Before I give you the list, it might be important to tell you want I'm doing. I am studying the spatial organization of empire in the Caribbean. In other words, I want to know how empires constructed themselves as physical and social spaces and how that reflects in the literature of Caribbean peoples. That's the short version anyway.
Now for the list:
Novels
(Early Period)
The English in the West Indies , Or, the Bow of Ulysses by James Anthony
Froude (1888)
Wonderful Adventures
of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands by Mary Seacole (1857)
Rupert Gray, a Study
in Black and White by Stephen N. Cobham (1907)
Emmanuel Appadocca by
Michel Maxwell Philip (1854)
(Modern and Mid-20th Century)
Minty Alley by C.
L. R. James (1936)
A Morning at the
Office by Edgar Mittelholzer (1950)
Wide Sargasso
Sea by Jean Rhys (1966)
Brother Man by
Roger Mais (1954)
(Contemporary)
The Enigma of Arrival by
V. S. Naipaul (1987)
Frangipani House by
Beryl Gilroy
(1986)
A Map to the Door of
No Return: Notes to Belonging by Dionne
Brand (2004)
(Genre and Related Contemporary)
Crystal Rain by
Tobias S. Buckell (2006)
Ragamuffin by
Tobias S. Buckell (2007)
Sly Mongoose by
Tobias S. Buckell (2008)(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 (2000)
Redemption in Indigo by
Karen Lord (2010)
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
Yards in the City of Kingston by Erna
Brodber
Any suggested additions?
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Any suggested additions?
Hi
ReplyDeleteIf you want someone to talk to about Ph.D. quals, lemme know. I'm not in your field/sub specialty (English lit, Medieval-1832, Medieval English and Celtic langs/lits for me) but I can at least maybe remind you that there is life after.
Either way, you persevere. And try to find things to enjoy/love about the texts, despite the exams.
Thanks. I think I got the exams pretty covered in terms of expectation. Just need to finish up the remaining drafts for exam materials!
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