West Indian


The Wine of Astonishment (Caribbean Writers Series)
A House for Mr Biswas
Miguel Street (Vintage International)
Green Days by the River (Caribbean Writers Series)
Pleasantview
The God of Good Looks
The Girl with the Hazel Eyes
The Bread the Devil Knead
Ways of Sunlight (Longman Caribbean Writer Series)
Jumbie Bird (Longman Caribbean Writer Series)
Is Just a Movie
The Schoolmaster (Caribbean Writers Series)
Harriet's Daughter
Beka Lamb
Annie John
The Girl Who Married a Skull by Kel McDonaldWhen You Were Everything by Ashley WoodfolkJustin by L.J. AlongeBalancing Act by Paula ChaseThe Hero of Numbani by Nicky Drayden
Spotlight: Must Read Black YA/MG
70 books — 4 voters
The Color Purple by Alice WalkerInvisible Man by Ralph EllisonSong of Solomon by Toni MorrisonA Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. GainesDevil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley
Award-winning Black Fiction
51 books — 68 voters

The Nutmeg Princess by Richardo Keens-DouglasJasmine's Parlour Day by Lynn JosephAn Island Christmas by Lynn JosephThe Jumbies by Tracey BaptisteDown by the River by Grace Hallworth
Caribbean Children's Literature
69 books — 14 voters
Mid Ocean by T. Rafael CiminoOh Happy Day by Michelle Ragoonanan-AliZero Defect by Aarohan AtwalHe Drown She in the Sea by Shani MootooEpic Adventure of Shiva, the Destroyer of Tripura by M. Vizhakat
Indo-Caribbean Fiction
20 books — 15 voters


Errol Hill
One of the major differences between ritual and theatre is that in ritual one communicates with the gods whereas in theatre communication is established with a human audience
Errol Hill

Safiya Sinclair
The word "cannibal," the English variant of the Spanish word canibal, comes from the word caribal, a reference to the native Carib people in the West Indies, who Columbus thought ate human flesh and from whom the word "Caribbean" originated. By virtue of being Caribbean, all "West Indian" people are already, in a purely linguistic sense, born savage. ...more
Safiya Sinclair, Cannibal

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