auraria and through Prospector
Die The Long Day. (1971)
available: through Prospector
Ethnic Chauvinism: The Reactionary Impulse. (1977)
available: Auraria and through Prospector
Slavery and Social Death: A
Comparative Study. (1982)
available: Auraria and through Prospector
Freedom. Volume I: Freedom in the Making of Western Culture.
(1991)
available: Auraria and through Prospector
The Ordeal of Integration : Progress and
Resentment in America's "Racial" Crisis. (1997)
available: Auraria and through Prospector
Rituals of Blood : Consequences of Slavery
in Two American Centuries. (1998)
available: through Prospector
Phillips, Caryl (St. Kitts/England)
Strange Fruit. (1981) A play.
Where There is Darkness. (1982) A play. Albert faces his return
to the Caribbean after many years in Britain.
The Shelter (1984)
The Final Passage. (1985)
available: through Prospector
A State of Independence. (1986)
The European Tribe. (1987) Nonfiction about the hegemony of the
global European community.
available: through Prospector
Playing Away. (1987)
Higher Ground: A Novel in Three Parts. (1989)
available: through Prospector
Cambridge: A Novel. (1991)
available: through Prospector
Crossing The River: A Novel. (1993)
available: through Prospector
The Nature of Blood. (1997)
available: through Prospector
The Atlantic Sound (2000)
available: Auraria and through Prospector.
A New World Order: Essays.
(2002)
available: through Prospector
A Distant Shore. (2003)
available: through Prospector
Pollard, Velma (Jamaica 1937 - )
Crown Point and Other Poems. (1988)
available: through Prospector
Considering Woman. (1990) Short stories.
available: through Prospector
Karl and Other Stories. (1993)
Home Stretch. (1994)
Anansesem. (1994) Anthology.
Dread talk, the language of the Rastafari (2000)
available: through Prospector
The short story "Parable II" is anthologized in Green Cane and
Juicy Flotsam. Eds. Carmen C. Esteves & Lizabeth
Paravisini-Gebert (see listing under Esteves or Paravisini-Gebert)
Powell, Patricia (Jamaica 1966 - ) Teaches creative writing at
the
University of Massachusetts.
Diddle Diddle Red Hot Fiddle. (1990)
Me Dying Trial. (1993) Three generations of women struggle in
rural Jamaica and America.
available: through Prospector
A Small Gathering of Bones. (1994) Homosexual struggles in 1970s
Jamaica.
available: through Prospector
The Pagoda (1994)
available: Auraria and through Prospector
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Redcam, Tom (Jamaica) The pen-name of Thomas H. MacDermot.
Becka's Buckra Baby. (1903) One of the earliest pieces of
Caribbean prose.
Orange Valley and Other Poems. (1951)
Reid, V. S. (Victor Stafford) (Jamaica 1913 - )
New Day. (1949)
available: Auraria and through Prospector
The Leopard. (1958) A novel set during the Mau Mau revolt in
Kenya.
available: Auraria and through Prospector
Peter of Mount Ephraim. (1971)
The Jamaicans. (1976)
Nanny Town. (1983)
Rhys, Jean (Dominica 1894 - 1979) Driven to write and publish by
poverty and circumstance, Rhys was discovered by her friend and
sometime lover Ford Max Ford. She spent most of her life in Paris. Her
fiction is haunting and dark, filled with the brutality and despair of
colonialism. Some of her many works include:
The Left Bank and Other Stories. (1927)
available: Auraria and through Prospector
Quartet: A Novel. (1929)
Originally title Postures, published in 1928.
available: Auraria and through Prospector
After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie. (1931)
available: through Prospector
Voyage in the Dark. (1934)
available: through Prospector
Good Morning, Midnight. (1939)
available: Auraria and through Prospector
Wide Sargasso Sea. (1966) Her most famous novel and the basis
for a passable movie, this strange retelling of Jane Eyre is
the quintessential Rhys tale of the forgotten woman.
available: Auraria and through Prospector
Tigers are Better Looking. (1968)
available: through Prospector
My Day: Three Pieces.
