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Earl Lovelace: a Special Issue Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal Volume 4 Article 6 Issue 2 Earl Lovelace: A Special Issue December 2006 Earl Lovelace: Selected Bibliography Nadia Indra Johnson [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/anthurium Recommended Citation Johnson, Nadia Indra (2006) "Earl Lovelace: Selected Bibliography," Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal: Vol. 4 : Iss. 2 , Article 6. Available at: http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/anthurium/vol4/iss2/6 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by Scholarly Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal by an authorized editor of Scholarly Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Johnson: Earl Lovelace: Selected Bibliography Works Lovelace, Earl. “Calypso and the Bacchanal Connection.” Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal 3.2 (2005). 2 Jan 2007. http://scholar.library.miami.edu/anthurium/volume_3/issue_2/lovelace-calypso.htm —. Growing in the Dark: (Selected Essays). San Juan, Trinidad: Lexicon Trinidad Ltd., 2003. —. “Victory and the Blight.” The Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories. Ed. Stewart Brown and John Wickham. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1999. 228-34. —. “Fleurs.” The Faber Book of Contemporary Caribbean Short Stories. Ed. Mervyn Morris. London: Faber and Faber, 1990. 123-31. —. A Brief Conversion and Other Stories. Oxford: Heinemann, 1988. —. The Dragon Can’t Dance. 1979. London: Longman, 1986. —. The Wine of Astonishment. 1982. London: Heinemann, 1986. —. “Engaging the World.” Guest Editor. Wasafiri: Journal of Caribbean, African, Asian and Associated Literatures and Films 1 (1984): 3-4. —. Jestina’s Calypso & Other Plays. London: Heinemann, 1984. —. Salt. London: Faber & Faber, 196. —. While Gods Are Falling. 1965. Harlow: Longman, 1984. Interviews Lovelace, Earl. “Earl Lovelace.” Interview with Funso Aiyejina. Self-Portraits: Interviews with Ten West Indian Writers and Two Critics. Ed. Funso Aiyejina. St. Augustine: The University of the West Indies School of Continuing Studies, 2003. 1-22. —. “Conversation with Earl Lovelace.” Interview with Daryl C. Dance. New World Adams: Interviews with West Indian Writers. Leeds: Peepal Tree Press Ltd, 2004. (145-157). —. Interview with Patricia J. Saunders. “The Meeting Place of Creole Culture: A Conversation with Earl Lovelace.” Calabash: A Journal of Caribbean Arts and Letters 2.1 (2002): 10- 22. —. Interview with Questal, Victor. “Views of Earl Lovelace.” Caribbean Contact 5.3 (1997): 15-16. Published by Scholarly Repository, 2006 1 Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal, Vol. 4, Iss. 2 [2006], Art. 6 —. Interview with George Lamming. Caribbean Writer’s Summer Institute Archival Video Collection. Jul. 1992. 2 Jan 2007 http://scholar.library.miami.edu/cls/CWSIMainPage.php. [Direct Link to Video] —. Interview with Thomas, H. Nigel. “From ‘Freedom’ to ‘Liberation’: An Interview with Earl Lovelace.” World Literature Written in English 31.1 (1991): 8-20 —. “Interview: Earl Lovelace.” Interview with Maya Jaggi. Wasafiri: Journal of Caribbean, African, Asian and Associated Literatures and Film 12 (1990): 25-27. Film Lovelace, Asha and Earl Lovelace, co-writers. Joebell and America. Dir. Asha Lovelace. Caribbean Communications Network Six Point Production, 2005. Essays and Criticism Aiyejina, Funso. “African Possession Rituals in the Novels of Earl Lovelace.” Journal of African Roots. N.d. 2 Jan 2007.http://www.cislcaad.org/jar/Jar_Final/Aiyejina_lovelace.pdf —. “Unmasking the Chantwell Narrator in Earl Lovelace’s Fiction.” Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal 3.2 (2005). 2 Jan 2007. http://scholar.library.miami.edu/anthurium/volume_3/issue_2/aiyejina-unmasking.html —. “Finding the Darkness in Which to Grow: The Journey Towards a Bacchanal Aesthetics.” Introduction to Growing in the Dark: (Selected Essays). Ed. Funso Aiyejina. San Juan, Trinidad: Lexicon Trinidad, 2003. v-xx. —. “Novelypso: Indigenous Narrative Strategies in Earl Lovelace’s Fiction.” Trinidad and Tobago Review 22.7-8 (2000): 15-17. —. “Salt: A Complex Tapestry.” Trinidad and Tobago Review 18.10-12 (1996): 13-16. Barratt, Harold. “Metaphor and Symbol in The Dragon Can’t Dance.” World Literature Written in English 23.2 (1984): 405-13. —. “Michael Anthony and Earl Lovelace: The Search for Selfhood.” ACLALS Bulletin 5.3 (1980): 62-73. Brydon, Diana. “Trusting the Contradictions: Competing Ideologies in Earl Lovelace’s The Dragon Can’t Dance.” English Studies in Canada 15.3 (1989): 319-55. Cary, Norman Reed. “Salvation, Self, and Solidarity in the Work of Earl Lovelace.” World Literature Written in English 28.1 (1988): 103-14. http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/anthurium/vol4/iss2/6 2 Johnson: Earl Lovelace: Selected Bibliography Dance, Daryl Cumber. “‘Journey to an Expectation’: A Reflection and a Prayer.” Journal of Caribbean Literatures 1:1 (1997): 49-51. Dasenbrock, Reed Way. “Community and Culture.” International Literature in English: Essays on the Major Writers. Ed. Robert L. Ross. New York: Garland, 1991. 