Caribbean Thought and Letters: Key Thinkers and Writers
The works of influential writers and thinkers from literature, philosophy, politics and economics feature prominently within the collections. Amongst them are Nobel Laureates Sir Arthur Lewis (economics), V S Naipaul (literature), Gabriel Garcia Marquez (literature) and Derek Walcott (literature), as well as many other prominent figures from the Anglophone, Francophone/Kreyol and Hispanophone Caribbean. Below is a key series in Caribbean Literature, followed by several prominent writers and thinkers from the region.
Key catalogue subject themes:
Caribbean Area In Literature ; Caribbean Area Fiction ; Caribbean Area Intellectual Life ; Caribbean Area Intellectuals ; Caribbean Literature History And Criticism ; Caribbean Area Women And Literature History 20th Century
Heinemann Caribbean Writers series
- Novels and short stories from numerous established and emerging writers from throughout the Caribbean – for more info click here [ 21 titles ]: http://bit.ly/2txIXbg
Aime Cesaire
- Works by Aime Cesaire (Martinique): key thinker in the negritude movement; plays, poetry and other works. [36 items] http://bit.ly/2uvgBTi
Marcus Garvey
- Speeches and Writings by Marcus Garvey (Jamaica): Pan Africanist leader [13 items] http://bit.ly/2tiZ41p
- Davis, Lenwood G and Janet L. Sims (1980) Marcus Garvey: an annotated bibliography http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1050593~S24
- A. Silvera (1975) Marcus Mosiah Garvey, 1887-1940 : a bibliography http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2386834~S24
- Patterson, Iris L. Marcus Garvey as I knew him. Kingston : Rastafari Movement Association, 1977. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2386237~S24
Maryse Condé
- Works by Conde (Guadeloupe): historical fiction writer and scholar of Francophone literature. [24 items] http://bit.ly/2tiMa3g
Harris Wilson
- Works by Wilson Harris (Guyana): novelist, essayist and poet. [38 items] http://bit.ly/2vu0KBx
- Works of criticism on Harris [6 items] http://bit.ly/2uB40Pq
- Theodore Wilson Harris : a select list of works and criticism [a bibliography]. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2635477~S24
Jean Price Mars
- Works by Jean Price-Mars (Haiti): teacher, diplomat, writer, ethnographer and negritude thinker. [ 7 items ] http://bit.ly/2vacjic
- Jean Price-Mars, the Haitian elite and the American occupation, 1915-1935 / Magdaline W. Shannon. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1050280~S1
- Jean Price-Mars and Haiti / Jacques Carmeleau Antoine ; preface by Jean F. Brierre. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1367960~S1
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Writings by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Columbia): novelist and short-story writer; Nobel laureate. [ 116 items ] http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/search~S1?/aGarcia+marquez/agarcia+marquez/1%2C4%2C119%2CB/exact&FF=agarcia+marquez+gabriel+++++1928&1%2C116%2C
Edwidge Danticat
- Writings of Edwidge Danticat (Haiti/US) novelist and short-story writer [9 items] http://bit.ly/2tiJP8J
Jean Rhys
- Writings of Jean Rhys (Dominica): novelist and short story writer [17 items] http://bit.ly/2u1jR88
- About Rhys’ life and work [8 items] http://bit.ly/2tjDD09
Derek Walcott
- Writings of Derek Walcott (St Lucia): poet, playwright and essayist; Nobel Laureate. [32 items] http://bit.ly/2ur33c0
- Derek Walcott : a Caribbean life [biography] / Bruce King. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1894055~S1
- Derek Walcott : an annotated bibliography of his works / Irma E. Goldstraw. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1157893~S1
- Derek Walcott : a bibliography of published poems, 1944-1979 / Irma E. Goldstraw. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2132476~S1
- The crowning of a poet's quest : Derek Walcott's Tiepolo's Hound / Paola Loreto. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3132660~S1
- Derek Walcott : memory as vision : 'Another life' / Edward Baugh. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1103580~S1
- Derek Walcott [ Contemporary world writers series] / John Thieme. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1869264~S1
- Epic of the dispossessed : Derek Walcott's Omeros / Robert D. Hamner. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1787672~S1
- Nobody's nation : reading Derek Walcott / Paul Breslin. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1980810~S1
- Derek Walcott : politics and poetics / Paula Burnett. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1974064~S1
- Interlocking basins of a globe : essays on Derek Walcott / edited by Jean Antoine-Dunne. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3302106~S1
Jamaica Kincaid
- The works of Jamaica Kincaid, novelist, essayist and short story writer. [10 items ] http://bit.ly/2vunQbr
- On Kincaid’s life and work [10 items] http://bit.ly/2t8nExw
Frantz Fanon
- Works by Fanon (Martinique): anticolonial scholar of empire, race and the psychiatric impacts of coloniality. [24 items] http://bit.ly/2t8HsRA
- On Fanon’s life and work [10 items] http://bit.ly/2urOi8O
(Edward) Kamau Brathwaite
- Works by the poet and literary scholar [38 items] http://bit.ly/2uAOh2C
Arthur Lewis
Works by Lewis (St Lucia): Regional Economist and Nobel Laureate [39 items] http://bit.ly/2v9Nxyp
Edouard Glissant
- Works by Glissant (Martinique): philosopher, poet and literary critic; theorist of cosmopolitanism. [20 items] http://bit.ly/2valqPK
Erna Brodber
Works by Brodber (Jamaica) sociologist, activist and novelist. [ 14 items ] http://bit.ly/2u1NuGm
Sam Selvon
- Works by Selvon (Trinidad): playwright and early novelist of Caribbean diasporic life. [19 items ] http://bit.ly/2v9NVgl
Patrick Chamoiseau
- Works by Chamoiseau (Martinique): novelist, essayist and cultural theorist of the Creolité movement. [ 25 items ] http://bit.ly/2urDYgI
V. S. Naipaul
- Works by Naipal (Trinidad): novelist and Nobel Laureate. [46 items ] http://bit.ly/2tjh0Je
George Lamming
- Works by Lamming (Barbados): Novelist and decolonial thinker. [21 items] http://bit.ly/2uvw2Lh
Jose Martí
- Works by Marti (Cuba) poet, essayist, novelist and revolutionary philosopher. [30 items ] http://bit.ly/2t8kdqE
Alejo Carpentier
- Works by Carpentier (Cuba): renowned novelist and essayist. [72 items ] http://bit.ly/2txJZEe
CLR James
- Works by CLR (Trinidad): political philosopher, historian and socialist activist; intellectual architect of the West Indian Federation (see following section for his personal papers). [64 items] http://bit.ly/2vamCmc
Jose Lezama Lima
- Works by Lezama Lima (Cuba): novelist and poet. [28 items] http://bit.ly/2u1ZgyQ
Nicolas Guillen
- Works by Guilen (Cuba): poet, journalist, political activist and writer; former national poet of Cuba and active in the negrista movement [29 items] http://bit.ly/2uAF7mI
Sylvia Wynter
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New Seville, major facts, major questions / [Sylvia Wynter] http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2278689~S24
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Sylvia Wynter : on being human as praxis / Katherine McKittrick, ed. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3380815~S24
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The hills of Hebron / Sylvia Wynter. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1425641~S24
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Jamaica's national heroes / With a foreward [sic] by Hugh Shearer. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1341423~S24