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
Reading Time
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.
Froude
of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands by Mary Seacole
in Black and White by Stephen N. Cobham
Michel Maxwell Philip
L. R. James
Office by Edgar Mittelholzer
Sea by Jean Rhys
V. S. Naipaul
Beryl Gilroy
No Return: Notes to Belonging by
Dianne Brand
Tobias S. Buckell
Tobias S. Buckell
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)
Nalo Hopkinson
Karen Lord
etc.
Space by Henri Lefebvre
David Harvey
Essay in Spatial History by Paul Carter
the Future by Fredric Jameson
Gaston Bachelard
Theory, etc.)
Simon Gikandi
Edouard Glissant
Island: the Caribbean
and the Postmodern Perspective by Rojo Antonio Benitez
by George Lamming
the Decline of Colonialism to the End of Federation by Elisabeth Wallace
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