C. L. R. James

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C.L.R. James: A Critical Introduction
by Aldon Lynn Nielsen. 206 pgs.

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A critical analysis of writings of a founder of the Pan-African revolution.

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Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

A Note on Usage

Introduction: The Black Critic as Prisoner and Artist

I: Spheres of Existence What Maisie Knew

2: At the Rendezvous of Victory

3: The Future in the Present

4: The Struggle for Happiness

Works Cited

Index
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C.L.R. James's Caribbean
by Paget Henry, Paul Buhle. 290 pgs.

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Preface

Part I: Portraits and Self-Portraits

Two: C. L. R. James on the Caribbean: Three Letters

Three: C. L. R. James : West Indian George Lamming Interviewed

Part II: The Early Trinidadian Years

Five: The Making of a Literary Life C. L. R. James Interviewed

Part III: Textual Explorations

Seven: Cricket and National Culture in the Writings of C. L. R. James

Eight: Caliban as Deconstructionist: C. L. R. James and Post-Colonial Discourse Paget Henry and Paul Buhle

Part IV: Praxis

Ten: C. L. R. James and Trinidadian Nationalism

Eleven: The Question of the Canon: C. L. R. James and Modern Politics

Twelve: C. L. R. James and the Antiguan Left Paget Henry

Appendix: Excerpts from the Life of Captain Cipriani

Chronology

Index

Contributors
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C.L.R. James and Creolization: Circles of Influence
by Nicole King. 168 pgs.

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C. L. R. James (1901-1989), one of the most important intellectuals of the twentieth century, expressed his postcolonial and socialist philosophies in fiction, speeches, essays, and book-length scholarly discourses. However, the majority of academic attention given to James keeps the diverse mediums of James's writing separate, focuses on his work as a political theorist, and subordinates his role as a fiction writer.
This book, however, seeks to change such an approach to studying James. Defining creolization as a process by which European, African, Amerindian, Asian, and American cultures are amalgamated to form new hybrid identities and cultures, Nicole King uses this process as a means to understanding James's work and life. She argues that, throughout his career, whether writing a short story or a political history, James articulated his attempt to produce revolutionary, radical discourses with a consistent methodology.
James, a Trinidad-born scholar who migrated to England and then to the United States and who described himself both as a black radical and a Victorian intellectual, serves as a definitive model of creolization.
King argues that James's writings also fit the model of creolization, for each is influenced by diverse types of discourses. James rarely wrote from within the confines of a single discipline, instead choosing to make the layers of history, literature, philosophy, and political theory coalesce in order to make his point. As his West Indian and Western European influences converge in his work and life, he creates texts that are difficult to confine to a specific category or discipline. No matter which writerly medium he uses, James was preoccupied withhow to represent the individual personality and at the same time represent the community.
The C. L. R. James that emerges from King's study is a man made more compelling and more human because of his complicated, multilayer

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C.L.R. James and Creolization

Mapping Creolization

Double or Nothing: The Two Black Jacobins

Framing Community: Minty Alley, La Rue Cases Negres, and Class Consciousness

Factions and Fictions: Considerations of the “negro Question”

Family Matters: Nation, Federation, Integration

Metaphors of Nationalism: Music, Sport, and Racial Representation

Coda

Notes

Works Cited

Index
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Marxism for Our Times: C.L.R. James on Revolutionary Organization
by C. L. R. James, Martin Glaberman. 212 pgs.

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The writings of a Marxist at work.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

Notes

Education, Propaganda, Agitation: Post-War America and Bolshevism

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Marxism for Our Times

Notes

Letters on Organization

Perspectives and Proposals

Notes

Appendix: Theory and Practice

Notes

Index
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Social Theory: The Multicultural and Classic Readings (includes "Black Power and Stokely" by C. L. R. James)
by Charles Lemert. 674 pgs.

