Caribbean literature is the term generally accepted for the literature of the various territories of the Caribbean region. Literature in English specifically from the former British West Indies may be referred to as Anglo-Caribbean or, in historical...
West Indian poet Derek Walcott won the Nobel Prize for Literature yesterday, becoming the first Caribbean writer to receive the honor. The prize, worth $1.2 million this year, came four days before the 500th anniversary of Columbus's arrival in the Indies. Yesterday afternoon,...
The Post's editorial, "Think Caribbean" {March 1}, supporting an extension and expansion of the Caribbean Basin Initiative, is intriguing for what it did not say. It suggests that Caribbean countries are too small to prosper without access to larger markets, but fails to mention...
In the following essay, Brathwaite examines African influences on Caribbean folk traditions, stressing that although highly focused on religion, African cultural practices and norms not only survived periods of slavery and colonization, but that they continue to influence Caribbean folk culture in form, literature, and rhetoric.
In the following essay, Luis provides an overview of Spanish-Caribbean literature written in the United States, briefly discussing the works of such authors as Reinaldo Arenas, José Martí, and others.
In the following essay, Phaf explores the interplay between the Caribbean imagination and the literature of the countries comprising the Caribbean basin, focusing particularly on the Antilles and Surinam.
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