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The Preliminary PhD Reading List: Hard Times Ahead (or, Yay Caribbean Literature)

If you didn’t know, I’ve been hard at work putting together my committee and reading list for my PhD exams, which I intend to take in March or April of next year.  The list will likely change in the next few weeks, given feedback from my director, but I thought you’d all like to see what I’m up to academically.

For those that don’t know, I am writing my PhD on the relationship between the Caribbean and the space of Empire (spatiality).  In particular, my work will be an attempt to conceptualize how Empire is spatially constructed and how such constructions are reflected in the literature and resisted/manipulated/etc. by Caribbean peoples/characters/authors/etc.  The idea is to (hopefully) mold together my work on Hopkinson and Buckell for the MA into a larger project on Caribbean literature.
With that in mind, here is the list I’ve so far constructed.  Feel free to offer suggestions of your own, as this reading list is only for my exams and not necessarily for my final project.
Here goes:

Novels
(Early Period)
The English in the West Indies, Or, the Bow of Ulysses by James Anthony
Froude
Wonderful Adventures
of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands
by Mary Seacole
Rupert Gray, a Study
in Black and White
by Stephen N. Cobham
(Modern and Mid-20th Century)
Emmanuel Appadocca by
Michel Maxwell Philip
Minty Alley by C.
L. R. James
A Morning at the
Office
by Edgar Mittelholzer
Wide Sargasso
Sea
by Jean Rhys
(Contemporary)
The Enigma of Arrival by
V. S. Naipaul
Frangipani House by
Beryl Gilroy
Cambridge by Caryl Phillips
A Map to the Door of
No Return:  Notes to Belonging
by
Dianne Brand
(Genre and Related Contemporary)
Crystal Rain by
Tobias S. Buckell
Ragamuffin by
Tobias S. Buckell
Sly Mongoose by
Tobias S. Buckell (note:  there is a fourth
book coming out in this series, which I may add to this list at a later time)
Midnight Robber by
Nalo Hopkinson
Redemption in Indigo by
Karen Lord

Theory, History,
etc.
(Spatial Theory)
The Production of
Space
by Henri Lefebvre
The Urban Experience by
David Harvey
The Road to Botany Bay:  An
Essay in Spatial History
by Paul Carter
The Archaeologies of
the Future
by Fredric Jameson
The Poetics of Space by
Gaston Bachelard
(Caribbean History, Postcolonial
Theory, etc.)
Writing in Limbo by
Simon Gikandi
Poetics of Relation by
Edouard Glissant
The Repeating
Island:  the Caribbean
and the Postmodern Perspective
by Rojo Antonio Benitez
The Pleasures of Exile
by George Lamming
The British Caribbean:  From
the Decline of Colonialism to the End of Federation
by Elisabeth Wallace
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