Afro-Caribbean Literature

This is a list of Afro-Caribbean Literature originally written in English, French, or Dutch that I have in my possession. It is not meant to be an exhaustive list of all Afro-Caribbean Writers. Countries represented in my collection: Antigua, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Cuba, Dominican Republic, French Guiana, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Saint Lucia, St. Kitts, Suriname, Trinidad & Tobago, Virgin Islands.

Michael Anthony (Trinidad)

The Year in San Fernando (Novel)

Profile available online

Growing Up in San Fernando: Change and Growth In Michael Anthony’s The Year in San Fernando by A. Luengo (essay available online)

Michael Anthony’s Website

Alvin Bennett (Jamaica)

God The Stonebreaker (Novel)

Edward Wilmot Blyden (Virgin Islands/Sierra Leone/Liberia)

The Elements of Permanent Influence (Sermon available online)

The African Personality or the Dilemma of the other and the self in the Philosophy of Edward W. Blyden 1832-1912 by V. Pawlikova-Vilhanova (academic essay available online)

Finding Truth in African Life and Customs: Edward Blyden’s Travels in Africa by Tracy Keith Flemming (essay available online)

Website of the Edward Blyden Virtual Museum

Carole Boyce Davies (Trinidad/ United States)

Left of Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones (Biography)

Video Interview (2009) available online

Profile available online

Dionne Brand (Trinidad/Canada)

In Another Place, Not Here (Novel)

At the Full and Change of the Moon (Novel)

Profile available online

“Me and the City That’s Never Happened Before”: Dionne Brand in Toronto by D.M.R. Bentley (essay available online)

Unforgetting Trauma: Dionne Brand’s Haunted Histories by Erica L. Johnson (essay available online)

Sexual Citizenship and Caribbean Canadian Fiction: Dionne Brand “In Another Place, Not Here” and Shani Mootoo’s “Cereus Blooms at Night” by Heather Smith (essay available online)

“Her Words Are Like Fire”: The Storytelling Magic of Dionne Brand by K. J. Renk (essay available online)

Maps of Memory and the Sea in Dionne Brand’s At the Full and Change of the Moon by Michael Laramee (essay available online)

Edward Brathwaite (Barbados)

The Arrivants (Poetry)

Edward Brathwaite’s The Arrivants and The Trope of Cultural Searching by Ayo Kehinde (essay available online)

Jean Buffong (Grenada/Britain)

Under the Silk Cotton Tree (Novel)

Martin Carter (Guyana)

Collected Poems (Poetry)

University of Hunger (Poem available online)

Poems by Martin Carter available online

Martin Carter: A Most Enduring Legacy by Niyi Osundare (article available online)

Profile available online

Aimé Césaire (Martinique)

Un saison au Congo (Play)

Une tempête (Play)

Aimé Césaire (1913–2008): The passion of the poet by Édouard Glissant (obituary available online)

The Deployment of Humor and Song in Asserting Black Diasporic Identity in Aimé Césaire’s A Tempest by Sam Vasquez (academic essay available online)

The Body, the Stage, and the Theory: Unpacking the Body in Aime Cesaire’s The Tragedy of King Christophe by E. Fick (academic essay available online)

Patrick Chamoiseau (Martinique)

Texaco (Novel)

Chronicle of the Seven Sorrows (Novel)

School Days (Novel)

Interview (2006) in French available online

Profile in French available online

Colin Channer (Jamaica/United States)

The Girl with the Golden Shoes (Novel)

Iron Balloons: Hit Fiction from Jamaica’s Calabash Writers’ Workshop (Short Story Collection, Editor)

Revolution (Short Story available online)

Fracturing Subjectivities: International Space and the Discourse of Individualism in Colin Channer’s Waiting in Vain and Jamaica Kincaid’s Mr. Potter by C. Forbes (academic essay available online)

Colin Channer’s Website

Austin Clarke (Barbados/Canada)

A Passage Back Home: A Personal Reminiscence of Samuel Selvon (Memoir)

Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack (Memoir) Excerpt available online

The Origin of Waves (Novel)

The Polished Hoe (Novel) Excerpt available online

Proud Empires (Novel)