(1975)
available: through Prospector
Sleep It Off, Lady. (1976)
available: Auraria and through Prospector
Smile, Please: An Unfinished Autobiography. (1979) Also
available in Spanish translation by Juan José Utrilla.
available: Auraria and through Prospector
Jean Rhys Letters 1931-1966. (1984)
available: Auraria and through Prospector
Jean
Rhys : The Complete Novels. (1985)
available: Auraria and through Prospector
Jean Rhys: Tales of the Wide Caribbean. (1986)
available:
Jean Rhys: The Collected Short Stories. (1987)
available: Auraria and through Prospector
The short story "The Day They Burned the Books" is anthologized in Green
Cane and Juicy Flotsam. Eds. Carmen C. Esteves & Lizabeth
Paravisini-Gebert (see listing under Esteves or Paravisini-Gebert)
Roberts, W[alter] Adolphe (Jamaica 1886-1962)
The Haunting Hand. (1927)
The Mind Reader, A Mystery. (1929)
available: through
Prospector
The Moralist. (1931)
Sir Henry Morgan Buccaneer and Governor (1933)
available: through
Prospector
The Top Floor Killer. (1935)
Semmes of the Alabama. (1938)
available: through
Prospector
The
Caribbean: The Story of Our Sea of Destiny. (1940)
available: Auraria and through Prospector
The Pomegranate. (1941)
The French in the West Indies.
(1942) Also Available in French translation by Antoine Coiffard (Les
Français aux Indes Occidentales).
available: through
Prospector
The U. S. Navy Fights. (1942)
available: through
Prospector
The Book of the Navy, Selected, with Notes.
(1944) By W. Adolphe Roberts and Lowell Brentano.
available: through Prospector
Royal Street: A Novel of New Orleans (1944)
Brave Mardi Gras: A New Orleans novel of the '60s.
(1946)
available: through
Prospector
Lake Pontchartrain . (1946)
available: through
Prospector
Creole Dusk: A New Orleans novel of the
'80s. (1948)
available: through
Prospector
Lands of the Inner Sea, the West Indies
and Bermuda. (1948)
available: through
Prospector
The Single Star. (1949)
Havana, the Potrait of a City.
(1953)
available: through
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Salkey, Andrew (Panama and Jamaica)
A Quality of Violence. (1959)
Escape to an Autumn Pavement. (1960)
available: through Prospector
West Indian Stories. (1960 Ed. A. Salkey)
available: through Prospector
Stories from the Caribbean. (1965 Ed. A. Salkey) Released later
as Island Voices: Stories from the West Indies.
available: through Prospector
The Late Emancipation of Jerry Stover. (1968 or 1969)
available: through Prospector
Jonah Simpson. (1969)
The Adventures of Catullus Kelly. (1969)
available: through Prospector
Havana Journal. (1971)
available: through Prospector
Breaklight: an Anthology of Caribbean
Poetry. (1971) Re-titled
in 1972 as Breaklight:
the Poetry of the Caribbean.
available: through Prospector
Caribbean Prose. (1973 Ed. A. Salkey)
Anancy's Score. (1973) Ah! Spider story!
Joey Tyson. (1974 or 1975)
available: through Prospector
Come Home, Malcolm Heartland. (1976)
Writing
in Cuba Since the Revolution : an Anthology of Poems, Short Stories,
and Essays. (1977 Ed. A. Salkey)
available: through Prospector
A Quality of Violence. (1978)
available: through Prospector
Hurricane. (1979)
available: through Prospector
In
the Hills Where Her Dreams Live : Poems for Chile, 1973-1978.
(1979)
available: through Prospector
Danny Jones. (1980)
The River that Disappeared. (1980)
Away: Poems (1980)
available:
In the border country and other stories (1998)
available:
Schwarz-Bart, Simone (Guadeloupe)
Un Plat de porc aux bananes vertes, roman.
(1967)
available: through Prospector
The Bridge Beyond: A Novel (Pluie et vent sur Télumée
miracle: roman.)
(1972) Reveals the tenacity and love for life of Gaudeloupean women
courageously struggling against extreme poverty. English translation by
Barbara Bray.
available: through Prospector
Between Two Worlds: A Novel (Ti Jean l'Horizon: roman.) (1979) A
magical,
mythical struggle against oppression. English translation by Barbara
Bray.
available: through Prospector
Ton beau capitaine : pièce en un
acte et quatre tableaux. (1987)
available: through Prospector
In Praise of Black Women (Hommage à la femme noire.)
(2001) English translation by Rose-Myriam Réjouis and Val
Vinokurov.
available: through Prospector (English only)
Selvon, Samuel (Trinidad & Tobago 1924 - 1994)
A Brighter Sun. (1952)
available: through Prospector
An Island is a World. (1955)
available: through Prospector
The Lonely Londoners. (1956) A novel about West Indians in
Britain.
available: through Prospector
Ways of Sunlight. (1957)
available: through Prospector
Turn Again Tiger. (1958)
available: through Prospector
I Hear Thunder. (1963)
available: through Prospector
The Housing Lark. (1965)
A Drink of Water. (1968)
The Plains of Caroni. (1970)
Those Who Eat the Cascadura. (1972)
available: through Prospector
Moses Ascending. (1975) Sequel to The Lonely Londoners.
available: through Prospector
Moses Migrating. (1983)
available: through Prospector
Eldorado West One. (1988) Plays.
