World Literatures in English: The Caribbean - Selected Works

Contents: Literary History & Criticism | Collections | Prose, Poetry & Drama: Representative Authors

Check out these seminal and recent works. Most of the materials listed may be used outside the library. Be sure to consult the Western Libraries Online Catalog for location and availability.

Literary History & Criticism

Adjarian, M. M. Allegories of desire : body, nation, and empire in modern Caribbean literature by women. Westport, CT : Praeger, 2004.
PR9205.05 .A35 2004

Alexander, Simone A. James. Mother Imagery in the Novels of Afro-Caribbean Women. Columbia: U of Missouri P, 2001.
PR 9205.4 .A48 2001

Barthold, Bonnie J. Black Time : Fiction of Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States. New Haven : Yale U P, 1981.
PN 841 .B3

Baugh, Edward, ed. Critics on Caribbean Literature : Readings in Literary Criticism. New York : St. Martin's, 1978.
PR 9210 .C7

Benítez-Rojo, Antonio. The Repeating Island : The Caribbean and the Postmodern Perspective. Trans. James Maraniss. Durham : Duke U P, 1992.
PN 849 .C3 B46 1992

Breiner, Laurence A. An Introduction to West Indian Poetry. Cambridge : Cambridge U P, 1998.
PR 9212 .B65 1998

Burnett, Paula. Derek Walcott : Politics and Poetics. Gainesville : U P of Florida, 2000.
PR 9272.9 .W3 Z55 2000

Burrows, Victoria. Whiteness and trauma : the mother-daughter knot in the fiction of Jean Rhys, Jamaica Kincaid, and Toni Morrison. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
PR9205.4 .B87 2004

Cáliz-Montoro, Carmen. Writing from the Borderlands : A Study of Chicano, Afro-Caribbean and Native Literatures in North America. Toronto : Tsar, 2000.
PS 153 .M56 C34 2000

Carretta, Vincent and Philip Gould, eds. Genius in Bondage : Literature of the Early Black Atlantic. Lexington : U P of Kentucky, 2001.
PR 9341 .G46 2001

Chadwick, Hilary. V. S. Naipaul. [videorecording] Princeton, N.J. : Films for the Humanities and Sciences, 2003.
Video Collection PR 9272.9 .N32 Z93 2003
        The award-winning novelist V. S. Naipaul explores the relationship between a writer and his work, offering insights into his life, his career and his subtly incisive novel/memoir The enigma of arrival. In particular, he contrasts the inspiration of living in the English countryside with the Caribbean, Indian, and African influences that dominate his earlier writings. Excerpts from Miguel Street, A house for Mr. Biswas, and other books -- read by actor Roshan Seth and by Naipaul himself -- round out this engaging interview.

Chancy, Myriam J. A. Searching for Safe Spaces: Afro-Caribbean Women Writers in Exile. Philadelphia: Temple U P, 1997.
PR 9205.05 .C48 1997

Colvile, Georgiana M.M., ed. Contemporary Women Writing in the Other Americas. Lewiston : E. Mellen, 1996.
PN 843 .W66 1996 v. 1-2

Conference on Spanish Caribbean Literature. Caribbean Literature in Comparison : Papers Presented at VIII Conference on Spanish Caribbean Literature, 9-11 April 1985. Ed. J.R. Pereira. Kingston, Jamaica : Institute of Caribbean Studies, U.W.I., Mona, 1990.
PQ 7361 .C68 1985

Cooper, Carolyn. Noises in the Blood: Orality, Gender, and the "Vulgar" Body of Jamaican Popular Culture. Durham, NC: Duke U P, 1995.
F 1874 .C66 1995

Coser, Stelamaris. Bridging the Americas : The Literature of Paule Marshall, Toni Morrison, and Gayl Jones. Philadelphia : Temple U P, 1995.
PS 153 .N5 C73 1995

Cudjoe, Selwyn R. Beyond boundaries : the intellectual tradition of Trinidad and Tobago in the nineteenth century. Wellesley, MA : Calaloux, 2003.
PR9272 .C83 2003