Interview (2002) available online

The Theme of Exile in the Novels of Austin Clarke by K. G. Hunter (thesis available online)

Men don’t Have Nothing like Virginity: Migration, Refraction, and Black Masculine Performance in Austin Clarke’s The Question by Pedro M. Carmona Rodríguez (essay available online)

Austin Clarke and Padraic Fallon by D. Davie (article available online)

Caribbean Women Immigrants: A Search for Autonomy by N. Hines (essay available online)

Michelle Cliff  (Jamaica/United States)

No Telephone to Heaven (Short Stories)

Abeng (Novel)

Excerpt from “If I Could Write This in Fire” available online

Interview available online

Interview (2002) available online

Fading to white, fading away: biracial bodies in Michelle Cliff’s Abeng and Danzy Senna’s Caucasia by Sika Alaine Dagbovie (essay available online)

Maryse Condé (Guadeloupe)

Moi, Tituba sorcière (Novel in French)

Segu (Novel translated from French)

The Children of Segu (Novel translated from French)

Tree of Life (Novel translated from French)

The Last of the African Kings (Novel translated from French)

A Season in Rihata (Novel translated from French)

The Road to Adjame-Santey (Short Story available online)

Interview 2000 available online

Women, Violence and Witchcraft in Maryse Condé’s Célanire cou-coupé and Gisèle Pineau’s Chair Piment (essay available online)

From Africa to Barbados via Salem Maryse Condé’s Cultural Confrontations by Robert H. McCormick, Jr. (essay available online)

Journeys of “Détour” in Maryse Condé’s “A Season in Rihata” by Piper Kendrix Williams (essay available online)

The Creole and Female Identity in Maryse Condé’s Work (site available online)

Afua Cooper (Jamaica/Canada)

The Hanging of Angelique: The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montreal (History)

Poems available online

Interview (2010) with Allan Gregg available online

Afua Cooper’s Website

Léon-Gontran Damas (French Guiana)

Poems in French (Smithsonian Folkways Liner Notes available online)

Bouclez-la (Poem in French available online)

Hiccups (Poem translated into English available online)

Interview (1973) in French with V.Y. Mudimbe available online

Profile in French available online

Profile in English available online

Leon-Gontran Damas: Reclaiming Identity by Myra Sklarew (article available online)

Edwidge Danticat (Haiti/United States)

Brother, I’m Dying (Memoir) Reading Group Guide  available online

The Farming of Bones (Novel) Reading Group Guide available online

Breath, Eyes, Memory (Novel) Spark Notes available online

Behind the Mountains (Novel)

Ghosts (Short Story available online at The New Yorker)

We are Ugly, But We are Here (Essay available online)

A Taste of Coffee (Essay available online)

Interview (2001) available online

René Depestre (Haiti/France)

The Festival of the Greasy Pole (Novel, translated from the original French)

Adresse aux Haïtiens d’aujourd’hui (Article available online)

Interview (2006) available online in English

Déconstruire Édouard Glissant et René Depestre: Questions sur la «créolisation» by Tontongi (essay available online)

Zee Edgell (Belize)

Beka Lamb (Novel)

In Times Like These (Novel)

My Father and the Confederate Soldier (Short Story available online)

Interview (2003) by Bernadine Evaristo available online

Interview (2004) with Belize Magazine available online

Profile available online

Social Insecurity in Beka Lamb by Zee Edgell by E. Beck (academic essay available online)

Subalternity in Beka Lamb: Zee Edgell’s Kaleidoscopic Theory of National and Individual Wholeness (academic essay available online)

The Martyred Virgin: A Political Reading of Zee Edgell “Beka Lamb” by Roydon Salick (essay available online)

Women and Nationhood: Zee Edgell’s In Times Like These by Kristen Mahlis (essay available online)

Singing Her Own Song: Women and Selfhood in Zee Edgell’s Beka Lamb by Lorna Down (essay available online)

Zee Edgell’s Website

Frantz Fanon (Martinique)

Les damnés de la terre (Text) Excerpt (1) in English available online, Excerpt (2) in English available online, Excerpt (3) in English available online, Excerpt (4) in English available online, Preface by Jean-Paul Satre available online

Peau noire, masques blancs (Text)

