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Caribbean Poetry:
Barbados



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Resources: Caribbean references

Literary:

Baugh, Edward.  Critics on Caribbean Literature.   Boston:  Allen and Unwin, 1978.

Bobb, June D.  Beating a Restless Drum:  The Poetics of Kamau Brathwaite and Derek Walcott.  New Jersey:  Africa World Press, Inc., 1998.

Breiner, Laurence.  An Introduction to West Indian Poetry.   New York:  Cambridge UP, 1998.

Chancy, Myriam J. A.  Searching for Safe Spaces:   Afro-Caribbean Women Writers in Exile.  Philadelphia:  Temple UP, 1997.

Gikandi, Simon.  Writing in Limbo:  Modernism and Caribbean Literature.  New York:  Cornell UP, 1992.

Language:

Allsopp, Richard.  Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage.   New York:  Oxford UP, 1996.

Brathwaite, Edward Kamau.  History of the Voice:  The Development of Nation Language in Anglophone Caribbean Poetry.  London:   New Beacon Books, 1984.

Morgan, Marcyliena H. and Mervyn Alleyne, eds.  Language and the social construction of identity in Creole Situations.  Los Angeles : Center for Afro-American Studies, 1994.

Ovide, Stephanie.  Creole-English/English-Creole (Caribbean).  New York:  Hippocrene Books, 1996.

Culture:

Brathwaite, Edward Kamau.  The Development of Creole Society in Jamaica 1770-1820.  Oxford:  Clarendon Press, 1971.

Chevannes, Barry, ed.  Rastafari and Other African-Caribbean Worldviews.  Hampsire:  Macmillan, 1995.

Crahan Margaret and Franklin Knight, eds.  Africa and the Caribbean.  Baltimore:  Johns Hopkins UP, 1979.

Gorlach, Manfred and John Holm, eds.  Focus on the Caribbean.  Philadelphia:  J Benjamins Pub. Co., 1986.

Nunley, John and Judith Bettelheim.  Caribbean Festival Arts:  Each and Every Bit of Difference.  Seattle:  U of Washington P, 1988.

Price, Richard.  Maroon Societies.  New York:   Anchor Press, 1973.

Saakana, Amon Saba.  Jah Music:  the Evolution of the Popular Jamaican Song.  Sebastian Clarke.  London:  Heinemann Educational, 1980.

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