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"A rich, highly textured, historically sweeping, & strikingly inclusive collection that aims to reconstruct, perhaps for the first time, the actual dialogue of contemporary social thought." Jeffrey Alexander University of California at Los Angeles "Charles Lemert captures the surfacing of multiple theoretical voices in the postmodern era. No theory course should be without Social Theory." Steve Seidman State University of New York at Albany

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Introduction Social Theory

Part One: Modernity's Classical Age: 1848-1919

The Two Sides of Society

Estranged Labour

Camera Obscura

Class Struggle

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

On Imperialism in India

The Values of Commodities

The Fetishism of Commodities

Labour-Power and Capital

The Patriarchal Family

Anomie and the Modern Division of Labor

Sociology and Social Facts

Suicide and Modernity

Primitive Classifications and Social Knowledge

The Cultural Logic of Collective Representations

The Spirit of Capitalism and the Iron Cage

The Bureaucratic Machine

What Is Politics?

The Types of Legitimate Domination

Class, Status, Party

The Psychical Apparatus and the Theory of Instincts

Dream-Work and Interpretation

Oedipus, the Child

Remembering, Repeating, and Working-Through

The Return of the Repressed in Social Life

Civilization and the Individual

Arbitrary Social Values and the Linguistic Sign

The Self and Its Selves

Split Lives in the Modern World

Double-Consciousness and the Veil

The Spirit of Modern Europe

The Yellow Wallpaper

Women and Economics

The Colored Woman's Office

The Stranger

The Looking-Glass Self

Part Two: Social Theories and World Conflict: 1919-1945

Action, Knowledge, Self

The New Liberalism

The Irrational Chasm Between Subject and Object

The Unit Act of Action Systems

What Is to Be Done?

The Sociology of Knowledge and Ideology

Psychoanalysis and Sociology

The Self, the I, and the Me

Social Structure and Anomie

Unavoidable Dilemmas

Moral Man and Immoral Society

The Negro Problem as a Moral Issue

Disorganization of the Polish Immigrant

Personality and Status Within the Gang

Art, War, and Fascism

A Room of One's Own

Intellectuals and Hegemony

Nonviolent Force: A Spiritual Dilemma

Identity, Struggle, Contradiction

The Japanese and the Americans

Part Three: The Golden Moment: 1945-1963

The Golden Age

On the United States and Containment of the Soviets

The End of Ideology in the West

Modernization: Stages of Growth

Action Systems and Social Systems

Sex Roles in the American Kinship System

Manifest and Latent Functions

The Structural Study of Myth

Semiological Prospects

Why Theory?

Doubts and Reservations

Character and Society: The Other-directed Personality

Youth and American Identity

On Face-Work

The Eccentric Self and the Discourse of the Other

Others Object

Woman as Other

Between Colonizer and Colonized

The Power of Nonviolent Action

The Sociological Imagination

Participatory Democracy (from The Port Huron Statement)

The Problem That Has No Name

Decolonizing, National Culture, and the Negro Intellectual

Part Four: Will the Center Hold? 1963-1979

Experiments at Renewal and Reconstruction

Change and the Planning System

Emancipatory Knowledge

Society as a Human Product

Knowing a Society from Within: A Woman's Standpoint

The Modern World-System

The State as a Janus-faced Structure

Breaking with Modernity

Toward a Reflexive Sociology

Repressive Desublimation

Reflexive Properties of Practical Sociology

Structures, Habitus, Practices

The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

Part Five: After Modernity, Since 1979

The Idea of the Postmodern

Whither Postmodernism?

The Postmodern Condition

Simulacra and Simulations: Disneyland

Reactions and Alternatives

Post-Modernity or Radicalized Modernity?

Radical Democracy: Alternative for a New Left

Foucault on Power: A Theory for Women?

The Afrocentric Idea

Postpositivist Case for the Classics

The New Social Structure and the New Social Science

E Pluribus Unum?

After Modernity

The New Cultural Politics of Difference

"Race" as the Trope of the World

The Cyborg Manifesto and Fractured Identities

Infinite Layers/Third World?

