Wasafiri 5: Caribbean Focus
Fred D’Aguiar interviews Wilson Harris / Anne Walmsley on the Caribbean Artists Movement / Sam Selvon on East Indian and Trinidadian identities / Short fiction by E A Markham, Faustin Charles and Jan Shinebourne / Poetry by Valerie Bloom / Abdulrazak Gurnah reviews the Longman Caribbean Writers series.
Focus on the Caribbean
Contents
Anne Walmsley
Editorial: The Caribbean Artists Movement 1967-72: Its Inauguration and Significance (research in progress)
Sam Selvon
Three into One Can’t Go: East Indian, Trinidadian or West Indian?
Joyce Johnson
Finding a Literary Medium: Jean D’Costa’s Novels for Children
Jeremy Poynting
African-Indian Relations in Caribbean Fiction: A Reply to A Froude (‘The African and the Asiatic will not Mix’)
Fred D’Aguiar
Interview with Wilson Harris
Louis James
Dark Muse: The early fiction of A K Heath
Faustin Charles
Fiction: The Lagarhoo
E A Markham
Fiction: The Pig was Mine
Jan Shinebourne
Fiction: The Maid in Bel Air
Valerie Bloom
Tables and other poems
Reviews
Mario Rellich
Wilson Harris Carnival and Guyana Quartet
Fred D’Aguiar
Merle Collins Because the Dawn Breaks
Morgan Dalphinis For Those Who Will Come After! Collected Poems
Abdulrazak Gurnah
Longman Caribbean Writers
Ian Watts
Armet Francis The Black Triangle
Philip Nanton
Errol Hill, ed Plays For Today
Faustin Charles
Peter Abrahams This Island Now
Imogen Forster
Gillian Klein Reading into Racism: Bias in Children’s Literature and Learning Materials
Douglas Bloom
Kenneth Ramchand Best West Indian Stories
Cecil Gray Perspectives and Wavelengths
Kenneth Ramchand An Introduction to the Study of West Indian Literature