153-60. Davidson, Adenike Marie. “Spirituality and Black Manhood in Earl Lovelace’s The Wine of Astonishment and Michael Thelwell’s The Harder They Come.” In Process: A Graduate Student Journal of African-American and African Diaspora Literature and Culture 1 (1996): 74-90. Farred, Grant. “The Ellisonian Injunction: Discourse on a Lower Frequency.” Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism 16 (2004): 205-13. Frickey, Pierrette M. “Jamaica and Trinidad.” Post-Colonial English Drama: Commonwealth Drama since 1960. Ed. Bruce King. New York: St. Martin’s, 1992. 217-35. Gowda, H. H. Anniah. “A Brief Note on the Dialect Novels of Sam Selvon and Earl Lovelace.” Literary Half-Yearly 27.2 (1986): 98-103. Griffith, Glyne. “Struggling with a Structure: Gender, Agency, and Discourse.” The Culture of Gender and Sexuality in the Caribbean. Ed. Linden Lewis. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 2003. 275-93. Hamner, Robert D. “The Measure of the ‘Yard Novel’: From Mendes to Lovelace.” Commonwealth Essays and Studies 9:1 (1986): 98-105. Harney, Steve. “Nation Time: Earl Lovelace and Michael Anthony Nationfy Trinidad.” Commonwealth Essays and Studies 13.2 (1991): 31-41. Ilona, Anthony. “‘Laughing Through the Tears’: Mockery and self-representation in V.S. Naipaul’s A House for Mr. Biswas and Earl Lovelace’s The Dragon Can’t Dance.” Cheeky Fictions: Laughter and the Postcolonial. Ed. Susanne Reichl and Mark Stein. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2005. 43-60. James, Louis. “Making the Dragon Dance.” Wasafiri: Journal of Caribbean, African, Asian and Associated Literatures and Film 1 (1984): 13-15. —. “Writing the Ballad: The Short Fiction of Samuel Selvon and Earl Lovelace.” Telling Stories: Postcolonial Short Fiction in English. Ed. Jacqueline Bardolph. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2001. 103-108. Published by Scholarly Repository, 2006 3 Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal, Vol. 4, Iss. 2 [2006], Art. 6 Juneja, Renu. “Culture and Identity in Lovelace’s The Wine of Astonishment.” Imagination, Emblems, and Expressions: Essays on Latin America, Caribbean, and Continental Cultre and Identity. Ed. Helen Ryan-Ramson. Bowling Green: Bowling Green State U Popular P, 1993. 193-212. —. “Spirited Bodies in Earl Lovelace’s The Wine of Astonishment.” Reading the Social Body. Ed. Catherine B. Burroughs and Jeffrey David. Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 1993. 202-217. Kohn, James. “Narrators’ Polyphony in the Short Stories of Earl Lovelace.” Language and Literature 22 (1997): 119-26. Laitinen, Maarit. “Identity, Decolonization and Resistance in Earl Lovelace’s Salt.” Postcolonialism and Cultural Resistance. Eds. Jopi Nyman and John Stotesbury. Finland: Faculty of Humaninities, U of Joensuu, 1999. 130-5. Lewis, Linden. “Masculinity and the Dance of the Dragon: Reading Lovelace Discursively.” Feminist Review 59 (1998): 164-85. Nair, Supriya. “Diasporic Roots: Imagining a Nation in Earl Lovelace’s Salt.” The South Atlantic Quarterly 100.1 (Winter 2001): 259-85. O’Callaghan, Evelyn. “The Modernization of the Trinidadian Landscape in the Novels of Earl Lovelace.” ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature 20.1 (1989): 41-54. Raja, Masood Ashraf. “‘We is All People’: The Marginalised East-Indian and the Economy of Difference in Lovelace’s The Dragon Can’t Dance.” Caribbean Studies 34.1 (2006): 111-130. Ramchand, Kenneth. “An Approach to Earl Lovelace’s Novel Through an Examination of Indian African Relations in The Dragon Can’t Dance.” Wasafiri: Journal of Caribbean, African, Asian and Associated Literatures and Film 1.2 (1984): 62-85. —. “Indian-African Relations in Caribbean Fiction: Reflected in Earl Lovelace’s The Dragon Can’t Dance.” Wasafiri: Journal of Caribbean, African, Asian and Associated Literature and Film 2 (1985): 18-23. —. “Why the Dragon Can’t Dance: An Examination of Indian-African Relations in Lovelace’s The Dragon Can’t Dance.” Journal of West Indian Literature 2.2 (1998): 1-14. Reyes, Angelita. “Carnival-Ritual Dance of the Past and Present in Earl Lovelace’s The Dragon Can’t Dance.” World Literature Written in English 24: 107-20. —. “‘All O’ We is One’ or Carnival as a Ritual of Resistance: The Dragon Can’t Dance.” African Literature in Its Social and Political Dimensions. Eds. Eileen Julien, Mildred Mortimer, and Curtis Shade. Washington DC: Three Continents, 1986. 59-68. http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/anthurium/vol4/iss2/6 4 Johnson: Earl Lovelace: Selected Bibliography Rogers, Elsa P. “Orality Versus Literacy: A Study of the Nature and
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