For Further Study

Literature

Brathwaite, Kamau. The Arrivants.

Brodber, Erna. Myal.

Carew, Jan. Black Midas.

---------------. The Wild Coast.

Carpentier, Alejo. The Kingdom of this World.

Danticat, Edwidge. Krik? Krak!

De Lisser, H. G. The White Witch of Rose Hall.

Depestre, Rene. A Rainbow for the Christian West.

Edgell, Zee. Beka Lamb.

Emtage, J.B. Brown Sugar.

Kahn, Ismith. The Obeah Man.

Kincaid, Jamaica. At the Bottom of the River.

Lamming, George. Season of Adventure.

Lovelace, Earl. The Dragon Can’t Dance.

Metellus, Jean. The Vortex Family.

Naipaul, V.S. A House for Mr. Biswas.

Rhodes, Jewell P. Voodoo Dreams: A Novel of Marie Laveau.

Roumain, Jacques. Masters of the Dew.

Schwarz-Bart, Simone. The Bridge of Beyond.

Walcott, Derek. Omeros.

Criticism and Theory

Akilli, Sinan. “The Matrix of Pagan African, Judeo-Christian, and Rastafarian Elements in Derek Walcott’s Dream on Monkey Mountain.” The Aegean Journal of Language and Literature

13:1. 2004. 1-12.

Bécel, Pascale. “Moi, Tituba Sociere…Noire de Salem as a Tale of Petite Marronne.” Callaloo 18:3. 1995. 608-615.

Bellegrade-Smith, Patrick (ed). Fragments of Bone: Neo-African Religions in a New World. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. 2005.

Bisnauth, D.A. History of Religions in the Caribbean. Trenton: Africa World Press, Inc. 1996.

Brathwaite, Kamau. The Development of a Creole Society in Jamaica, 1770-1820. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1971.

Braziel, Jana Evans. “Jamaica Kincaid’s ‘In the Night’: Jablesse, Obeah, and Diasporic Alterrains in ‘At the Bottom of the River.’”

Journal x: A Journal in Culture and Criticism 6:1. 2001 (Autumn). 79-104.

Burton, Richard D. E. Afro-Creole: Power, Opposition, and Play in the Caribbean. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 1997.

Cabrera, Lydia. “Religious Syncretism in Cuba.” Journal of Caribbean Studies 10:1-2. 1995. 84-94.

Carchidi, Victoria. “’Heaven is a Green Place’: Varieties of Spiritual Landscape in Caribbean Literature.” Mapping the Sacred:

Religion, Geography, and Postcolonial Liteartures. Jamie S. Scott and Paul Simpson Housely ed. Amsterdam, Netherlands:

Rodopi. 2001. 179-97.

Cary, Norman. “Religion and the West Indian Novel.” Commonwealth Essays and Studies 10:2. 1998. 98-106.

Chrisitanse, Yvette. “Monstrous Prodigy: the Apocalyptic Landscapes of Derek Walcott’s Poetry.” Mapping the Sacred: Religion,

Geography, and Postcolonial Liteartures. Jamie S. Scott and Paul Simpson Housely ed. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Rodopi. 2001.

199-224.

Compton, Wayde. “Culture at the Crossroads: Voodoo Aesthetics and the Axis of Blackness in the Literature of the Black

Diaspora.” Matatu: Journal for African Culture and Society 27-28. 2003. 481-513.

Corzani, Jack. “West Indian Mythology and Its Literary Allusions.” Research in African Literatures 25:2. 1994. 131-139.

Davis, Wade. The Serpent and the Rainbow. New York: Simon and Schuster. 1985.

Deslauriers, Pierre. “African Magico-Medicine at Home and Abroad: Haitian Religious Traditions in a Neocolonial Setting; The

Fiction of Dany Laferriere.” Mapping the Sacred: Religion, Geography, and Postcolonial Liteartures. Jamie S. Scott and Paul

Simpson Housely ed. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Rodopi. 2001. 337-354.

Edmondson, Belinda. “Race, Privilege, and the Politics of (Re)writing History: An Analysis of the Novels of Michelle Cliff.” Callaloo

16:1. 1993. 180-91.

Fernandez-Omos Margarite and Lizbeth Paravisini-Gerbert. Creole Religions in the Caribbean: An Introduction from Vodou and Santería

to Obeah and Espiritismo. New York: New York University Press. 2003.

Fernandez-Omos Margarite and Lizbeth Paravisini-Gerbert (eds). Sacred Possessions: Vodou, Santería, Obeah, and the Caribbean. New

Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. 1997.

