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Literatures in English: Caribbean Region

This page lists sources that cover multiple periods, genres, and/or nationalities. See additional resources in the "Historical Literary Period" and "Geographical Region" pages.

Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Companions, Biography, Etc.

Dance, Daryl Cumber. Fifty Caribbean Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical and Critical Sourcebook. NY: Greenwood Press, 1986. Geisel Reference PR 9205 .A52 F54 1986; also in 7th Fl. stacks.

Encyclopedia of Caribbean Literature. Ed. Figueredo, D. H. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2006. Geisel 7th Fl. PN849 .C3 E53.

Encyclopedia of Latin Americn and Caribbean Literature, 1900-2003. Ed. Daniel Balderston and Mike Gonzalez. NY: Routledge, 2004. Online and Geisel 2nd Fl. West Reference PQ 7081 .A1 E558 2004

Herdeck, Donald E. et al., eds. Caribbean Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical-Critical Encyclopedia. Washington DC: Three Continents, 1979. Geisel 2nd Fl. West Reference PR 9210.5 .C37; also in 7th Fl. stacks.

The Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean Literature. Ed. Michael Bucknor and Alison Donnell. NY: Routledge, 2011.

Walder, Dennis. Post-Colonial Literatures in English: History, Language, Theory. Blackwell Publishers, 1998. Geisel 7th Fl. PR9080 .W25

Useful Websites

Digital LIbrary of the Caribbean (dLOC). This website privides (mostly) bibliographic records for materials held at several dozen research libraries, both in the Caribbean region itself, and in a few U.S. libraries (especially from the state of Florida). Not many of these records lead to full texts. There isn't a great emphasis on strictly literary materials, but the site is very useful for identifying primary and secondary sources on the history, economy, geography, politics, and culture of the region. It includes a particularly strong sub-section on voodoo.