General information on and from the Caribbean:

• "The West Indies" (Encyclopedia Britannica Online — HSU users only)
• "Caribbean" (Wikipedia)
• Map of the Caribbean region
• CaribbeanNews.com (a clearinghouse site with links to over 20 regional papers, including:)
  • The (Kingston) Jamaica Gleaner
  • The (Port-of-Spain) Daily Express
  • The (Port-of-Spain) Trinidad and Tobago Guardian
• Caribbean Radio: Links to live streaming audio from radio stations across the Caribbean (CaribbeanNews.com)
• The South Asian Diaspora page at UC-Berkeley (includes maps, historical documents & essays, and other resources devoted to South Asians in the Caribbean)
• Caribbean Immigration (part of the Schomburg Center's In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience) focuses largely but not exclusively on Caribbean migration to the U.S. (see also "Caribbean Immigrants in the United States" [Migration Policy Institute] and "West Indian American" [Wikipedia]), while the Caribbean Timeline and Caribbean Migration pages of the National Archives' Moving Here: Migration Histories website focuses on Caribbean migration to Britain
• The Caribbean Photo Archive (old photos, postcards, and stereoscopes from a private collector on Flickr)
• The Early Caribbean Digital Archive at Northeastern University (maps, engravings, slave and planters' narratives, and other historical documents)

Information on individual countries in the Caribbean:

• Encyclopedia Britannica Online World Atlas (on-campus access only)
• The CIA World Factbook (brought to you by everyone's favorite spooks)

Caribbean Literature, Language, and Culture
General:

• The Caribbean, part of George Landow's "Postcolonial and Postimperial Literatures" site at the National University of Singapore
• Rita Raley's excellent Caribbean Literature course homepage at UCSB includes a good map, excellent epigraphs, and loads of links (many to full-text documents)
• Writers of the Caribbean (Cherhonda N. Murchison, East Carolina U): biographies, bibliographies and links
• Emory University's Postcolonial Studies site includes bio-bibliographical info on many Caribbean writers
• CaribbeanTales Worldwide is a prominent distributor of Caribbean films
• Jeremy Poynting talks with Nicholas Laughlin of Peepal Tree Press about "Writing Worth Keeping Alive" (Caribbean Review of Books)
• Reference:
  • Richard Allsopp's Dictionary of Caribbean English (in the HSU Library's Reference Section)
  • Online glossaries & dictionaries: Tankalanka (Trini Dictionary)| Rasta/Patois Dictionary | Wiktionary's Glossary of Trinidadian English
  • Alison Donnell and Sarah Lawson Welch's edited collection, The Routledge Reader in Caribbean Literature (on reserve under Engl 240)
  • Browse the HSU library's 3d Floor stacks between roughly PR 9205 and PR 9275

Theory and Criticism:

• Selwyn Cudjoe, "Identity and Caribbean Literature" (lecture)
• Créolité (Wikipedia)
• "Caribbean Theory and Criticism" in the Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism (HSU users only)
• A round table discussion with Caribbean writers:  Ray Suarez talks with Jamaica Kincaid, Edwidge Danticat and Enrique Fernandez on NPR's radio program "Talk of the Nation," March 4, 1997 (RealAudio file)

Journals, Weblogs, and Magazines:

• Repeating Islands, Lisa Paravisini-Gebert and Ivette Romeo-Cesareo's excellent blog aggregates "News and commentary on Caribbean culture, literature, and the arts" daily
• Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal (University of Miami)
• Callaloo focuses frequently on Caribbean writers; it is available to HSU users through the JSTOR (1976-1994) and Project Muse (1995- ) databases
• Caribbean Beat is a bi-monthly arts & culture magazine published in association with Caribbean Airlines
• The Caribbean Review of Books also appears online bi-monthly
• The Caribbean Writer (University of the Virgin Islands): more recent volumes contain full-text online articles, stories and poems
• Small Axe: A Caribbean Platform of Criticism (Duke UP) also maintains the online "sx salon"
• Transition often includes work by and about Caribbean writers; it is available to HSU users through the JSTOR (1961-1999) and Project Muse (2000- ) online electronic databases

Sites related to authors or works that we're studying in this class:

• See the Course Reader page