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This book offers a history of post-Independence Trinidad and Tobago. It explores how culture and politics have operated in tandem to shape the society. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including literature, government reports, official statistics, the press and the Carnival, it critically analyses the popular conception of creolization as the driving force in modern Trinidad and Tobago. Ultimately, the book examines the way in which Trinida...

This book offers a history of post-Independence Trinidad and Tobago. It explores how culture and politics have operated in tandem to shape the society. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including literature, government reports, official statistics, the press and the Carnival, it critically analyses the popular conception of creolization as the driving force in modern Trinidad and Tobago. Ultimately, the book examines the way in which Trinida...

A complex, rich and rewarding new poetry collection from Raymond Ramcharitar.

A poetic approach to revising and re-creating Caribbean mythology on an epic scale, this book-length autobiographical poem in five parts addresses the large themes of the Caribbean experience: history, migration, myth, and domestic love. The different movements vary in style and tone--from blank verse, to terza rima, to heroic couplets--but are unified by the voice of the single narrator, which changes over time. Prefaced by a passage from the...

This ambitious collection of poetry, while centered in Trinidad, remains global in its scope and movement. Its thoroughly contemporary voice shows concern for traditional form with a confident use of rhythm and rhyme and a subject matter that moves between Europe, the Caribbean, and North America--drawing comparisons to Derek Walcott and Wallace Stevens.

In four short stories and a novella that convey a complex vision of the Caribbean, this breakthrough collection is written with a profound and disturbed sense of the history that shapes the region and rejects all serene and sentimental images of the islands and its people. Imaginatively and honestly presenting how human relations have become distorted as a result of the class and racial divides wrought by colonialism, these acerbic narratives ...