Monday, May 28, 2012

Beyond Sangre Grande: Caribbean Writing Today

Beyond Sangre Grande: Caribbean Writing Today
An Anthology of Caribbean Literature Edited by Cyril Dabydeen
www.tsarbooks.com

Caribbean literature has always been exciting and diverse, including over the past decades some of the world’s most highly regarded writers. Beyond Sangre Grande brings together a contemporary selection in English from some of the key writers living in Canada, the US, and the UK, as well as various countries of the Caribbean. Reflecting a changing world, and admitting diverse cultural influences and generational differences, these writers maintain a distinct Caribbean-ness in their acute historical awareness and in the cadences and rhythms of their language and include:

OPAL PALMER ADISA • EDWARD BAUGH • KAMAU BRATHWAITE • MARINA BUDHOS CHRISTIAN CAMPBELL • WILLI CHEN • AUSTIN CLARKE • MERLE COLLINS • MADELINE COOPSAMMY • CYRIL DABYDEEN • DAVID DABYDEEN • FRED D’AGUIAR • RAYWAT DEONANDAN • BERNADETTE DYER • ZEE EDGELL • RAMABAI ESPINET • BRENDA FLANAGAN • HORACE GODDARD • ANSON GONZALEZ • LORNA GOODISON • KARL GORDON • CLAIRE HARRIS • NALO HOPKINSON • PETER JAILALL • ANTHONY KELLMAN VLADIMIR LUCIEN • JOY MAHABIR • LEELAWATTI MANOO-RAHMING • IAN MCDONALD MARK MCWATT • PAMELA MORDECAI • N OJI MZILIKAZI • ELIZABETH NUNEZ • ELLY NYLAND • SASENARINE PERSAUD • GEOFF PHILPS • VELMA POLLARD • JENNIFER RAHIM SAM SELVON • OLIVE SENIOR • H NIGEL THOMAS • DEREK WALCOTT • MARK JASON WELCH