Antillais et Africains (Essay in French available online)

The Fact of Blackness (Essay translated into English available online)

Algeria Unveiled (Essay translated into English available online)

Profile in English by Eileen Julien available online

Fanon and the Possiblity of Postcolonial Critical Imagination by Ato Sekyi-Otu (essay available online)

The Perplexed Persona of Frantz Fanon’s Peau noire, masques blancs by Jane Hiddleston (essay available online)

Frantz Fanon and the African revolution, revisited at a time of globalization by Helmi Sharawy (essay available online)

Through the Zone of Nonbeing:A Reading of Black Skin, White Masks in Celebration of Fanon’s Eightieth Birthday by Lewis Gordon (essay available online)

Frantz Fanon: Our Contemporary Zeitgeist by Ntongela Masilela (essay available online)

Frantz Fanon’s Contribution to Psychiatry: The Psychology of Racism and Colonialism by Hugh Butts (essay available online)

Frantz Fanon and C.L.R. James on Intellectualism and Enlightened Rationality by N. Maldonado Torres (essay available online)

Frantz Fanon, Steve Biko, ‘psychopolitics’ andcritical psychology by Derek Hook (essay available online)

Frantz Fanon and the “Lumpenproletariat” by Peter Worsley (essay available online)

Fanon, entre le reel et l’inconscient by Jacques Andre (essay in French available online)

Guerrillas and Gangs: Frantz Fanon and V. S. Naipaul by Michael Neill (essay available online)

Frantz Fanon: Critical Perspectives edited by A. Alessandrini (Text)

Postcolonial Web on Frantz Fanon

Website in French dedicated to the life and work on Frantz Fanon

Cecil Foster (Barbados/Canada)

Dry Bone Memories (Novel)

Island Wings (Memoir)

Beryl Gilroy (Guyana/Britain)

Boy-Sandwich (Novel)

Obituary in The Independent available online

Obituary in The Guardian available online

Edouard Glissant (Martinique)

La Lézarde (Novel)

Mahagony (Novel)

Aimé Césaire (1913–2008): The passion of the poet (Obituary available online)

Myths of a New World in Édouard Glissant’s novels La Lézarde and Le Quatrième siècle by Antoinette Tidjani Alou (essay available online)

Lorna Goodison (Jamaica/Canada/United States)

From Harvey River (Memoir)

Wilson Harris (Guyana/Britain)

Palace of the Peacock (Novel)

Interview (1986) available online

Interview (2003) by Fred D’Aguiar available online

Profile of Wilson Harris by Maya Jaggi in The Guardian available online

The Palace of the Peacock: Wilson Harris and the Curriculum in Troubled Times by C. McCarthy (academic essay available online)

Hosting History: Wilson Harris’s Sacramental Narratives by S. Durrant (essay available online)

Surveying the Psyche: A Jungian Reading of Wilson Harris’ The Guyana Quartet by K. Berthelsen   (article available online)

Fenwick’s Vision: Liberal Tyranny in “The Guyana Quartet” by Mac Fenwick (essay available online)

Donne Undone: The Journey of Psychic Re-integration in Wilson Harris’ Palace of the Peacock by Nouri Gana (essay available online)

Review of Harris’ novel “Jonestown” available online

Roy Heath (Guyana/Britain)

The Armstong Trilogy (Novels)

The Sources of Fiction (The Edgard Mittleholzer 1983 Lecture available online)

Criticism in Art: A View from the Diaspora (Essay available online)

Obituary in The Independent available online

Obituary in The Guardian available online

Merle Hodge (Trinidad)

Crick Crack, Monkey (Novel)

The Peoples of Trinidad and Tobago (Article available online)

The Language of Earl Lovelace (Essay available online)

Challenges of the Struggle for Sovereingty: Changing the World versus Writing Stories (Article available online)

Two Postcolonial Childhoods: Merle Hodge’s Crick Crack, Monkey and Simi Bedford’s Yoruba Girl Dancing by M. Japtok (essay available online)

The A, B, C’s of Alienation and Re-Integration: Merle Hodge’s Crick Crack, Monkey  by B. Clemente (essay available online)

Narration in the Post-Colonial Moment: Merle Hodge’s a Crick Crack Monkey” by Simon Gikandi (essay available online)

