Autumn 1986

Caribbean Focus Issue

Susheila Nasta

Editorial Note

2

Anne Walmsley

Editorial: The Caribbean Artists Movement 1967-72: Its Inauguration and Significance (research in progress)

3

Samuel Selvon

Three into One Can’t Go — East Indian, Trinidadian or West Indian?

8

Joyce Johnson

Finding a Literary Medium: Jean D’Costa’s Novels for Children

12

Jeremy Poynting

African-Indian Relations in Caribbean Fiction: A Reply to A Froude (‘The African and the Asiatic will not Mix’)

15

Fred D’Aguiar

Interviews Wilson Harris

22

Louis James

Dark Muse: The early fiction of A K Heath

26

Faustin Charles

Short Story: The Lagarhoo

28

E A Markham

Short Story: The Pig was Mine

30

Jan Shinebourne

The Maid in Bel Air

33

Valerie Bloom

Tables and other poems

35

Mario Rellich

Carnival and Guyana Quartet by Wilson Harris

36

Abdulrazak Gurnah

Longman Caribbean Writers

39

Ian Watts

The Black Triangle by Armet Francis

40

Philip Nanton

Plays For Today , Errol Hill, ed

41

Faustin Charles

This Island Now by Peter Abrahams

42

Imogen Forster

Reading into Racism: Bias in Children’s Literature and Learning Materials by Gillian Klein

43

Douglas Bloom

Best West Indian Stories by Kenneth Ramchand

44

Perspectives and Wavelengths by Cecil Gray

An Introduction to the Study of West Indian Literature by Kenneth Ramchand

Books Received

46

Activities, Contributors

47