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The Event of the anti-colonial struggle which began in the case of a then British Jamaica in the late 1930s, cut across the childhood and early adolescence of Sylvia Wynter, providing the raison d'être of the first phase of her important body of work seen in this collection. The imperative of decolonizing the order of discourse that had legitimated the then imperial order (that is, to the colonizer as well to the colonized), gave rise to a theoretically sustained argument manifest here in a set of seminal critical and historical essays. At the time of their writing, Wynter was a practicing novelist, an innovative playwright, a scholar of Spanish Caribbean history, and an incisive literary critic with a gift for the liveliest kind of polemics. This intellectual virtuosity is evident in these wide-ranging essays that include an exploration of C.L.R. James's writings on cricket, Bob Marley and the counter-cosmogony of the Rastafari, and the Spanish epoch of Jamaican history (including a pioneering examination of Bernado de Balbuena, epic poet and Abbot of Jamaica 1562-1627).Across this varied range of topics, a coherent and consistent thread of argument emerges from Wynter's oeuvre. In the vein of C. L. R. James, she placed the history of Spanish Jamaica (and therefore the Caribbean) in the context of the founding of the post-1492 European settler colonies in the New World, which remained an indispensable element in the first stage of the institutionalization of the Western world system. Therefore, a central imperative of her initial work has always been to reconceptualize the history of the region, and therefore of the modern world, but doing so, from a world-systemic perspective; that is, no longer from the normative perspective of the settler archipelago, but rather more inclusively, from those of the neo-serf (i.e. Indian) and that of ex-slave (i.e. Negro) archipelagos; this latter, as what she defines, adapting Enrique Dussel's terms, as the "gaze from below" perspective of "the ultimate underside of modernity." Strongly influenced by Marx together with Black thinkers such as Aimé Césaire, Jean Price-Mars (seen in the Jonkunnu essay), W. E. B. Du Bois and Frantz Fanon, and with an appreciation of the insights brought by the New Studies of the Sixties (including that of Black redemptive co-humanist thought, feminism), Wynter's work has sought, from its origin, to find a comprehensive explanatory system able to integrate these knowledges, ones born of struggle.This volume makes an important contribution to restoring to view an essential strand in the 500-year emergent thought generated from the slave/ex-slave archipelago of the Caribbean and the Americas--thought important to what our increasingly integrated world-system, the first such in human history.

Look At You by Amanda Smyth - a moving, sometimes shocking and sometimes funny account girl's growing up in a divided family, moving between Trinidad and England and realising a sense of self. Stylish, and emotionally vivid, this arresting book tackles the complexities of identity and perception.

A breathtakingly beautiful new collection from Ian McDonald - one of the Caribbean's leading poets, and now in his nineties.

This rich and wide-ranging anthology is the second in a series produced by the Peepal Tree/Inscribe Readers and Writers Group. Edited by Jacob Ross, the book contains work by previously published and debut writers.

The sixth collection of this profound dialogue between two major poets from opposite sides of the world takes on mortality. Provoked by near fatal accidents, family crisis, rising temperatures and forest fires in Western Australia, these poems confront the reality of death, and celebrate the arts of mortality in exquitite dialogue.

A politically astute coming-of-age novel set in Guyana in the turbulent late 1970s, where Kipling Plass and his teenage friends struggle for physical and emotional survival as they contend with the colonial past, racial animosity and Guyana's economic hardships. Heartbreaking, shocking, and lyrical.

Set on the eve of the First World War, the novel is told chiefly through the eyes of a travelling textile merchant, Jia Yun, who leaves Wuhan, China to join the great exodus of migrants fleeing poverty, most of them indentured to work in the canefields of Demerara, Guyana.

These Spanish-English poems focus on the island nature of Venezuela's Caribbean coast. Its rich observation of physical island-scapes is realised in imagery that strikes both with its freshness and rightness, and its speculative concern with the nature of islands in the Western imagination challenges us to new points of view.

Explore the contemporary issues that David Oluwale's story touches upon through poetry, prose and over 40 featured artworks and photographs.Themes of memory, belonging, otherness and optimisim are central to this uplifting book, which, although it refuses to deny the horrors of racism and brutality, also offers a glimpse of a better future.

This ground-breaking and lyrical first collection from Scottish Jamaican poet, Jeda Pearl, offers unique perspectives on race, disability, chronic illness, landscape and belonging.

Set in the period before and through the Bangladeshi war of independence, this novel has at its heart the continuing friendship between three boys with a love of cinema, whose loyalty into adulthood has surprising outcomes.

