West Indian literature West Indian literature The Caribbean Review of Books is a quarterly magazine published in Port of Spain, Trinidad, reviewing books of Caribbean interest--by Caribbean authors or about the Caribbean--and printing original fiction, poetry, and other literary material. It is the second periodical to use this name. ...more on Wikipedia about "Caribbean Review of Books"
Kyk-Over-Al is a literary magazine published in Guyana, the only survivor of the three pioneering literary magazines founded in the 1940s that helped define postwar West Indian literature (the other two were Bim, published in Barbados, and Focus, published in Jamaica). Kyk-Over-Al is indelibly associated with the Guyanese poet and editor A.J. Seymour, the magazine's longtime editor. After Seymour's death in 1989 the editorship was assumed by poet and novelist Ian McDonald. The title is often informally abbreviated to Kyk. ...more on Wikipedia about "Kyk-Over-Al (magazine)"
Miguel Street is a semi-autobiographical collection of short stories by V. S. Naipaul set in wartime Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. The book presents a number of remarkable, idiosyncratic characters, including Mr. Popo, the carpenter who never finishes making anything and is always working on the thing without a name; the poet B. Wordsworth who is working on the greatest poem ever written but has never written pas the first line; and Man-Man, the mad man who becomes a prophet. The book, both intensely funny and bitterly painful, is the story of great ambitions thatnever got anywhere. Only the narrator manages to escape from Miguel Street and leave Trinidad, with the hope of making something of himself. ...more on Wikipedia about "Miguel Street"
Minty Alley is a groundbreaking novel written by Trinidadian writer C. L. R. James in the late 1920s, and published by Frederick Warburg Secker & Warburg in 1936, as West Indian literature was starting to flourish. It was the first novel by a black West Indian to be published in England. James arrived in the United Kingdom in 1932, intent on a career as a writer, and found employment writing about cricket for the Manchester Guardian. He soon became swept up in politics, writing books about the Bolshevik and Haitian revolutions, leaving his literary ambitions behind. He died in London in 1989. ...more on Wikipedia about "Minty Alley"
The Dominica Story: A History of the Island is a history book from 1975, written by famed Dominican historian Lennox Honychurch. Originally presented as a miniseries for Radio Dominica (now DBS Radio) in 1974, the inaugural edition covered every aspect of local history from prehistory up to the then-present (the island's 1967 Associated Statehood). ...more on Wikipedia about "The Dominica Story"
West Indian literature is the term generally accepted for the literature of those territories in the English-speaking Caribbean formerly known as the British West Indies. Most of these territories have become independent nations since the 1960s, though some retain colonial ties to the United Kingdom. They all share, apart from the English language, a number of political, cultural, and social ties which make it useful to consider their literary output in a single category. The more wide-ranging term "Caribbean literature" generally refers to the literature of all Caribbean territories regardless of language--whether written in English, Spanish, French, or Dutch, or one of numerous creoles. ...more on Wikipedia about "West Indian literature"
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