Your 'fav' Caribbean Novelist(s)

Which Caribbean novelist would you like to meet and have a conversation with if you had the chance, and why?  S/he doesn't have to be on the list of authors we're studying this semester for LITS 2508.   If the person is no longer living, you can still let us know if you would have liked to have met him/her.   And if you have more than one choice, that's fine too.

Michael Anthony's Class Visit

Wasn't Michael Anthony's visit to our LITS 2508 class last week special and memorable?  Having read one of his novels (The Year in San Fernando), and taught another (Green Days by the River) as well as two of his short stories ("Peeta of the Deep Sea" and "They Better Don't Stop the Carnival"), it was a delight for me to hear him talk about his craft and philosophy as a writer in his own words.   It's always special to meet and talk with authors of books we've read for leisure or study.  

It was intriguing to hear him talk about his interaction with other West Indian authors we've read and are now studying who belong to that successful group of writers who were in England in the 1950s and 1960s.   Interesting, too, were his own affirmations about the intentions and responsibilities of a writer - what he had to say was unexpected wasn't it?  But, perhaps not, because critics like Edward Baugh have observed that quality (to which Anthony attests) in his work.  We'll talk more about that in class.

Tell me what you think of this author's visit, how it impacted you, and what are some of the things he said that are for you the most memorable.

What do you think so far about the West Indian novel?

Welcome to our academic blog!  Join the class discussions whenever and as often as you can.  You can comment using your first name only, since we know each other fairly well by now.

I really fell in love with and had more appreciation for West Indian literature when I studied short narratives (the short story) as a UWI undergraduate student.    I'm sure you remember the questionnaire you filled out at the beginning of the course; now that we have just two more novels to go as we study West Indian prose fiction this semester, what thoughts do you have so far as you read the selected texts, in comparison to what you've read previously - for study or for leisure - or are reading for other courses?  Let's do some blogging and share what we think with each other.