---------------. Healing Cultures: Art and Religion as Curative Practices in the Caribbean and Its Diaspora. New York: Palgrave. 2001.

Flockemann, Miki. “Breakdown or Breakthrough? The Madness of Resistance in Wide Sargasso Sea and A Question of Power.

MaComère: Journal of the Association of Women Writers and Scholars 2. 1999. 65-79.

Forde, Maarit. “’Comin’ All the Way from Africa Land’: The Global Cosmology of a Local Religion.” Bridges Across Chasms:

Towards a Transcultural Future in Caribbean Literature. Benedicte Ledent (ed). Belgium: Université de Liège. 2004. 233-244.

Fumagalli, Maria. “Maryse Condé’s La Migration des Couers, Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea, and (the Possibility of) Creolization.”

Journal of Caribbean Literatures 3:2. 2002. 65-87.

Gering, August. “The Celtic Creole in Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea.” Jean Rhys Review 11:1. 1999. 35-61.

Greenfield, Sidney M. and André Droogers (eds). Reinventing Religions: Syncretism and Transformation in Africa and the Americas.

Oxford: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc. 2001.

Hemchand, Gossai and Nathaniel Samuel Murrell (eds). Religion, Culture, and Tradition in the Caribbean. New York: St. Martin’s

Press. 2000.

Hickman, Trenton. “The Colonized Woman as Monster in Jane Eyre, Wide Sargasso Sea, and Annie John.” Journal of Caribbean Studies

14:3. 2000. 181-198.

Hogan, Patrick Colm. “Mimeticism, Reactionary Nativism, and the Possibility of Postcolonial Identity in Derek Walcott’s Dream on

Monkey Mountain.” Research in African Literatures 25:2. 1994. 103-119.

Khair, Tabish. “Correct(ing) Images from the Inside: Reading the Limits of Erna Brodber’s Myal.” The Journal fo Commonwealth

Literature 37:1. 2002. 121-131.

Maurel, Sylvie. “Across the ‘Wide Sargasso Sea’: Jean Rhys’s Revision of Charlotte Brontë’s Eurocentric Gothic.” Commonwealth

Essays and Studies 24:2. 2002. 107-118.

Moore, Brain L. and Michele A Johnson. Neither Led nor Driven: Contesting British Cultural Imperialism in Jamaica, 1865-1920.

Kingston: University of West Indies Press. 2004.

Ngugi, Wa Thiong’O. Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature. London: James Currey, Ltd. 1986.

Patrick, Peter L. “Recent Jamiacan Words in Sociolinguistic Context.” American Speech: 70:3. 1995. 227-264.

Pettinger, Alasdair. “From Vaudoux to Voodoo.” Forum for Modern Language Studies 40:4. 2004. 415-425.

Powell, Joan Miller. “The Conflict of Becoming: Cultural Hybridity and the representation of Focalization in Caribbean Literature.”

Literature and Psychology 45:1-2. 1999. 63-93.

Pradel, Lucie. African Beliefs in the New World: Popular Literary Traditions in the Caribbean. Trenton: Africa World Press, Inc. 2000.

Roberts, June E. Reading Erna Brodber: Uniting the Black Diaspora through Folk Culture and Religion. Connecticut: Praeger. 2006.

Rodriguez-Mangual, Edna. “Santería and the Quest for a Postcolonial Identity in Post-revolutionary Cuban Cinema.” Representing

Religion in World Cinema: Filmmaking, Mythmaking, Culture Making. S. Brent Plate ed. New York: Palgrave MacMillan. 2003.

219-37.

Said, Edward. Orientalism. New York: Random House. 2003(1978).

Simpson, George E. Religious Cults of the Caribbean: Trinidad, Jamaica, and Haiti. Puerto Rico: University of Puerto Rico, Institute of

Caribbean Studies. 1970(1965).

Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. “Three Women’s Texts and a Critique of Imperialism.” Critical Inquiry 12:1. 1985. 243-261.

Su, John J. “’Once I Would Have Gone Back…But Not Any Longer’: Nostalgia and Narrative Ethics in Wide Sargasso Sea.” Critique:

Studies in Contemporary Fiction 44:2. 2003. 157-174.

Teish, Luisah. “Women’s Spirituality: A Household Act.” Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology. Barbara Smith (ed). New

Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. 2000(1993).

Taylor, Patrick (ed). Nation Dance: Religion, Identity, and Cultural Difference in the Caribbean. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

2001.