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Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint the stories, excerpts, and poems in this anthology. “La Divina Pastora” by C.L.R. James was originally published in the Saturday Review, October 15, 1927, reproduced with permission of Curtis Brown Group Ltd., London, on behalf of the Estate of C.L.R. James, copyright © the Estate of C.L.R. James; “The Cricket Match” by Samuel Selvon was originally published in Ways of Sunlight (London, England: MacGibbon & Kee, 1957), copyright © 1957 by Samuel Selvon; “Homestead” by Eric Roach was originally published in Caribbean Quarterly 2, no. 3 (1953), copyright © 1953 by Eric Roach; “Man-man” by V.S. Naipaul was originally published in Miguel Street (London, England: André Deutsch, 1959), copyright © 1959, copyright renewed 1987 by V.S. Naipaul, used by permission of the Wylie Agency LLC; “The Quiet Peasant” by Harold Sonny Ladoo was originally published in Impulse 2, nos. 3 and 4 (1973), ed. Peter Such, copyright © 1973 by Harold Sonny Ladoo, licensed here from House of Anansi Press; “The Valley of Cocoa” by Michael Anthony was originally published in Bim 9, no. 33 (July–December 1961), copyright © 1961 by Michael Anthony; “The Schooner Flight” by Derek Walcott was originally published in The Star-Apple Kingdom (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1979), copyright © 1979 by Derek Walcott; “Assam’s Iron Chest” by Willi Chen was originally published in King of the Carnival and Other Stories (London, England: Hansib, 1988), copyright © 1988 by Willi Chen; “Joebell and America” by Earl Lovelace was originally published in A Brief Conversation and Other Stories (London: Heinemann, 1988), copyright © 1988 by Earl Lovelace; “Hindsight” (excerpt) by Robert Antoni was originally published in Divina Trace, copyright © 1991 by Robert Antoni, published in 1992 by the Overlook Press, New York, NY, www.overlookpress.com, all rights reserved; “Town of Tears” (excerpt) by Elizabeth Nunez was originally published in Bruised Hibiscus, copyright © 2000, reprinted by permission of Seal Press, a member of the Perseus Book Group; “Uncle Zoltan” by Ismith Khan was originally published in A Day in the Country and Other Stories (Leeds, England: Peepal Tree Press, 1994), copyright © 1994 by Ismith Khan; “Malgrétoute” by Lawrence Scott was originally published in Chelsea 46: World Literature in English, ed. Sonia Raiziss (New York: Chelsea Associates, 1987), copyright © 1987 by Lawrence Scott; “The Vagrant at the Gate” by Wayne Brown was first published in 2000, licensed here from The Scent of the Past: Stories and Remembrances (Leeds, England: Peepal Tree Press, 2011); “Songster” by Jennifer Rahim was originally published in Small Axe 11 (March 2002), copyright © 2002 by Jennifer Rahim; “The Party” by Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw was originally published in Four Taxis Facing North (Hexham, England: Flambard Press, 2007), copyright © 2007 by Elizabeth Walcott Hackshaw; “The Dragonfly’s Tale” by Sharon Millar was originally published in Small Axe 41 (July 2013), copyright © 2013 by Sharon Millar, licensed here from The Whale House and Other Stories by Sharon Millar (Leeds, England: Peepal Tree Press, 2015); “Ghost Story” by Barbara Jenkins was originally published in Small Axe 38 (July 2012), copyright © 2012 by Barbara Jenkins, licensed here from Sic Transit Wagon and Other Stories by Barbara Jenkins (Leeds, England: Peepal Tree Press, 2013); “The Bonnaire Silk Cotton Tree” by Shani Mootoo was originally published in The Haunted Tropics: Caribbean Ghost Stories, ed. Martin Munro (University of the West Indies Press, 2015), copyright © 2015 by Shani Mootoo.

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