If you didn't know, I've been hard at work putting together my committee and reading list for my PhD exams, which I intend to take in March or April of next year. The list will likely change in the next few weeks, given feedback from my director, but I thought you'd all like to see what I'm up to academically.
For those that don't know, I am writing my PhD on the relationship between the Caribbean and the space of Empire (spatiality). In particular, my work will be an attempt to conceptualize how Empire is spatially constructed and how such constructions are reflected in the literature and resisted/manipulated/etc. by Caribbean peoples/characters/authors/etc. The idea is to (hopefully) mold together my work on Hopkinson and Buckell for the MA into a larger project on Caribbean literature.
With that in mind, here is the list I've so far constructed. Feel free to offer suggestions of your own, as this reading list is only for my exams and not necessarily for my final project.
Here goes:
Cambridge
Novels
(Early Period)
The English in the West Indies , Or, the Bow of Ulysses by James Anthony Froude
Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands by Mary Seacole
Rupert Gray, a Study in Black and White by Stephen N. Cobham
(Modern and Mid-20th Century)
Emmanuel Appadocca by Michel Maxwell Philip
Minty Alley by C. L. R. James
A Morning at the Office by Edgar Mittelholzer
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
(Contemporary)
The Enigma of Arrival by V. S. Naipaul
Frangipani House by Beryl Gilroy
A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging by Dianne Brand
(Genre and Related Contemporary)
Crystal Rain by Tobias S. Buckell
Ragamuffin by Tobias S. Buckell
Sly Mongoose by Tobias S. Buckell (note: there is a fourth book coming out in this series, which I may add to this list at a later time)
Midnight Robber by Nalo Hopkinson
Redemption in Indigo by Karen Lord
Theory, History, etc.
(Spatial Theory)
The Production of Space by Henri Lefebvre
The Urban Experience by David Harvey
The Road to Botany Bay : An Essay in Spatial History by Paul Carter
The Archaeologies of the Future by Fredric Jameson
The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard
(Caribbean History, Postcolonial Theory, etc.)
Writing in Limbo by Simon Gikandi
Poetics of Relation by Edouard Glissant
The Repeating Island: the Caribbean and the Postmodern Perspective by Rojo Antonio Benitez
The Pleasures of Exile by George Lamming
The British Caribbean : From the Decline of Colonialism to the End of Federation by Elisabeth Wallace
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