Literature

Culture, Literature, Reviews

Caribbean Bookshelf (November/December 1995)

Music Bachata: A Social History Of Dominican Popular Music Deborah Pacini Hernandez (Temple University Press, Philadelphia, 1995) When the...

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Culture, Literature, Trinidad and Tobago

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...

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Culture, Literature, Music, Reviews

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...

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Culture, Literature, Reviews

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;...

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Culture, Literature, Arts, Trinidad and Tobago

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...

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Culture, Literature, Arts, Trinidad and Tobago

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...

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Culture, Literature, Reviews

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...

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Culture, Literature, Arts

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...

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