Cudjoe, Selwyn R., ed. Caribbean Women Writers: Essays from the First International Conference. Wellesley, MS : Calaloux, 1990.
PR 9205 .A515 C37 1990

Dabydeen, David and Nana Wilson-Tagoe. A Reader's Guide to West Indian and Black British Literature. London : Hansib, 1988.
PR 9210 .D34 1988

Dathorne, O. R. Dark Ancestor : The Literature of the Black Man in the Caribbean. Baton Rouge : Louisiana State U P, 1981.
PN 849 .C3 D37

Diedrich, Maria, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Carl Pedersen, eds. Black Imagination and the Middle Passage. New York: Oxford U P, 1999.
PS 153 .N5 B554 1999

Dissanayake, Wimal and Carmen Wickramagamage. Self and Colonial Desire : Travel Writings of V.S. Naipaul. New York : P. Lang, 1993.
PR 9272.9 .N32 Z66 1993

Edmundson, Belinda. Making Men: Gender, Literary Authority, and Women's Writing in Caribbean Narrative. Durham, NC: Duke U P, 1999.
PR 9205.05 .E36 1999

Ferguson, Moira. Colonialism and Gender Relations from Mary Wollstonecraft to Jamaica Kincaid : East Caribbean Connections. New York : Columbia U P, 1993.
PR 129 .C37 F47 1993

Fox, Robert Elliot. Masters of the Drum : Black Lit/oratures across the Continuum. Westport, CT : Greenwood, 1995.
PS 153 .N5 F695 1995

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., ed. Black Literature and Literary Theory. New York : Methuen, 1984.
PS 153 .N5 B555 1984

Gomez-Vega, Ibis. The Journey Home: Caribbean Women Writers Face the Wreckage of History. Ann Arbor: UMI Dissertation Services, 1997.
PS 153 .C27 G65 1995a

Griffiths, Gareth. A Double Exile : African and West Indian Writing Between Two Cultures. London : Boyars, 1978.
PR 9080 .G7

Gysin, Fritz and Christopher Mulvey, eds. Black Liberation in the Americas. Münster : Lit, 2001.
E 185 .B583 2001

Hamner, Robert D., ed. Critical Perspectives on Derek Walcott. Washington, D.C. : Three Continents, 1993.
PR 9272.9 .W3 Z57 1993

Harris, Wilson. The Womb of Space : The Cross-cultural Imagination. Westport, CT : Greenwood, 1983.
PN 771 .H23 1983

Havely, Cicely Palser. Wide Sargasso Sea : Real and Imaginary Islands. [videorecording] Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities and Sciences, 2003.
Video Collection PR 6035 .H96 Z937 2003
        Born and raised on the Caribbean island of Dominica, Jean Rhys used her native home as the setting for a novel derived from Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre. This program, filmed on location, explores the profound and complex effects of Dominica's landscape, history, and culture on the writing of Wide Sargasso Sea. Scholars, cultural historians, and Rhys' biographer, Carole Angier, discuss these influences on the book, as well as the notion of the historical novel as a hybrid literary creation.

Hawthorne, Evelyn J. The Writer in Transition : Roger Mais and the Decolonization of Caribbean Culture. New York : P. Lang, 1989.
PR 9265.9 .M3 Z69 1989

Henry, Paget and Paul Buhle, eds. C.L.R. James's Caribbean. Durham : Duke U P, 1992.
PR 9272.9 .J35 Z63 1992

Hogan, Patrick Colm. Colonialism and Cultural Identity : Crises of Tradition in the Anglophone Literatures of India, Africa, and the Caribbean. Albany : State U of New York P, 2000.
PR 9080 .H64 2000

Hoving, Isabel. In Praise of New Travelers: Reading Caribbean Migrant Women Writers. Stanford: Stanford U P, 2001.
PR 9205.4 .H68 2001

James, Louis, Dr. Caribbean Literature in English. London: Longman, 1999.
PR 9205 .J36 1999

James, Louis, ed. The Islands in Between : Essays on West Indian Literature. London : Oxford U.P., 1968.
PR 9210.5 .J3

