Table of Contents

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Introduction by Earl Lovelace

PART I: Leaving Colonialism

La Divina Pastora

by C.L.R. James

North Trace

(Originally published in 1927)

The Cricket Match

by Samuel Selvon

London, UK

(Originally published in 1957)

Homestead

by Eric Roach

Mount Pleasant, Tobago

(Originally published in 1953)

Man-man

by V.S. Naipaul

Blue Basin

(Originally published in 1959)

The Valley of Cocoa

by Michael Anthony

Mayaro

(Originally published in 1961)

PART II: Facing Independence

The Quiet Peasant

by Harold Sonny Ladoo

Tola

(Originally published in 1973)

The Schooner Flight

by Derek Walcott

Blanchisseuse

(Originally published in 1979)

Malgrétoute

by Lawrence Scott

Malgrétoute

(Originally published in 1987)

Assam’s Iron Chest

by Willi Chen

Mayaro

(Originally published in 1988)

Joebell and America

by Earl Lovelace

Cunaripo

(Originally published in 1988)

PART III: Looking In

Hindsight

by Robert Antoni

San Fernando

(Originally published in 1992)

Uncle Zoltan

by Ismith Khan

Central Market, Port of Spain

(Originally published in 1994)

Town of Tears

by Elizabeth Nunez

Laventille

(Originally published in 2000)

The Vagrant at the Gate

by Wayne Brown

Woodbrook

(Originally published in 2000)

PART IV: Losing Control

Songster

by Jennifer Rahim

North Coast

(Originally published in 2002)

The Party

by Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw

Santa Cruz Valley

(Originally published in 2007)

Ghost Story

by Barbara Jenkins

Cascade

(Originally published in 2012)

The Dragonfly’s Tale

by Sharon Millar

Northern Range

(Originally published in 2013)

The Bonnaire Silk Cotton Tree

by Shani Mootoo

Foothills, Northern Range

(Originally published in 2015)

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