Island Links

Caribbean Round Up Links

Check out the reading list for a Caribbean Lit class at Pittsburg State University.http://faculty.pittstate.edu/~knichols/cariblit2.html

Here are some websites with stories from the Bahamas for kids.

 Some people and topics to look into.  I included some links but you might also find them on Google, Wikipedia and YouTube:

 Linton Kwesi Johnson

 LKJ performs If I Woz A Tap Natch Poet http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm1jkaVztqY

 

Olive Senior

http://jamaica.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=455

http://literaturealive.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=55

http://www.sentinelpoetry.org.uk/0106/olive_senior.htm

 

Derek Wolcott

http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/220

http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/poetry/walcott_derek.html

  

Lillian Allen http://www.griots.net/archives/Allen/

  

Matubaruka http://www.mutabaruka.com/

Marcus Garvey http://www.africawithin.com/garvey/garvey_poetry.htm#med

 

 

Dub Poetry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dub_poetry

 

Literature Alive’s Caribbean Resources

 

Post Colonial Lit.—Caribbean Resources:

http://www.postcolonialweb.org/caribbean/related.html

  

The English Dept. at the University of Puerto Rico

http://humanidades.uprrp.edu/ingles/students/resources/resources-carib.htm

 

Poetry International Web

http://international.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_name=international&x=1

Movies about making presentations

Caribbean Page at Post Colonial Web

A Caribbean History Page  (not sure how reliable yet)

CIA Factbook

British History Archives: Caribbean Histories Revealed

History Today Magazine's Caribbean Articles

History Today Magazine