Foreday Morning: Selected Prose (1946-1986). (1989)
available: through Prospector
Senior, Olive (Jamaica 1941 - )
The Message is Change. (1972) Non-fiction.
Pop Story Gi Mi: The Queen of Kingston and Other People. (1978)
A-Z of Jamaican Heritage. (1983)
available: through Prospector
Talking of Trees. (1985) Poetry.
Summer Lightning and other stories. (1986) Winner of the 1987
Commonwealth Writers' Prize.
available: through Prospecto
Arrival of the Snake-Woman and other stories. (1989)
available: through Prospector
Working Miracles: Women's Lives in the English-Speaking Caribbean.
(1991) Non-fiction.
available: Auraria and through Prospector
Gardening in the Tropics. (1994) Poetry.
available: through Prospecto
Discerner of Hearts. (1995) Short stories.
available: through Prospector
The short story "Bright Thursdays" is anthologized in Green Cane
and Juicy Flotsam. Eds. Carmen C. Esteves & Lizabeth
Paravisini-Gebert (see listing under Esteves or Paravisini-Gebert)
St. Omer, Garth (St. Lucia)
A Room on the Hill. (1968)
available: through Prospector
Shades of Grey. (1968) Two novellas: The Lights on the Hill
(later published alone) and Another Place Another Time.
available: through Prospector
Nor Any Country. (1969)
available: through Prospector
J--, Black Bam and the Masqueraders. (1972)
available: through Prospector
Stewart, John (Trinidad & Tobago 1933 - )
Last Cool Days. (1971)
available: through Prospector
Curving Road. (1975)
available: through Prospector
Symister, Leon Chaku (Antigua)
From The Depths of My Naked Soul: Chaku Writes. (1999) Poetry.
Under the Calabash Tree. (2000) Short stories.
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Taylor, Stanley A.G. (Jamaica 1894 - )
The Capture of Jamaica. (1951)
Buccaneer Bay. (1952)
Pages From Our Past. (1954)
The Western Design : An Account Of Cromwell's Expedition To The
Caribbean. (1965)
available: Auraria (Pascal remote storage)
Thelwell, (Ekwueme) Michael (Jamaica)
The Harder They Come. (1980)
available: Auraria and through Prospector
Duties, Pleasures, And Conflicts : Essays In Struggle (1987)
Introduction By James Bal.
available: through Prospector
Ready
for Revolution : The Life and Struggles of Stokely Carmichael (Kwame
Ture). (2003) By Stokely Carmichael and Ekwueme Michael Thelwell.
available: Auraria and through Prospector
Thomas, H. Nigel (St. Vincent 1947 - ) Professor of English at
Laval
University, Quebec.
From Folklore to Fiction : A Study of Folk
Heroes and Rituals in the Black American novel. (1988)
available: Auraria and through Prospector
Spirits in the Dark. (1994) A young man struggling with his lack
of knowledge about his African heritage, his need to compete in a
racist society, and his emerging homosexuality, attempts to heal his
soul through a religious ritual of sensory deprivation.
available: through Prospector
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Vega, Ana Lydia (Puerto Rico 1946 - )
Encancaranublado y otros cuentos de naufragio (1983)
Falsas crónicas del sur. (1991)
available: through Prospector
Pasión de historia y otras historias de pasión.
(1991)
available: through Prospector
Cuentos calientes. (1992)
available: through Prospector
El Tramo ancla : ensayos puertorriqueños de hoy. (1993
Ed. A. L. Vega)
available: through Prospector
Esperando a Loló y otros delirios generacionales. (1994)
available: through Prospector
True and False
Romances : Stories and a Novella. (1994) English translations by Andrew Hurley.
available: through Prospector
The short story "ADJ, Inc." in English translation is anthologized in Green
Cane and Juicy
Flotsam. Eds. Carmen C. Esteves & Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert
(see listing under Esteves or Paravisini-Gebert)
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Walcott, Derek (St. Lucia 1930 - ) The great Caribbean poet and
playwright, he won the 1992 Nobel Prize for literature. Some of his
works are:
25 Poems. (1948)
Epitaph for the Young: XII Cantos. (1949)
In a Green Night: Poems 1948-1960. (1962)
available: through Prospector
Selected Poems. (1962 or 1964) Some selections appeared earlier
in In
a Green Night.
available: through Prospector
The Castaway and Other Poems. (1965)
available: through Prospector
Malcauchon: Or the Six in the Rain. (1966)
The Gulf and Other Poems. (1969)
available: through Prospector
The Gulf. (1970) Includes all of The Gulf and Other Poems
and selections from The Castaway and Other Poems.
