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ATCAL (the acronym originally stood for the Association for the Teaching of African and Caribbean Literature, [4] but was soon extended to include Asian material) was founded by past members of the Caribbean Artists Movement at a conference at the University of Kent in 1978, [5] and was inaugurated in 1979, its first meeting — entitled "How to Teach Caribbean and African Literature in ...
Cynthia James was born in Sangre Grande, Trinidad and Tobago, in 1948.She was raised in Salybia, a village on the coast, and her parents were both teachers. [1] [2]James attended St. George's College in Barataria, and then in 1969 she obtained a bachelor's degree in French, Spanish, and English from the University of the West Indies at St. Augustine.
The literature of Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Curaçao, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Montserrat, Saint Martin, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos and the U.S. Virgin Islands would normally be considered to belong to the ...
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Françoise Ega (11 November 1920 – 8 March 1976) was an Afro-Martinican laborer, writer and social activist. She was most noted in her lifetime for her community leadership and advocacy for Caribbean migrants to France.
Mervyn Eustace Morris OM (born 21 February 1937) [1] is a poet, writer, editor and professor emeritus at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica.His poetry is well respected throughout the Caribbean, which has consistently ranked him among the top West Indian poets.
Born in Kingston, Jamaica, she attended high school in Jamaica, and Newton College of the Sacred Heart in Newton, MA, where she did a first degree in English.A trained language-arts teacher with a PhD in English from the University of the West Indies, [1] she has taught at secondary and tertiary levels, trained teachers, edited an academic journal, and worked in media, especially television ...
Helen Pyne-Timothy (1937 – 2015) [1] was a Jamaican feminist literary critic and academic, who was a founder and the inaugural president of the Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars (ACWWS), a contributing editor of the journal MaComère, and the author of the 1998 book The Woman, the Writer and Caribbean Society.