New World Adams: Interviews with West Indian Writers - Softcover

Daryl Cumber Dance

Softcover

ISBN 10: 190071504X ISBN 13: 9781900715041

Publisher: Peepal Tree Press, 2008

Synopsis

In these interviews, held in the early 1980s, with twenty-two of the major writers of the English-speaking Caribbean, Daryl Dance brings together what is much more than just a valuable source book for readers of West Indian writing. The interviews are highly readable - by turns probing, combative and reflective and always absorbing. Daryl Dance brings to the interviews a rare breadth of knowledge and empathy with the work of the writers interviewed and the openly avowed insights of an African-American woman.

The writers interviewed include Michael Anthony, Louise Bennett, Jan Carew, Martin Carter and Denis Williams, Austin Clarke, Wilson Harris, John Hearne, C.L.R. James, Ismith Khan, George Lamming, Earl Lovelace, Tony McNeill, Pam Mordecai and Velma Pollard, Mervyn Morris, Orlando Patterson, Vic Reid, Dennis Scott, Sam Selvon, Michael Thelwell, Derek Walcott and Sylvia Wynter.

This second edition contains updated bibliographies for all the writers.

Daryl Dance is Professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond.

About this title

About the Author

Daryl C. Dance is a professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. She is the recipient of Ford Foundation Fellowships and a Fulbright research grant. She is the author of Fifty Caribbean Writers, which was named as the outstanding reference book of 1986 by Library Journal; Folklore from Contemporary Jamaicans; Honey, Hush!; Long Gone; and Shuckin' and Jivin'.

Edition details

• Publisher: Peepal Tree Press
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 190071504X
• ISBN 13: 9781900715041
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 340