Nalo Hopkinson (Jamaica/Canada)

Midnight Robber (Novel) Excerpt available online

Salt Roads (Novel) Reading Guide available online

Brown Girls in the Ring (Novel)

Skin Folk (Short Stories)

Interview (2000) available online

Interview (2007) available online

Interview (2010) available online

Interview available online

Profile in The Caribbean Beat available online

Fragments and Crossroads in Nalo Hopkinson’s Brown Girl in the Ring by Elena Clemente Bustamante (essay available online)

Maternal discourses in Nalo Hopkinson’s Midnight Robber by Liza Anatol Giselle (essay available online)

Nalo Hopkinson’s Website

C. L. R. James (Trinidad)

The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution (History) Excerpt available online

You Don’t Play with Revolution: The Montreal Lectures of C. L. R. James (Essays)

World Revolution 1917-1936: The Rise and Fall of the Community International (Political Science available online)

Dialectical Materialism and the Fate of Humanity (Essay available online)

Imperialism in Africa (Essay available online)

West Indians of East Indian Descent (Article available online)

Walter Rodney and the Question of Power (Essay available online)

Excerpts from James’ Notes on Dialectic available online

Interview (1980) by Ken Remchand available online

Obituary in the New York Times available online

C. L. R. James: A Political Biography by Kent Worcester (Biography)

C. L. R. James: A Life by Farrukh Dhondy (Biography)

Rethinking C. L. R. James edited by Grant Farred (Academic Studies)

C. L. R. James: The Revolutionary as Artist by C. Hogsbjerg (essay available online)

C. L. R. James and the Black Jacobins by C. Hogsbjerg (essay available online)

A Controversial Caribbean: C. L. R. James by P. Dorn (article available online)

Antonio Gramsci and C. L. R. James: Some Parallels and Similarities by F. Rosengarten (article available online)

The Neglected C. L. R. James by Paul Buhle (article available online)

Audio Profile by Darcus Howe on BBC Radio 4 available online

Remembering C. L. R. James by N. Girvan (article available online)

C. L. R. James meets Tony Soparno by S. McLemee (article available online)

Consuming the Self: V.S. Naipaul, CLR James, and A Way in t he Worldby Rhonda Cobham-Sander (essay available online)

Obituary of Constance Webb, James’ Wife, written by Caryl Phillips available online

Website of the Marxist C. L. R. James Archive

Website of the C. L. R. James Institute

Marlon James (Jamaica/United States)

The Last Jamaican Lion (Short Story)

Interview (2009) available online

Interview (2009) in The Independent available online

Review of James’ novel The Book of Night Women available online

Marlon James’ Website

Linton Kwesi Johnson (Jamaica)

Mi Revalueshanary Fren (Poetry Collection)

If I Woz a Top Notch Poet (Poem on Video available online)

Interview (1998) available online

Interview in Trace Magazine available online

Interview (2002) available online

Interview (2008) available online

British Council Contemporary Writers Profile available online

Profile available online

“It Dread Inna Inglan”: Linton Kwesi Johnson, Dread, and Dub Identity by Peter Hitchcock (essay available online)

Linton Kwesi Johnson’s Dub Poetry and the Political Aesthetics of Carnival in Britain by A. Dawson (essay available online)

The Arts of Resistance in the Poetry of Linton Kwesi Johnson by J. L. Franca Junior (essay available online)

Linton Kwesi Johnson: Poetry Down a Reggae Wire by R. Stewart (essay available online)

Linton Kwesi Johnson Records Website

Jamaica Kincaid (Antigua)

A Small Place (Memoir)

The Autobiography of My Mother (Novel)

Mr. Potter (Novel)

My Brother (Memoir)

Interview in Salon available online

Interview (1991) available online

Interview (1997) available online

Profile available online

Profile from Voices from the Gaps available online

Constructing a Nation: Jamaica Kincaid’s A Small Place by Corinna McLeod (essay available online)

Fracturing Subjectivities: International Space and the Discourse of Individualism in Colin Channer’s Waiting in Vain and Jamaica Kincaid’s Mr. Potter by C. Forbes (academic essay available online)

