| Spring 1990 |
Focus on Canon Formation |
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| Susheila Nasta and Lyn Innes |
Editorial Note |
2 |
| Jane Bryce |
Commonwealth Literature: 25 Years |
3 |
| Anne Walmsley |
From ‘Nature’ to ‘Roots’: School Anthologies and a Caribbean Canon |
4 |
| Carolyn Cooper |
Words Unbroken by the Beat: The Performance Poetry of Jean Binta Breeze and Mikey Smith |
7 |
| Bernth Lindfors |
The Teaching of African Literature in Anglophone African Universities: An Instructive Canon |
13 |
| Robert Bush |
GCSE and Multicultural Literature |
16 |
| Nayantara Sahgal |
The Schizophrenic Imagination |
17 |
| Denise deCaires Narain |
Interviews Lorna Goodison |
20 |
| William Tanifeani |
Interviews Valerie Belgrave: novelist, visual artist |
24 |
| Marlene Nourbese Philip |
Short Story: Bad Words |
26 |
| Lorna Goodison |
About Almonds and Ambergris and other poems |
29 |
| O R Dathorne |
Poem: Dialogue in a Gutter |
29 |
| Gerald Noonan |
Poem: At an Afro-Caribbean Conference |
30 |
| Marlene Nourbese Philip |
Poem: From ‘And Over Every Land and Sea’ |
30 |
| Reviews |
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| Denise deCaires Narain |
Bones by Mahadai Das |
32 |
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Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Woman by Grace Nichols |
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| Imogen Forster |
Her True-True Name: An Anthology of Women’s Writing from the Caribbean Pamela Mordecai and Betty Wilson, eds |
33 |
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Considering Woman by Velma Pollard |
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Crown Point and Other Poems by Velma Pollard |
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| Fred D’Aguiar |
Lugard’s Bridge by Stewart Brown |
34 |
| Louis James |
Voiceprint: An Anthology of Oral and Related Poetry from the Caribbean Stewart Brown, Mervyn Morris and Gordon Rohlehr, eds |
35 |
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Hinterland: Caribbean Poetry from the West Indies and Britain E A Markham, ed |
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| C Hayball |
Raj by Gita Mehta |
35 |
| Maxine Beahan |
Chain of Fire by Beverley Naidoo |
36 |
| Alison Archer |
Myal by Erna Brodber |
37 |
| S J Wiseman |
Harriet’s Daughter by Marlene Nourbese Philip |
38 |
| C L Innes |
Ti Marie by Valerie Belgrave |
38 |
| Delia Jarrett-Macaulay |
NoBlack Sparrows by Namba Roy |
39 |
| Julia Swindells |
Dialogues and Difference: English Into the Nineties
Peter Brooker and Peter Humm, eds |
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| Books Received |
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41 |
| Robin Dizard |
Report on ACLALS’ Silver Jubilee Conference |
41 |
| Notes on Contributors |
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44 |
