Haiti, Cuba and the Caribbean : Caribbean Literature

Walcott is a poet and playwright from St. Lucia. He received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature. Other notable works include his play, "Dream on Monkey Mountain," and his book of poetry, "White Egrets."

Nobel prize.

Naipaul is a novelist from Trinidad who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2001. Other notable works include: "The Enigma of Arrival," and "A Bend in the River."

Nobel prize.

The Caribbean Review of Books (CRB) is a quarterly magazine covering Caribbean literature and arts. It focuses on reviews of new and recent books of Caribbean fiction, poems, biography, arts, culture, and current affairs, but the CRB also publishes new writing, interviews, and essays on literature and culture.

Covers literature, in all genres, by, about, and concerning the writers and critics of the Caribbean.

Subject(s): Caribbean literature (English) --History and criticism --Periodicals.

2006 International Winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize (Canada). Brathwaite is from Barbados.

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Author Brathwaite from Barbados writes about Caribbean poetry.

A profile of Efraín Ortiz, a Puerto Rican ’declamador’ (reciter) of verso negro, an African-influenced style of poetry that arose in Puerto Rico, Cuba and the Dominican Republic from the 1920’s through the 1940’s and remains popular today. Some historical background on the verso negro movement and its major poets, such as Fortunato Vizcarrondo, Nicolás Guillén, and Luis Palés Matos, is provided. Ortiz is seen in performance in Puerto Rico and at a cultural festival in Lawrence, Mass.

VHS. Poets James Berry and David Dabydeen discuss Caribbean poetry and Jackie Kay reads excerpts from her works. Also heard are poems of Derek Wolcott, Louise Bennett, Edward Braithwaite, Michael Smith, Linton Kwesi Johnson and others.

Listing of titles held at KU Libraries written by Caribbean authors. Search the Online Catalog, by KEYWORD: (in quotation marks) "Caribbean Writers Series". Or search by TITLE: Caribbean Writers Series.

Historian from Trinidad. Later became Prime Minister.

Subject(s): West Indies --History.

Short story collection by Antiguan-American Kincaid.

Non-fiction by Antiguan-American Kincaid.

Fiction by Antiguan-American Kincaid.

Historian from Trinidad.
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Subject(s):
Cricket --West Indies.
Sports and state --West Indies.
West Indies --Social conditions.

Historian from Trinidad.
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Historian from Trinidad. Later became Prime Minister.

Subject(s): West Indies --History --Sources.
Table of Contents v. 1. 1492-1655: from the Spanish discovery to the British conquest of Jamaica.

C.L.R. James from Trinidad wrote this history of the Haitian Revolution from 1791-1804 (in the context of the French Revolution).

"Containing a wealth of new scholarship and rare primary documents, The Black Jacobins Reader provides a comprehensive analysis of C. L. R. James's classic history of the Haitian Revolution. In addition to considering the book's literary qualities and its role in James's emergence as a writer and thinker, the contributors discuss its production, context, and enduring importance in relation to debates about decolonization, globalization, postcolonialism, and the emergence of neocolonial modernity. The Reader also includes the reflections of activists and novelists on the book's influence and a transcript of James's 1970 interview with Studs Terkel."

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Translation of the Spanish, "El Reino de este Mundo" originally published in 1949. Historical fiction before, during and after the Haitian Revolution by Cuban author Alejo Carpentier.

Essays by Barbados' most famous novelist, George Lamming, including a chapter about CLR James’ "The Black Jacobins."

Includes chapters on Haiti, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic. Written by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. from the United States.

One of Mintz’s main contributions to Caribbean anthropology has been his analysis of the origins and establishment of the peasantry.

Subject(s):
Sugar workers --Puerto Rico.
Puerto Rico --Rural conditions.

Subject(s):
Exports --Caribbean Area.
Consumption (Economics) --Moral and ethical aspects.
Exploitation.
Caribbean Area --Commerce --Moral and ethical aspects.

Subject(s):
Haiti --History --1804-1844.
Haiti --History --1844-1915.
Jamaica --History --19th century.
Jamaica --History --Insurrection, 1865.
Haiti --Foreign relations --Jamaica.
Jamaica --Foreign relations --Haiti.

Subject(s):
Peasants --Caribbean Area.
Plantations --Caribbean Area.
Land tenure --Caribbean Area.

Subject(s):
Ethnology --Jamaica, Haiti, Puerto Rico.
Culture diffusion --Jamaica, Haiti, Puerto Rico.
Colonization. --Jamaica, Haiti, Puerto Rico.

Table of Contents includes:
Beyond sugar revolutions : rethinking the Spanish Caribbean in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Juan Giusti-Cordero

Microhistory set in motion : a nineteenth-century Atlantic Creole itinerary / Rebecca J. Scott

Jealous women in the cane / Deborah Gewertz and Frederick Errington

Toward an anthropology of excess : wanting more (while getting less) on a Caribbean global periphery / Samuel Martínez.