Producing the Colonial Subject: Romantic Pedagogy and Mimicry in Jamaica Kincaid’s Writing by Jocelyn Stitt (essay available online)

Postcolonial Website on Jamaica Kincaid

Karen King-Aribisala (Guyana/Nigeria)

Kicking Tongues (Novel)

Interview  (2009) available online

Kicking Tongues de Karen King-Aribisala: « journeys into otherness » by Mélanie Joseph-Vilain (essay available online)

Franklin W. Knight (Jamaica/United States)

The Caribbean: The Genesis of a Fragmented Nationalism (History)

The Haitian Revolution (Essay available online)

Migration and Culture: A Case Study of Cuba, 1750-1900 (Essay available online)

The Crisis in the Contemporary Caribbean (Essay available online)

Christopher Columbus, Myth, Metaphor, and Metamorphosis in the Atlantic World 1492 to 1992 (Essay available online)

The New Scramble for Africa (Article available online)

Changes to Improve Jamaica (Article available online)

The Context of Atlantic Slavery and the Abolition of the British Slave Trade (Video Lecture available online)

Interview available online

Interview (2010) available online

Profile available online

Dany Laferrière (Haiti/Quebec)

Comment Faire L’Amour Avec Un Nègre Sans Se Fatiguer (Novel)

Pays Sans Chapeau (Novel)

Les Cris des Oiseaux Fous (Novel)

Ce livre est déjà écrit en anglais, seuls les mots sont en français (Article available online)

Blues pour mister Charlie (Article available online)

Une journée dans la vie d’un jeune félin (Text available online) Audio of text available online

Interview in French available online

Interview (1994) in French available online

Interview (1997) in French available online

Interview (1999) in French available online

 Video Interview (2009) in French available online

George Lamming (Barbados)

In the Castle of My Skin (Novel) Study Guide available online

The Emigrants (Novel)

Of Age and Innocence (Novel)

Language and the Politics of Ethnicity in the Caribbean (Essay available online)

Sea of Stories (Article available online)

Interview (1989) available online

Profile available online

CARICOM Profile available online

Seen from All Sides: George Lamming’s In the Castle of My Skin by Paul Dorn (article available online)

The Serial Art of George Lamming: Myth and Archive by Sandra Pouchet Paquet  (essay available online)

George Lamming and Paule Marshall: two contrastive views on the West Indian exilic experience by Kodjo Afagla (essay available online)

George Lamming’s “In the Castle of My Skin”: Finding Promise in the Land by N. Kortenaar (essay available online)

The Tyranny of History: George Lamming’s Natives of My Person and Water With Berries by Helen Tiffin (essay available online)

Andrea Levy (Jamaica/Britain)

Fruit of the Lemon (Novel) Excerpt available online, Reading Group Guide available online

Never Far From Nowhere (Novel) Excerpt available online

Small Island (Novel) Excerpt available online

This is my England (Article available online)

Interview (2004) available online

Interview (2004) with Bonnie Greer available online

Audio Interview Podcast (2010) available online

Andrea Levy’s Website

Earl Lovelace (Trinidad)

The Dragon Can’t Dance (Novel) Excerpt available online

Salt (Novel)

Calypso and the Bacchanal Connection (Essay available online)

Interview (2002) available online

Interview (2003) available online

Postcolonial Website on Earl Lovelace

Paule Marshall (United States/ Barbados)

The Chosen Place, the Timeless People (Novel)

Brown Girl, Brownstones (Novel)

Audio Interview (1991) available online

Video Interview available online

Profile available online

Paule Marshall and the Search for the African Diaspora by Simon Gikandi (article available online)

Paule Marshall’s The Chosen Place, The Timeless People: Untenable Sisterhoods by L. Paravisini-Gebert (essay available online)

Using the Past in the Present Struggle: Paule Marshall’s The Chosen Place, The Timeless People by V. Earley (thesis available online)

Sugarcane as History in Paule Marshall’s “To Da-Duh, in Memoriam” by Martin Japtok (essay available online)

Paule Marshall’s ‘Brown Girl, Brownstones’: reconciling ethnicity and individualism by Martin Japtok (essay available online)