Can the Subaltern Speak?

Black Feminist Thought in the Matrix of Domination

The New Mestiza

Sexual Identification Is a Strange Thing

Imitation and Gender Insubordination

Who Is Your Mother? Red Roots of White Feminism

The End of the Modern Era

Part Six: Searching for the Millennium

Future Social Science and the Invisible Elbow

Rethinking the Globalizing World

The Information Age

The Global Network

The City in a Globalizing World

The Global, the Local, and the Return of Ethnicity

The New Social Formations

Cultural Criticism and Telecommunications

Working Women in the Time Bind

The Productivity of the Closet

The Courage to Stand Alone

Final Notes: Where Does Reading End?

Acknowledgments/1999 Edition

Index
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The Routledge Reader in Caribbean Literature ("Triumph" by C.L.R. James begins on p. 84 and "Discovering Literature in Trinidad" by C.L.R. James begins on p. 163)
by Alison Donnell, Sarah Lawson Welsh. 544 pgs.

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The Routledge Reader in Caribbean Literature is an outstanding compilation of over seventy primary and secondary texts of writing from the Caribbean. Locating key writers within a specifically Caribbean framework, the editors Alison Donnell and Sarah Lawson Welsh demonstrate that these singular voices have emerged not out of a cultural void or sparse literary background, but out of a wealth of literary tradition which until now was unknown or critically neglected. Writers from 1900 to the present, both famous and less well-known, are given a voice in this remarkable anthology which encompasses poetry, short stories, essays, articles and interviews. Amongst the many represented here are: * C.L.R. James * George Lamming * Jean Rhys * Benjamin Zephaniah * Claude McKay * Jamaica Kincaid * Sylvia Wynter * Derek Walcott * David Dabydeen * Grace Nichols The editors provide an accessible historical and cultural introduction to the writings, making this volume an ideal teaching tool as well as a fascinating collection for anyone interested in the literature of the Caribbean.

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General Introduction

1900-29

1930-49

1950-65

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1966-79

1980-89

The 1990s

Bibliography

Index

Errata: Copyright Acknowledgements
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Radical Caribbean: From Black Power to Abu Bakr (Chap. Seven "Rereading The Black Jacobins: James, the Dialectic and the Revolutionary Conjuncture")
by Brian Meeks. 158 pgs.

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Foreword

Acknowledgements

Chapter Seven Re-Reading the Black Jacobins: James, the Dialectic and the Revolutionary Conjuncture

Notes

Chapter Eight the Political Moment in Jamaica: the Dimensions of Hegemonic Dissolution

Notes

Bibliography

Index
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What's My Name? Black Vernacular Intellectuals (Chap. 2 "C. L. R. James, Marginal Intellectual")
by Grant Farred. 317 pgs.

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Introduction: Thinking in the Vernacular

Chapter 1: Muhammad Ali, Third World Contender

Chapter 2: C. L. R. James, Marginal Intellectual

Chapter 3: Stuart Hall, the Scholarship Boy

Chapter 4: Bob Marley, Postcolonial Sufferer

Notes

Permissions

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Dual Legacies in the Contemporary Caribbean: Continuing Aspects of British and French Dominion ("The Social and Political Thought of Aimé Césaire and C.L.R. James: Some Comparisons" begins on p. 201)
by Paul Sutton. 266 pgs.

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Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction: the Past in the Present

The Post-War Decline of the Sugar Economy in the Commonwealth Caribbean

Sugar in Barbados and Martinique: a Socio-Economic Comparison

The Sugar Protocol of the Lomé Conventions and the Caribbean

Citizenship and Parliamentary Politics in the English-Speaking Caribbean

The Political Economy of Independence of the Former Associated States of the Commonwealth Caribbean

Guyane: a Département like the Others?

