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Archipelago

These are the literatures of the sea between: between Africa, Europe, and the Americas, between languages, between the plantation and whatever comes after it. From Césaire's founding poem of Negritude to Chamoiseau's Martinique and Walcott's Homeric St. Lucia, writers across the Caribbean have been making something new out of everything the colonial world left behind: a literature that is creolised, layered, and alive to history in a way few traditions can match.

In the app a path keeps your place, marks what you have read, and hands you the next work when you are ready for it.

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The route

  • 1. Voyage In The DarkJean Rhys, 1934
  • 2. The Black JacobinsC.L.R. James, 1938
  • 3. Notebook of a Return to the Native LandAimé Césaire, 1939
  • 4. The Kingdom of This WorldAlejo Carpentier, 1949
  • 5. The Lonely LondonersSam Selvon, 1956
  • 6. Palace of the PeacockWilson Harris, 1960
  • 7. A House for Mr. BiswasV.S. Naipaul, 1961
  • 8. Wide Sargasso SeaJean Rhys, 1966
  • 9. Annie JohnJamaica Kincaid, 1985
  • 10. OmerosDerek Walcott, 1990
  • 11. TexacoPatrick Chamoiseau, 1992
  • 12. A Brief History of Seven KillingsMarlon James, 2014
  • 13. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar WaoJunot Diaz, 2007
  • 14. Explosion In A CathedralAlejo Carpentier, 1962
  • 15. Sóngoro cosongoNicolás Guillén, 1931
  • 16. How the Garcia Girls Lost Their AccentsJulia Alvarez, 1991