“You Ain No Real-Real Bajan Man”: Patriarchal Performance and Feminist Discourse in Paule Marshall’s Brown Girl, Brownstones by Lewis MacLeod (essay available online)

Use of Light in Brown Girl, Brownstones by Julie Lorenzen (article available online)

Cynthia McLeod (Suriname)

The Free Negress Elisabeth (Novel translated from Dutch) Excerpt available online

Celebrating the Extraordinary Life of Elisabeth Samson (Lecture available online)

Interview (2006) available online

Interview (2009) available online

Interview (2010) available online

Profile available online

Profile (2010) available online

Profile of her father, Johan Ferrier, available online

Tessa McWatt (Guyana/Canada/Britain)

This Body (Novel)

Video Interview available online

Carlos Moore (Cuba/United States)

Pichon: Race and Revolution in Castro’s Cuba (Memoir)

Putting Context to Cuba’s Racial Divide (Article available online)

Anti-Cubans Push Back (Article available online)

Is Black America’s Honeymoon with the Castros over? (Article available online)

Interview about Pichon available online

Interview (2003) available online

Interview (2009) with Tavis Smiley available online

Interview (2010) available online

Some Quick Comments on Carlos Moore’s PICHÓN by Walterio Lord Garnés and David González López (article available online)

An Open Letter to Carlos Moore by Pedro Perez Sarduy (letter available online)

Critical Perspectives on Carlos Moore available online

Carlos Moore’s Website

George Padmore (Trinidad/Britain)

The Life and Struggles of Negro Toilers (History available online)

Why Moors Help Franco (Article available online)

Remembering George Padmore by Manning Marable (article available online)

George Padmore: the forgotten man of history by L. Lewis (article available online)

Kwame Nkrumah, George Padmore, and W.E.B. Dubois by K. Afari-Gyan (academic essay available online)

Website containing links to Padmore’s Writings

Website of the George Padmore Institute

Orlando Patterson (Jamaica/ United States)

The Children of Sisyphus (Novel)

Continuity, Identity and Causal Lines in Socio-cultural Processes (Essay available online)

A Poverty of the Mind (Article available online)

Jamaica’s Bloody Democracy (Article available online)

A Job Too Big For One Man (Article available online)

The Other Losing War (Article available online)

The New Black Nativism (Article available online)

Interview (2008) with Bill Moyers available online

Marlene NourbeSe Philip (Tobago/Canada)

Harriet’s Daughter (Novel)

Interview available online

Marlene NourbeSe Philip’s Website

Caryl Phillips (St. Kitts/Britain)

Foreigners (Novel)

Was Joseph Conrad really a racist? (Article available online)

Interview (1992) by Graham Swift available online

Interview (2002) with Penelope Lively available online

Interview (2007) available online

Interview (2007) by Afroeuropa available online

Interview (2009) available online

Profile in Aesthetic Magazine available online

Caryl Phillips’s Cambridge: Ironical (Dis)empowerment? by Sylvie Chavanelle (article available online)

Travel Writing and Postcoloniality: Caryl Phillips’ The Atlantic Sound by M. Ropero (academic essay available online)

Travel Discourse in Caryl Phillips’ The Final Passage and A State of Independence by H. Goddard (article available online)

Caryl Phillips’ Website

Sidney Poitier (Bahamas/United States)

The Measure of a Man (Memoir)

Life Beyond Measure (Memoir)

Excerpts from Poitier’s Memoirs available online

Interview (2000) with Oprah available online

Interview (2007) available online

Interview (2008) with Tavis Smiley available online

Interview (2009) available online

BBC On This Day: 1964 Sidney Poitier Wins Oscar

PBS Website: American Masters Sidney Poitier

US Embassy Cables: Sidney Poitier is Star Attraction for Bahamas Trip to Japan (leaked cable available online in The Guardian)

Althea Prince (Antigua/Canada)

Loving This Man (Novel)

Being Black (Essays)

Review of The Politics of Black Hair available online

Althea Prince’s Website

Jean Prince-Mars (Haiti)

Ainsi parla l’oncle: essais d’ethnographie (Ethnography available in French online)

Maria Roberts-Squires (Grenada)

October All Over (Novel)

Walter Rodney (Guyana)