Volume 2 takes the story from the mid-1960s to the 1990s as Black British music grew beyond the work of arrivants, passers-through and isolated individuals to become a music of communities who were here to stay, who created a richly hybrid music from multiple sources and even began to influence the musics of the societies from which their parents came.

With contextualising essays by the editors, this collection of Seepersad Naipaul‿s journalism is a treasure trove of Trinidad‿s social history, particularly the making of the Indo-Trinidadian community. It is also a celebration of the talent of a writer whose turn of phrase makes the case for journalism as a art, and of Seepersad Naipaul as an outstanding intellectual.

These pioneering stories of Indian life in Trinidad includes Seepersad Naipaul‿s 1943 collection, Gurudeva and other Indian Tales in its original form and adds to it previously uncollected stories published in journals and broadcast on the Caribbean Voices programme, written between 1929 and 1953.

This poetry offers an empathetic sensitivity to human frailty, celebrations of the beauty of enduring love, anger in calling out injustices and a sense of the sacredness of the natural world and the terrible insults we offer it.

This collection of essays celebrates the SI Leeds Literary prize for unpublished fiction by black and Asian women writers. These are important words spoken by important women about the lives they have lived, their experiences, and all the things they've really wanted to write about but have had trouble getting commissioned.

Incisive social and political concerns are matched by her meticulous care with the shape of each poem and the architecture of this collection, where individual poems are enriched by their place in the whole and their dialogue with each other.

Colonial Countryside is a book of commissioned poems and short stories produced by ten global majority writers featuring National Trust houses with significant colonial histories.

This debut collection deals boldly with the fragilities of life, and linking the whole is an engagement with the possibilities of healing.

Through a mix of fictive narrative, letters and poetry, Ocean Stirrings tells the story of the mother of Malcolm X. From the shores of Grenada to the bustling streets of New York City, this is a powerful and poignant tribute to a remarkable woman and an important chapter in the history of the civil rights movement.

Goodbye Bay is simply one of the very best Caribbean novels to have been written, and not just in recent years. The perfect summer read, its seamless mix of sharply observed realism, poetic intensity and warm humour tells a gripping story with room for surprise, humour, tragedy and redemption.

A Poetry Book Society Recommendation, Adam Lowe's debut collection takes us on a journey rich in observation and always in a poetry that makes an art of patterflash.

This collection is a call to arms that opens out the struggle for human survival in the epoch of the Anthropocene to remind us that this began not just in the factories of Europe but in the holds of the slave ships and plantations of the Caribbean. No natural world was more changed than the West Indian islands by sugar monoculture - and as the title poem begins: "At the end of this sentence, a flood will rise/ and swallow low-lying islands of the Caribbean". Historically, "the debris of empire that crowd our shores" connects to the "sands of our beaches / littered with masks and plastic bottles." Philp's powerful and elegant poems that span past and present make it very clear that there cannot be a moral response to the climate crisis that is not also embedded in the struggle for social justice, for overcoming the malignancies of empire and colonialism and against the power of global capitalism -the missions of the West that had and have at their heart the ideology of white supremacy. These are poems of wit and anger, but also of personal intimacy - the vexed relationship with a violent father - and line after line of the shapeliest poetry - in sound, in rhythm and the exact choice of word.

The publication of Jonathan Cohen's translation of Poemas de buen amor... y a veces de fantasia, by the great national poet of the Dominican Republic, and an unquestionably major Caribbean poet, Pedro Mir, shows another side entirely of Mir's work: the sensual and erotic.

When the Trinidadian novelist, Harold Sonny Ladoo was found dead soon after the publication of his classic novel, No Pain Like This Body, for Christopher Laird, it became an obsession to try to discover the writer behind the work and what had brought about his untimely end. Equal to Mystery - words written by Ladoo - is the record of that pursuit.

"An unrivalled and often witty account of the Caribbean Voices and West African Voices programmes and the writing personalities involved in the crucial 1950s period." - DAVID DABYDEEN

As he enters his nineties, the poet's world has become, increasingly, his house and garden, his wife, children and grandchildren, a world experienced as no less rich than anything in the past - indeed ever more precious for its evanescence.

In this narrative rooted in soil and spread by whispers, Nii Ayikwei Parkes brings a metaphor of resource-rich countries to vivid life in prose peppered with nods to fairy tales, twentieth century music biographies, and politics headlines, asking the question: what is the price we pay to have a place to call home?

J. Vijay Maharaj invents the hidden life of Leila Ramsumair, the mostly silent wife of the Ganesh Ramsumair, the protagonist of V.S. Naipaul's satire on Trinidadian Hinduism, The Mystic Masseur.