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| Introduction | |
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| Frank Collymore (1893-1980) (Barbados) Some People are Meant to Live Alone | |
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| Jean Rhys (1894-1979) (Dominica) Pioneers, Oh, Pioneers | |
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| Alfred Mendes (1897-1971) (Trinidad) Pablo's Fandango | |
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| Eric Walrond (1898-1966) (Guyana) Drought | |
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| C. L. R. James (1901-1989) (Trinidad) Triumph | |
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| Alejo Carpentier (1904-1983) (Cuba) Journey to the Seed | |
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| Roger Mais (1905-1955) (Jamaica) Red Dirt Don't Wash | |
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| Juan Bosch (b. 1910) (Dominican Republic) Encarnacion Mendoza's Christmas Eve | |
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| G. Cabrera Infante (b. 1922) (Cuba) The Doors Open at Three | |
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| Sam Selvon (1923-1994) (Trinidad) The Cricket Match | |
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| John Wickham (b. 1923) (Barbados) The Light on the Sea | |
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| Jan Carew (b. 1925) (Guyana) Tilson Ezekiel Alias Ti-Zek | |
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| Ismith Khan (b. 1925) (Trinidad) Shadows Move in the Britannia Bar | |
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| Rene Depestre (b. 1926) (Haiti) Rosena on the Mountain | |
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| Roy Heath (b. 1926) (Guyana) The Master Tailor and the Teacher's Skirt | |
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| Gabriel Garcia Marquez (b. 1928) (Colombia) The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship | |
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| Andrew Salkey (1928-1995) (Jamaica) A Proper Anno Domini Feeling | |
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| Paule Marshall (b. 1929) (Barbados) To Da-Duh, in Memoriam | |
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| Kamau Brathwaite (b. 1930) (Barbados) Dream Haiti | |
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| Antonio Benitez Rojo (b. 1931) (Cuba) Buried Statues | |
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| Michael Anthony (b. 1932) (Trinidad) They Better Don't Stop the Carnival | |
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| V. S. Naipaul (b. 1932) (Trinidad) The Night Watchman's Occurrence Book | |
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| John Stewart (b. 1933) (Trinidad) The Old Men Used to Dance | |
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| Austin Clarke (b. 1934) (Barbados) Leaving this Island Place | |
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| Earl Lovelace (b. 1935) (Trinidad) Victory and the Blight | |
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| Maryse Conde (b. 1937) (Guadeloupe) The Breadnut and the Breadfruit | |
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| Velma Pollard (b. 1937) (Jamaica) Altamont Jones | |
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| Thea Doelwijt (b. 1938) (Surinam) In Foreign Parts | |
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| Rosario Ferre (b. 1938) (Puerto Rico) When Women Love Men | |
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| E. A. Markham (b. 1939) (Montserrat) Mammie's Form at the Post Office | |
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| Myriam Warner-Vieyra (b. 1939) (Guadeloupe) Passport to Paradise | |
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| Clyde Hosein (b. 1940) (Trinidad) Morris, Bhaiya | |
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| Willi Chen (b. 1941) (Trinidad) Trotters | |
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| Pauline Melville (b. 1941) (Guyana) The Conversion of Millicent Vernon | |
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| Olive Senior (b. 1941) (Jamaica) Do Angels Wear Brassieres? | |
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| Reinaldo Arenas (1943-1990) (Cuba) Goodbye Mother | |
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| Lawrence Scott (b. 1943) (Trinidad) Ballad for the New World | |
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| Ana Lydia Vega (b. 1946) (Puerto Rico) Eye-Openers | |
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| Jean 'Binta' Breeze (b. 1947) (Jamaica) Sunday Cricket | |
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| Astrid Roemer (b. 1947) (Surinam) The Inheritance of my Father: A Story for Listening | |
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| Jamaica Kincaid (b. 1949) (Antigua) Blackness | |
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| Merle Collins (b. 1950) (Grenada) The Walk | |
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| Edgardo Sanabria Santaliz (b. 1951) (Puerto Rico) After the Hurricane | |
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| Patrick Chamoiseau (b. 1953) (Martinique) Red Hot Peppers | |
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| Lionel Seepaul (b. 1955) (Trinidad) Pan for Pockot | |
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| Makeda Silvera (b. 1955) (Jamaica) Caribbean Chameleon | |
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| Robert Antoni (b. 1957) (Trinidad/Bahamas) A World of Canes | |
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| Zoila Ellis (b. 1957) (Belize) The Waiting Room | |
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| Sasenarine Persaud (b. 1957) (Guyana) Canada Geese and Apple Chatney | |
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| Geoffrey Philp (b. 1958) (Jamaica) My Brother's Keeper | |
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| Alecia Mckenzie (b. 1960) (Jamaica) Private School | |
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| Edwidge Danticat (b. 1969) (Haiti) Nineteen Thirty-Seven | |
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| Biographical Notes | |
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| Suggestions for Wider Reading | |
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| Publisher's Acknowledgements | |