General information on and from the Caribbean:

• "The West Indies" and "History of the West Indies" (Encyclopedia Britannica Online — HSU users only)
• "Caribbean" (Wikipedia)
• Map of the Caribbean region
• CaribbeanNewspapers.com (a clearinghouse site with links to over 20 regional papers, including:)
  • The (Kingston) Jamaica Gleaner
  • The (Port-of-Spain) Trinidad Express
  • The (Port-of-Spain) Trinidad Guardian
• Caribbean Radio: Links to live streaming audio from radio stations across the Caribbean (CaribbeanNews.com)
• The South Asian Diaspora page at UC-Berkeley (includes maps, historical documents & essays, and other resources devoted to South Asians in the Caribbean)
• Caribbean Immigration (part of the Schomburg Center's In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience) focuses largely but not exclusively on Caribbean migration to the U.S., while the Caribbean Timeline and Caribbean Migration pages of the National Archives' Moving Here: Migration Histories website focuses on Caribbean migration to Britain
• Caribbean History resources (Stanford)
• Visions of the Caribbean (online exhibition at the Historical Museum of South Florida; includes reproductions of historical prints and maps)

Information on individual countries in the Caribbean:

• HSU users only: go to Encyclopedia Britannica Online and click on "World Atlas" in the sidebar
• The CIA World Factbook (from everyone's favorite spooks)

Caribbean Literature
General Sites:

• Caribbean Literature at "The Voice of the Shuttle" (Alan Liu, UCSB)
• The Caribbean, part of George Landow's "Postcolonial and Postimperial Literatures" site at the National University of Singapore
• Rita Raley's superb Caribbean Literature course homepage at UCSB includes a good map, excellent epigraphs, and loads of links (many to full-text documents)
• Writers of the Caribbean (Cherhonda N. Murchison, East Carolina U): biographies, bibliographies and links
• Emory University's Postcolonial Studies site includes bio-bibliographical info on many Caribbean writers
• Sara Herbert's "Caribbean Poetry" page approaches the region's poetry through an emphasis on Barbados

Theory and Criticism:

• Selwyn Cudjoe, "Identity and Caribbean Literature" (lecture)
• Créolité (Wikipedia)
• "Caribbean Theory and Criticism" in the Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism (HSU users only)
• A round table discussion with Caribbean writers:  Ray Suarez talks with Jamaica Kincaid, Edwidge Danticat and Enrique Fernandez on NPR's radio program "Talk of the Nation," March 4, 1997 (RealAudio file)

Journals:

• Callaloo focuses frequently on Caribbean writers; it is available to HSU users through the JSTOR (1976-1994) and Project Muse (1995- ) online electronic databases
• Transition often includes work by and about Caribbean writers; it is available to HSU users through the JSTOR (1961-1999) and Project Muse (1999- ) online electronic databases
• The Caribbean Writer (University of the Virgin Islands): more recent volumes contain full-text online articles, stories and poems
• Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal (University of Miami)
• Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism (Indiana UP)

Sites related to authors or works that we're studying in this class:

• See the Reserve Reading page