TOPIC FINDER
Use the pull down lists to construct searches to locate books which contain significant treatments of topics listed under the eight categories below. You can build a search using as many topic fields as you like, though since these are "and" searches, using more than three or four fields will reduce the possibilities of getting useful results. If you make no choice under a category, the search assumes you want to include all choices as an "or" search. To find further details on the treatment of topics in any books you are interested in, use the link on the title in the display page and look up extended notes.
Period Setting
all Colonialism and Indentured Immigration Nationalist Stirrings Towards Independence Post-colonial years Caribbean in the Global age Pre-Columbian period Age of European Expansion Sugar and Slavery History as theme
People Who Came
all African-Caribbeans Amerindians Beyond ethnicity Chinese in Caribbean Europeans in Caribbean Indian Caribbeans Madrassis Mixed race groups Muslims
Inner Lives
all Alienated selves Childhood & Youth Death and loss Disability, Stigma and illness Dreams and Dreaming Elders Fathers and fathering Friendship Growing up to be a man Love and sexual relations Madness Madness and psychic breakdown Memory Moral consciousness Mothers and mothering Personal bodies Rape and sexual assault Search for identity Sexual orientation Sibling relationships Suicide and self-harm Women's oppression Women's self assertion
Social Being
all Class divisions Crime and Justice Education Family structures Politics Poverty Race relations Racism Resistance, rebellion & marronage Social attitudes to lesbians & gays Social breakdown State power & oppression Trade unions and workers struggle Work
Cultural Forms
all Body movement Calypso & other musical forms Carnival Cinema and popular entertainments Cricket & other sports Cultural Icons Cultural loss Folk healing Food Ganja Hair and body adornment Horse racing Houses and yards Persistance of ancestral cultures Reggae Rumshops and alcohol Syncretism and cultural exchange The writer as icon Tricksters Visual arts
Place & Nature
all Animals and humans Cities Ecology and environment From country to city Imagined Places Landscape Migration Nature Return to the Caribbean The plantation Village and rural life Wilderness
Spirit
all African religions in the Caribbean Caribbean cosmology Christianity Folk beliefs Hinduism Humanism Islam Marxism & revolutionary ideologies Possession Prophets & Prophecy Rastafarianism
Literary Forms
all Caribbean Caribbean writing Caribbean diasporic writing Comic Writing Dub/ Performance poetry Eldoradean writing Folk tales Forms of autobiography Genres Intertextuality Lyric poetry Narrative and dramatic forms in verse Nation language & creoles Prose poetry Short Stories Sisyphean writing Social realism/Yard literature