Groundings with My Brothers (Speeches)

African History in the Service of Black Liberation (Speech available online)

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (History available online)

Street Speech available online

George Jackson: Black Revolutionary (Article available online)

Excerpt from Walter Rodney Speaks

Seeing Darkly: Guyana, Black Power, and Walter Rodney’s Expulsion from Jamaica by M. West (academic essay available online)

Walter Rodney and Pan-Africanism Today by H. Campbell (academic essay available online)

Keep Walter Rodney Alive by T. Abdul Raheem (article available online)

Website  of The Walter Rodney Files

Website of The Walter Rodney Foundation

Jacques Roumain (Haiti)

Masters of the Dew (Novel translated from French)

Profile in French available online

The Mythological Themes In The Fictional Works Of Jacques Roumain by Adèle Bloch (essay available online)

Nelly Rosario (Dominican Republic/United States)

Song of the Water Spirits (Novel)

Sliding Up a Rabbit Hole Into Wonderland (Article available online)

Loa Down (Book Review available online)

Profile available online

Namba Roy (Jamaica)

Black Albino (Novel)

Mary Seacole (Jamaica)

Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands (Memoir available online)

Wonderful Adventures: Transcending Liminality and Redefining Identity in Mary Jane Grant Seacole’s Autobiography by Rezzan Kocaöner Silkü (essay available online)

Website dedicated to the life and work of Mary Seacole

Olive Senior (Jamaica/Canada)

Summer Lightning (Short Stories)

Discerner of Hearts (Short Stories)

The Pain Tree (Short Story available online)

Persephone (Poem available online)

Interview (2003) available online

Interview available online

Profile available online

Whiteness and the Magic of Money in Olive Senior’s Ascot by M. Japtok (essay available online)

Registering Woman: Senior’s Zig-Zag Discourse and Code-Switching in Jamaican Narrative by Barbara Lalla (essay available online)

Makeda Silvera (Jamaica/Canada)

Her Head a Village and other stories (Short Stories)

The Heart Does Not Bend (Novel) Review available online

Silenced: Talks With Working Class Caribbean Women about their lives and struggles as Domestic Workers in Canada (Women’s Studies)

Profile available online

Profile of Sister Vision Press, co-founded by Silvera

Ian G. Strachan (Bahamas)

God’s Angry Babies (Novel)

Interview (2006) available online

Interview (2007) available online

Interview (2010) available online

Video Interview (2010) available online

Ian Strachan’s Blog

Trefossa (Henri Frans de Ziel) (Suriname)

A True Poem (Poem available online)

Earthmother (Poem available online)

God Be With Our Suriname (Suriname National Anthem available online)

Collected Poems (available online in Dutch)

About the documentary Trefossa: Mi An No Mi by Ida Does

Summary A History of Surinamese Literature by Michiel van Kempen (article available online)

Derek Walcott (Saint Lucia)

Dream on Monkey Mountain and other plays (Plays)

Omeros (Epic Poem)

Nobel Prize for Literature 1992 Lecture available online

Nobel Prize for Literature 1992 Award Ceremony Speech available online

Poems (Assorted Poems available online

Video Lecture (2007) available online

Video Reading available online

Video Interview (2005) available online

Interview (1986) in The Paris Review available online

Interview (1990) available online

Audio Interview (1990) with BBC Radio available online

Nobel Prize for Literature 1992 Profile available online

Profile available online

Profile in Slate Magazine available online

Profile by George Elliot Clarke available online

The Partheon in Tobago: Encountering Derek Walcott after the 1970s by M. McMorris (essay available online)

Notions of Myth, Gestures of Masquerade: Theatre of Memory in Derek Walcott’s Omeros and Toni Morrison’s Beloved by Nicola Hunte (essay available online)

Derek Walcott’s poetry: Language as betrayal by William Logan (article available online)

Postcolonial Website on Derek Walcott

Website dedicated to the life and work of Derek Walcott

Joseph Zobel (Martinique)

Black Shack Alley (Novel translated from French)

Obituary in the Guardian available online

Joseph Zobel’s Autobiographical Novel Black Shack Alley: Education as a Catalyst against the Politics of Colonial Oppression by Robert W. Bernard (essay available online)