Lecturer in charge: Dr. Michael Bucknor

Rm. 50 (New Arts Block)

An introduction to the range of West Indian poetry in English.

Level: II

Credits: 3

Prerequisite: LITS 1001 (E10A)

Instruction: 2 lectures, 1 tutorial per week

Evaluation: 2 coursework essays 40%

Final 2-hour examination (2 answers) 60%

Prescribed Texts:

  •  Baugh, Edward. It Was the Singing (Sandberry Press pb)
•  Brand, Dionne. No Language is Neutral (McClelland & Stewart pb)
•  Brathwaite, Kamau Edward. The Arrivants (Islands) (Oxford Univ. Press pb)
•  Collins, Merle. Lady in a Boat (Peepal Tree Press pb)
•  Johnson, Linton Kwesi. Mi Revalueshanary Fren: Selected Poems (Penguin pb)
•  Nichols, Grace. I Is A Long Memoried Woman (Karnak House pb)

Highly Recommended Texts:

•  Breiner, Laurence. An Introduction to West Indian Poetry (Cambridge Univ. Press pb)
•  Chamberlin, J. Edward. Come Back to Me My Language (Ian Randle pb)