New World Adams: Interviews with West Indian Writers - Tapa blanda

In this updated collection of interviews with 22 of the most important writers of the English-speaking Caribbean, matters of relevant biography, social and political context, the writer’s attitudes toward language, and his or her agenda as a Caribbean person are explored. Providing more than just a valuable sourcebook for readers of West Indian writing, these interviews are probing, combative, reflective, and absorbing. The writers interviewed include Michael Anthony, Louise Bennett, Jan Carew, Martin Carter, Denis Williams, Austin Clarke, Neville Dawes, Wilson Harris, John Hearne, C. L. R. James, Ismith Khan, George Lamming, Earl Lovelace, Tony McNeil, Pam Mordecai, Velma Pollard, Mervyn Morris, Orlando Patterson, Vic Reid, Dennis Scott, Sam Selvon, Michael Thelwell, Derek Walcott, and Sylvia Wynter.

Daryl C. Dance is a professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. She is the recipient of Ford Foundation Fellowships and a Fulbright research grant. She is the author of Fifty Caribbean Writers, which was named as the outstanding reference book of 1986 by Library Journal; Folklore from Contemporary Jamaicans; Honey, Hush!; Long Gone; and Shuckin' and Jivin'.