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Caribbean Authors
Michelle Cliff
A native Jamaican who grew up in the U.S., Cliff's novels are "authoenthographic," concerned with rewriting her ethnicity in a new context. A page at Emory for the Abeng author.
Frantz Fanon
A concise biographical and scholarly introduction to Fanon, the influential author of Black Skin, White Mask and The Wretched of the Earth from the Emory Postcolonial Pages.
Merle Hodge
A page on the Trinidadian author of Crick Crack, Monkey at Emory.
NYT review of For the Life of Laetita by Merle Hodge
Elizabeth Cohen reviews Hodge's coming-of-age-in-Trinidad novel for The New York Times.
Jamaica Kincaid: Through West Indian Eyes
An essay-review of Kincaid's life and work, by Leslie Garis of The New York Times.
Jamaica Kincaid
The Salon interview with Kincaid, a native Antiguan, former frequent New Yorker contributor and novelist, author of Lucy.
Roi Kwabena
Information on the Trinidadian poet and activist, author of Waiting for the Hangman, including several of his poems.
C.L.R. James
An article on the intellectual legacy of James, the author of The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution by P.J. Dorn.
George Lamming
Barbados native Lamming's novels, in particular his first and most famous work, In the Castle of My Skin are concerned with the way that language and location shape identity. A Lamming page at Emory University.
George Lamming
A study guide to In the Castle of My Skin written by Paul Brians at Washington State University.
George Lamming
"Seeing from All Sides," an essay on In the Castle of My Skin by P.J. Dorn.
Audre Lorde
Though born in New York, much of Lorde's poetry is influenced by her West Indian background, and she lived on St. Croix at the time of her death. She is well know as a lesbian poet, and as a chronicler of breast cancer. A page at Emory.
Voices From the Gaps: Audre Lorde
A Lorde page at VFG including a short bio and a selected bibliography.
V.S. Naipaul
A 1974 interview with the Caribbean author of Miguel Street.
V. S. Naipaul in Search of Himself: A Conversation
A New York Times profile of the Trinidadian author, by Mel Gussow.
NYT review of A Way in the World by V. S. Naipaul
Michiko Kakutani's review of Naipaul's latest novel.
Derek Walcott
Derek Walcott: Winner of the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature
A Walcott page at the Nobel Internet Archive, featuring a bibliography and links to related sites and reviews.
Derek Walcott on the Brown Postcolonial Web
A page under construction dedicated to the Nobel Prize winner.
Derek Walcott at RedFrog - Poems from the Planet Earth
7 different poems by Walcott (in English) and several in Spanish and Polish.
Derek Walcott: "Tommorow, Tommorow"
A short poem on locations and horizons.
"The Sigh of History" by Derek Walcott
An essay by the poet on the village of Felicity, Trinidad, from the New York Times.
NYT: Derek Walcott Wins Nobel Prize
The Times article includes biographical information on the poet.
Derek Walcott and Joseph Brodsky on Poetry
"The Power of Poetry:" the two Nobel Prize winners Joseph Brodsky (1987) and Derek Walcott (1992) met at the Gothenburg Book Fair on 9 September 1993 to discuss (their) poetry and the ways it is modulated by aspects of language, place, and history.
Derek Walcott: Constructing Modern Idiom on a Base of Tradition
A New York Times article by James Atlas on Walcott's poetic technique.
NYT review of Collected Poems 1948-1984 by Derek Walcott
Michiko Kakutani's review of Walcott's Collected Poems.
NYT review of Collected Poems 1948-1984 by Derek Walcott
American poet James Dickey's review of Walcott's Collected Poems.
NYT review of Omeros by Derek Walcott
Mary Lefkowitz reviews Walcott's epic, considered by many to be most innovative 20th century treatment of the form.
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