I: An Economic Policy for Martinique

The Social and Political Thought of Aimé Césaire and C.L.R. James: Some Comparisons

Cultural Dualism and Political Domination in Haiti

Contemporary Educational Issues in the Commonwealth Caribbean

Index

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International Trotskyism, 1929-1985: A Documented Analysis of the Movement
by Robert J. Alexander. 1128 pgs.

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Origins and Nature of International Trotskyism

Some General Characteristics of International Trotskyism

Albanian Trotskyism

Trotskyism in Algeria

Argentine Trotskyism

The First Phase of Australian Trotskyism

The Revival of Australian Trotskyism

Austrian Trotskyism

Belgian Trotskyism Before World War II

Belgian Trotskyism During and After World War II

Trotskyism in Black Africa

Trotskyism in Bolivia

Trotskyism in Brazil

Bulgarian Trotskyism

Canadian Trotskyism

Trotskyism in Ceylon/ Sri Lanka: the Rise of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party

Trotskyism in Ceylon/ Sri Lanka: Split and Decline of Ceylon/Sri Lanka Trotskyism

Chilean Trotskyism

Trotskyism in China

Trotskyism in Colombia

Costa Rican Trotskyism

Cuban Trotskyism

Trotskyism in Cyprus

Trotskyism in Czechoslovakia

Danish Trotskyism

Ecuadorean Trotskyism

Egyptian Trotskyism

Finnish Trotskyism

Fomento Obrero Revolucionario

Fourth International: from International Left Opposition to Movement for the Fourth International

Fourth International: the Establishment of the Fourth International

The Fourth International: the Fourth International During World War II

The Fourth International: the Immediate Post- World War II Period

Fourth International: Split and Partial Reunion

French Trotskyism Before World War II

French Trotskyism During World War II

French Trotskyism: from Pci to New Pci

French Trotskyism: the 1952 Pci Minority and Its Heirs; Lutte Ouvrière and Other French Trotskyist Groups

Trotskyism in the French Antilles

German Trotskyism Before World War II

German Trotskyism During and After World War II

Trotskyism in Great Britain: the Early Years of British Trotskyism

British Trotskyism: from Revolutionary Socialist League to Revolutionary Communist Party

British Trotskyism Since World War Ii: the Rcp and the Healyites

British Trotskyism Since World War Ii: International Socialists, Img, Militants, and Other Groups

Trotskyism in Greece

Healyite International Committee

Hungarian Trotskyism

Trotskyism in Iceland

Trotskyism in India

Indonesian Trotskyism

International Committe of the Fourth International of the 1950s

International Committee of the Fourth International of the 1960s

International Revolutionary Marxist Tendency

International Secretariat of the Fourth International of the 1950s

International Socialist Tendency

International Spartacist Tendency

International Workers League (fourth International)

Iranian Trotskyism

Trotskyism in Ireland

Trotskyism in Israel

Italian Trotskyism

Japanese Trotskyism

Trotskyism in Korea

Trotskyism in Lebanon

Trotskyism in Luxemburg

Trotskyism in Mexico

Trotskyism in the Netherlands

Trotskyism in New Zealand

Nicaraguan Trotskyism

Norwegian Trotskyism

Organizing Committee for the Reconstruction of the Fourth International (corqi)

