Caribbean Thought and Letters: Key Thinkers and Writers


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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