Dream On Monkey Mountain and Other Plays. (1970)
available: Auraria and through Prospector
Another Life. (1973)
available: Auraria and through Prospector
Sea Grapes. (1976)
available: Auraria and through Prospector
The Joker of Seville & O Babylon!: Two Plays. (1978)
available: Auraria and through Prospector
The Star-Apple Kingdom. (1979)
available: through Prospector
Remembrance and Pantomime. (1980)
available: Auraria and through Prospector
The Fortunate Traveller. (1981)
available: through Prospector
Ti-Jean and His Brother (1983)
available: through Prospector
Midsummer. (1984)
available: Auraria and through Prospector
Collected Poems 1948-1984. (1986)
available: Auraria and through Prospector
Three Plays. (1986) The Last Carnival; Beef, No Chicken; A
Branch of the Blue Nile.
available: through Prospector
The Arkansas Testament. (1987)
available: Auraria and through Prospector
Omeros. (1990)
available: Auraria and through Prospector
The
Poet in the Theatre. (1990)
available: through Prospector
The Antilles: Fragments of Epic Memory: the Nobel Lecture.
(1993)
available: through Prospector
The Odyssey: A Stage Version. (1993)
available: Auraria and through Prospector
Homage to Robert Frost. (1996) With Joseph Brodsky and Seamus
Heaney.
available: Auraria and through Prospector
The Bounty. (1997)
available: Auraria and through Prospector
What the Twilight Says: Essays. (1998)
available: Auraria and through Prospector
Tiepolo's Hound. (2000)
available: Auraria and through Prospector
The Haitian Trilogy. (2002)
available: through Prospector
Walker; and the Ghost Dance. (2002)
available: Auraria and through Prospector
Warner-Vieyra, Myriam (Guadeloupe & Senegal) Librarian at
the Univserity of Dakar.
As the sorcerer said (Le Quimboiseur l'avait dit.) (1982)
available: through Prospector (French only)
Juletane. (1987) Told in the form of a diary of a Caribbean
young woman's lonely life in France and subsequent marriage to an
African and move to Africa. Her expectations of Africa are pummeled by
the stark demands of traditional life.
available: Auraria and through Prospector
Femmes Echouées. (1988) Short stories.
available: through Prospector
The short story "Passport to Paradise" is anthologized in Green
Cane and Juicy Flotsam. Eds. Carmen C. Esteves & Lizabeth
Paravisini-Gebert (see listing under Esteves or Paravisini-Gebert)
Wickham, John (Barbados)
Discoveries - Short Stories. (1993)
The Oxford book of Caribbean short stories (1999 Ed. S. Brown
and J. Wickham)
available: through Prospector
Williams, Denis (Guyana 1923 - )
Other Leopards. (1963)
available: through Prospector
The third temptation: a novel. (1968)
available: through Prospector
Icon And Image, A Study Of Sacred And Secular Forms Of African
Classical Art. (1974) Fascinating study of the impact of iron and
iron images in sub-Saharan Africa.
available: Auraria and through Prospector
Prehistoric Guiana. (2003)
available: through Prospector
Williams, Noel D. (Guyana)
Ikael Torass. (1976)
The Crying of Rainbirds. (1992)
The Silence of Islands. (1994)
Wilson, Jeanne (Jamaica)
Weep in the Sun. (1976)
available: through Prospector
Troubled Heritage. (1977)
available: Auraria
Mulatto. (1978 or 1979)
The Golden Harlot. (1980)
Winkler, Anthony C. (Jamaica)
The Painted Canoe. (1986)
available: through Prospector
The Lunatic. (1987)
Wynter, Sylvia (Jamaica)
The Hills of Hebron: a Jamaican novel. (1962)
available: through Prospector
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Zobel, Joseph (Martinique)
Black Shack Alley (Rue Cases-Nègres.) (1950) Available in
French and English. Trans. by
Keith Q. Warner, 1996. Film in English known as Sugar Cane Alley Directed by Euzhan
Palcy (1983)
available: through Prospector
Le soleil partagé: nouvelles. (1964)
available: through Prospector
Quand la neige aura fondu. (1979)
available: through Prospector
Et si la mer n'était pas bleue... :
nouvelles. (1982)
available: through Prospector
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rev 04-20-2009
Dr. Jefferey Taylor
Metro State English