Trotskyism in Panama

Peruvian Trotskyism

Polish Trotskyism

Trotskyism in Portugal

Posadista Fourth International

Trotskyism in Puerto Rico

Trotskyism in Romania

South African Trotskyism

Spanish Trotskyism Until the Formation of the Poum

Spanish Trotskyism Just Before and During the Civil War

Trotskyism in Spain After the Civil War

Swedish Trotskyism

Trotskyism in Switzerland

Trotskyist International Liaison Committee

Trotskyism in Turkey

Tunisian Trotskyism

Lutte Ouvrière Tendency of International Trotskyism

Trotskyism in Jamaica

Trotskyism in Mauritius

Trotskyism in Iraq

Moroccan Trotskyism

Trotskyism in El Salvador

Trotskyism in Honduras

Trotskyism in the Dominican Republic

United Secretariat of the Fourth International: Its Origins

The Trajectory of the United Secretariat

U.S. Trotskyism: from the Cannonite Faction to the Workers Party

U.S. Trotskyism: the French Turn in the United States

U.S. Trotskyism: the Shachtmanite Split

U.S. Trotskyism: the Swp During and Immediately After World War II

U.S. Trotskyism: the Swp in the Difficult 1950s

U.S. Trotskyism: the Swp, the Ysa, and the New Left Movements in the 1960s

U.S. Trotskyism: the Socialist Workers Party in the 1970s and Early 1980s

U.S. Trotskyism: the Swp Purge of the Early 1980s and Its Aftermath

U.S. Trotskyism: the Shachtmanite Tradition After Shachtman

U.S. Trotskyism: the Workers World Party, Spartacist League, Workers League and Their Offshoots

U.S. Trotskyism: Other U.S. Trotskyist and Ex-Trotskyist Groups

Uruguayan Trotskyism

Varga Fourth International

Venezuelan Trotskyism

Vietnamese Trotskyism

Yugoslav Trotskyism

Index of People

Index of Organizations

Index of Publications

Miscellaneous Index

About the Author
11.

Thinking and Acting Dialectically: C.L.R. James, the American Years, in Monthly Review
by Grace Lee Boggs. 9 pgs.

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Professional Revolutionary C.L.R. James, in American Visions
by Scott Mclemee. 1 pgs.

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C.L.R. James and the Trinidad & Tobago Intellectual Tradition, Or Not Learning Shakespeare Under a Mango Tree, in New Left Review
by Selwyn R. Cudjoe. 12 pgs.

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Fifty Caribbean Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook
by Daryl Cumber Dance. 532 pgs.

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"Even when available elsewhere, information on these 50 English-language authors is sparse; the in-depth treatment here includes biography, description of major works and themes, summary of critical reception, and an exhaustive bibliography of works by and about each author. Both academic and public libraries will want to accept this invitation to another world." Library Journal

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

Phyllis Shand Allfrey (1915)

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Michael Anthony (1932)

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Lindsay Barrett (1941)

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Louise Bennett (1919)

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Dionne Brand (1953)

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Edward Kamau Brathwaite (1930)

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Erna Brodber (1940)

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Wayne Vincent Brown (1944)

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Jan Carew (1925)

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Martin Wylde Carter (1927)

Austin Clarke (1934)

Frank Collymore (1893-1980)

O. R. Dathorne (1934)

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Neville Dawes (1926-1984)

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Reinhard W. Sander Ralph de Boissiére (1907)

Jean D'Costa (1937)

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Herbert George de Lisser (1878-1944)

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John Joseph Maria Figueroa (1920)

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Wilson Harris (1921)

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John Hearne (1926)

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Roy A. K. Heath (1926)

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Frank E. M. Hercules (1917)

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Merle Hodge (1944)

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C. L. R. James (1901)

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Marion Patrick Jones (1934)

Ismith Khan (1925)

Jamaica Kincaid (1949)

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George Lamming (1927)

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Earl Lovelace (1935)

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Claude McKay (1889-1948)

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Anthony McNeill (1941)

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Roger Mais (1905-1955)

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Alfred H. Mendes (1897)

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Edgar Mittelholzer (1909-1965)

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Mervyn Morris (1937)

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V. S. Naipaul (1932)

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Orlando Patterson (1940)

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Vic Reid (1911)

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Jean Rhys (1890-1979)

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Garth St. Omer (1931)

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Andrew Salkey (1928)

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Dennis Scott (1939)

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Samuel Dickson Selvon (1923)

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A. J. Seymour (1914)

Michael Thelwell (1939)

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Derek Walcott (1930)

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Eric Walrond (1898-1966)

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Denis Williams (1923)

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Francis Williams (1700-1770)

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Sylvia Wynter (1928)

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General Bibliography

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