Overview of the General Works
This section contains lists of some of the secondary works on Anglophone Caribbean literature which are available at Senate House Library - these are just a selection to provide an idea of what material is available and some starting points
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The titles listed below are arranged in three thematic headings, which are well-represented in the collection:
- General Literature (works covering a range of authors, literary forms, and geographic locations)
- Poetry
- Women's Writing
General Literature
Birbalsingh, F. (1988) Passion and exile: essays on Caribbean literature (London: Hansib)
Bucknor, M. A. and Donnell, A. (eds.) (2011) The Routledge companion to Anglophone Caribbean literature (Abingdon: Routledge) - link to e-book; this title is also available in print format
Butcher, M. (ed.) (1989) Tibisiri: Caribbean writers and critics (Sydney: Dangaroo Press)
Campbell, K. O. S. (2014) The queer Caribbean speaks: interviews with writers, artists, and activists (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan)
Cummings, R. and Donnell, A. (eds.) Caribbean literature in transition, 1970-2020 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)
Dalleo, R. and Forbes, C. (eds.) (2020) Caribbean literature in transition, 1920-1970 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)
Donnell, A. (2006) Twentieth century Caribbean literature (Abingdon: Routledge)
Edmondson, B. (2009) Caribbean middlebrow: leisure, culture, and the middle class (Ithaca: Cornell University Press) - link to e-book; this title is also available in print format
Emery, M. L. (2007) Modernism, the visual, and Caribbean literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)
Gikandi, S. (1992) Writing in limbo: modernism and Caribbean literature (Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press) - link to e-book; this title is also available in print format
Glave, T. (ed.) (2008) Our Caribbean: a gathering of lesbian and gay writing from the Antilles (Durham, N.C. :Duke University Press)
King, B. (ed.) (1995) West Indian literature (London: Macmillan)
Ledent, B. (2004) Bridges across chasms: towards a transcultural future in Caribbean literature (Liège: Université de Liège Departement)
O'Callaghan, E. and Watson, T. (eds.) (2020) Caribbean literature in transition, 1800-1920 (New York: Cambridge University Press)
Ramchand, K. (1983) The West Indian novel and its background (London: Heinemann)
Walmsley, A. (1992) The Caribbean Artists Movement, 1966-1972: a literary & cultural history (London: New Beacon)
Poetry
Baugh, E. (1971 or 1972) West Indian poetry, 1900-1970: a study in cultural decolonisation (Kingston, Jamaica: Savacou)
Brathwaite, K. (1984) History of the voice: the development of nation language in Anglophone Caribbean poetry (London: New Beacon)
Breiner, L. A. (1998) An introduction to West Indian poetry (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)
Brown, L. W. (1984) West Indian poetry 2nd ed. (London: Heinemann)
Brown, S., Morris, M., Rohlehr, G. (eds.) (1989) Voiceprint: an anthology of oral and related poetry from the Caribbean (Harlow: Longman)
Brown, S. & McWatt, M. (2005) The Oxford book of Caribbean verse (Oxford: Oxford University Press)
Chamberlin, J. E. (1993) Come back to me my language: poetry and the West Indies (Urbana: University of Illinois Press)
Dawes, K. (ed. ) (1998) Wheel and come again: an anthology of reggae poetry (Leeds: Peepal Tree)
Markham, E. A. (ed.) (1989) Hinterland: Caribbean poetry from the West Indies and Britain (Newcastle: Bloodaxe)
Salkey, A. (1971) Breaklight: an anthology of Caribbean poetry (London: Hamilton)
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Women's Writing
Anim-Addo, J. (2002) Centre of remembrance: memory and Caribbean women's literature (London: Mango Publishing)
Chancy, M. J. A. (1997) Searching for safe spaces: Afro-Caribbean women writers in exile (Philadelphia: Temple University Press)
Cudjoe, S. R. (1990) Caribbean women writers: essays from the first international conference (Wellesley, Mass.: Calaloux)
Davies, C. B. and Fido, E. S. (eds.) (1990) Out of the Kumbla: Caribbean women and literature (Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press)
Edmondson, B. (1999) Making men: gender, literary authority, and women's writing in Caribbean narrative (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press)
Francis, D. (2010) Fictions of feminine citizenship: sexuality and the nation in contemporary Caribbean literature (New York: Palgrave Macmillan)
Gadsby, M. (2006) Sucking salt: Caribbean women writers, migration, and survival (Columbia: University of Missouri Press) - link to e-book; this title is also available in print format
Gregg, V. M. (2005) Caribbean women: an anthology of non-fiction writing (Notre Dame, Ind. :University of Notre Dame Press)
Mehta, B. (2004) Diasporic (dis)locations: Indo-Caribbean women writers negotiate the Kala Pini (Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press)
Newson, A. S. & Strong-Leek, L. (eds.) (1998) Winds of change: the transforming voices of Caribbean women writers and scholars (New York: Peter Lang)
O'Callaghan, E. (1993) Woman version: theoretical approaches to West Indian fiction by women ([Basingstoke]: Macmillan Caribbean)
O'Callaghan, E. (2004) Women writing the West Indies, 1804-1939: "a hot place, belonging to us" (New York: Routledge) - link to e-book; this title is also available in print format
Scott, H. (2006) Caribbean women writers and globalization: fictions of independence (Aldershot: Ashgate)