Introduction 1
绪论:西印度和加勒比英语文学 25
1.John Agard 51
Go Spread Wings 51
Stereotype 52
2.Michael Anthony 54
The Patch of Guava 54
3.William Arthur 61
Negro Lass 61
4.Edward Baugh 63
Nigger Sweat 63
5.Louise Bennett 66
Jamaica Elevate 66
Colonization in Reverse 70
6.James Berry 73
Thinking Back on Yard Time 73
7.Edward Brathwaite 75
Tom 75
Folkways 79
Islands 82
Sun Poem 84
8.George Campbell 86
History Makers 86
Holy 87
9.Hugh Carberry 88
Nature 88
A Mountain Carved by Bronze 89
10.Jan Carew 92
Our Home 92
11.Martin Carter 94
I Come from the Nigger Yard 94
12.Frank Collymore 95
Triptych 95
Hymn to the Sea 97
13.Frederick D'Aguiar 100
Letter to England 100
14.Neville Dawes 102
To an African girl 102
15.John Figueroa 104
At Home the Green Remains 104
16.Lorna Goodison 106
For My Mother 106
I Am Becoming My Mother 111
This Is a Hymn 112
New York Is a Subway Stop 113
17.Wilson Harris 117
Guyana Quartet 117
18.Merle Hodge 130
Crick Crack Monkey 130
19.Clyde Hosein 139
The Signature 139
20.C.L.R.James 144
The Black Jacobins 144
21.Evan Jones 159
The song of the banana man 159
22.Cyril Kanhai 163
The New Land 163
23.Ismith Khan 165
The Jumbie Bird 165
24.George Lamming 177
In the Castle of My Skin 177
25.Earl Lovelace 192
The Dragon Can't Dance 192
26.Roger Mais 213
Red Dirt Don't Wash 213
27.Una Marson 226
Darlingford 226
28.Ian McDonald 229
The Humming-Bird Tree 229
29.Claude McKay 247
Like a Strong Tree 247
30.Edgar Mittelholzer 249
A Morning at the Office 249
31.Mervyn Morris 264
The Pond 264
32.V.S.Naipaul 266
A House for Mr Biswas 266
The Middle Passage 294
33.Victor Reid 321
New Day 321
34.Jean Rhys 331
Wide Sargasso Sea 331
35.Andrew Salkey 346
Dry River Bed 346
36.Samuel Selvon 349
Cane Is Bitter 349
The Lonely Londoners 365
Turn Again Tiger 372
37.Olive Senior 386
The Boy Who Loved Ice Cream 386
38.A.J.Seymour 405
For Christopher Columbus 405
39.Philip Sherlock 407
Jamaican Fisherman 407
40.Janice Shinebourne 409
The Bridge 409
41.Francisco Slinger 412
Capitalism Gone Mad 412
42.Derek Walcott 417
A Far Cry from Africa 418
The Glory Trumpeter 420
Air 422
Sea Grapes 424
Sainte Lucie:the Villages 426
Bibliography 428