John, Catherine A. Clear word and third sight : folk groundings and diasporic consciousness in African Caribbean writing. Durham : Duke U P, 2003.
PR9205.05 .J64 2003

Jones, Eldred Durosimi, ed. Africa, America & the Caribbean. London : Heinemann, 1978.
PL 8010 .A4 no. 9

King, Bruce, ed. West Indian Literature. Hamden, CT : Archon, 1979.
PR 9210 .W4 1979

Kirpal, Viney. The Third World Novel of Expatriation: A Study of Emigre Fiction by Indian, West African, and Caribbean Writers. New Dehli: Sterling, 1989.
PR9080 .K55 1989

Lane, Dorothy F. The Island as Site of Resistance: An Examination of Caribbean and New Zealand Texts. New York: P. Lang, 1995.
PR 9210.5 .L36 1995

Mackey, Nathaniel. Discrepant Engagement: Dissonance, Cross-culturality, and Experimental Writing. Cambridge: Cambridge U P, 1993.
PS 221 .M24 1993

Maurel, Sylvie. Jean Rhys. New York : St. Martin's, 1998.
PR 6035 .H96 Z794 1998

Moore, Gerald. The Chosen Tongue : English Writing in the Tropical World. New York : Harper & Row, 1970.
PR 9210.5 .M6

Mordecai, Pamela and Betty Wilson, eds. Her True-true Name. Oxford : Heinemann International, 1989.
PN 849 .C32 H47 1989

Nasta, Susheila, ed. Motherlands: Black Women's Writing from Africa, the Caribbean, and South Asia. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers U P, 1992.
PR 9340.5 .M67 1992

Ng˜ug˜i wa Thiong'o. Homecoming : Essays on African and Caribbean Literature, Culture and Politics. London : Heinemann, 1972.
PR 9340 .N48

O'Callaghan, Evelyn. Women writing the West Indies, 1804-1939 : "a hot place, belonging to us". London : Routledge, 2004.
PR9210.5 .O23 2004

Olaniyan, Tejumola. Scars of Conquest/Masks of Resistance : The Invention of Cultural Identities in African, African-American, and Caribbean Drama. New York : Oxford U P, 1995.
PS 338 .N4 O43 1995

Paquet, Sandra Pouchet. The Novels of George Lamming. London : Heinemann, 1982.
PR 6023 .A518 Z82 1982

Pollard, Charles W. New world modernisms : T.S. Eliot, Derek Walcott, and Kamau Brathwaite. Charlottesville : U of Virginia P, 2004.
PR9272.9.W3 Z82 2004

Renk, Kathleen J. Caribbean Shadows & Victorian Ghosts: Women's Writing and Decolonization. Charlottesville: University P of Virginia, 1999.
PR 9205.05 .R46 1999

Rody, Caroline. The Daughter's Return : African-American and Caribbean Women's Fictions of History. New York : Oxford U P, 2001.
PS 153 .N5 R59 2001

Savory, Elaine. Jean Rhys. Cambridge : Cambridge U P, 1998.
PR 6035 .H96 Z86 1998

Smith, Rowland, ed. Exile and Tradition : Studies in African and Caribbean Literature. New York : Africana, 1976.
PL 8010 .E9 1976

Sternlicht, Sanford. Jean Rhys. New York : Twayne, 1997.
PR 6035 .H96 Z88 1997

Strachan, Ian Gregory. Paradise and Plantation : Tourism and Culture in the Anglophone Caribbean. Charlottesville : U of Virginia P, 2002.
PR 9205 .S77 2002

Thomas, Sue. The Worlding of Jean Rhys. Westport, CT : Greenwood, 1999.
PR 6035 .H96 Z9 1999

Van Sertima, Ivan. Caribbean Writers: Critical Essays. London : New Beacon, 1968.
PR 9210 .V3

Wade, Michael. Peter Abrahams. London : Evans Bros, 1972.
PR 9368 .A3 Z95

Webb, Barbara J. Myth and History in Caribbean Fiction : Alejo Carpentier, Wilson Harris, and Edouard Glissant. Amherst : U of Massachusetts P, 1992.
PN 849 .C3 W4 1992