By Caribbean Beat ● Issue 16 (November/December 1995)
Caribbean Bookshelf (November/December 1995)
Music Bachata: A Social History Of Dominican Popular Music Deborah Pacini Hernandez (Temple University Press, Philadelphia, 1995) When the...
Culture, Literature, Trinidad and Tobago
By Judy Raymond ● Issue 17 (January/February 1996)
Indigo: Marina Warner
The English writer Marina Warner was almost a Trinidadian. In the 1970s, when Britain s nationality laws were changed, she realised that if...
Culture, Literature, Music, Reviews
By Caribbean Beat ● Issue 18 (March/April 1996)
Upbeat & Bookshelf (March/April 1996)
Music Tales From A Strange Land David Rudder (Lypsoland) Since 1986, when he burst onto the Carnival scene by capturing every calypso title...
By Caribbean Beat ● Issue 19 (May/June 1996)
Bookshelf (May/June 1996)
The Autobiography Of My Mother Jamaica Kincaid (Farrar Straus Giroux, 1996) Jamaica Kincaid was born in Antigua and is based in Vermont;...
Culture, Literature, Arts, Trinidad and Tobago
By Earl Lovelace ● Issue 22 (November/December 1996)
You Must Help Him (from Earl Lovelace’s “Salt”)
She saw him on the shore, still eighteen, with the pathos of his pulled-down cap and his dark shades, his affected seriousness, and his...
Culture, Literature, Arts, Trinidad and Tobago
By Sam Selvon ● Issue 23 (January/February 1997)
Passing Cloud
Like many other West Indians, Dan had gone overseas to study, and found his world different when he came back . . . This poignant short...
By Various Contributors ● Issue 23 (January/February 1997)
Caribbean Bookshelf (January/February 1997)
FICTION The Counting House David Dabydeen (Jonathan Cape 1996, pb, ISBN 0-224-043439) Set in India and British Guiana in the mid-19th...
By Paul Keens-Douglas ● Issue 23 (January/February 1997)
Caribbean Poets: Vibert Reach Home
He had an eventful day. But when he got home the truth began to emerge. Paul Keens-Douglas tells the story . . . De boy leave here good...