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Trinidad and Tobago

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  • EssayFree MulattoJean-Baptiste Philippe · 1824Since the English conquest of 1797, the governors of Trinidad have been whittling away the rights that Spain had recognised for free people of colour.Literature
  • NovelEmmanuel AppadoccaMichel Maxwell Philip · 1854Twenty years after the abolition of slavery in the British colonies, a student from Trinidad publishes in London an indictment of the masters of America.Literature
  • NovelMinty AlleyC. L. R. James · 1936No black West Indian has yet published a novel in England when a teacher from Trinidad arrives there with a manuscript in his suitcase.Literature
  • NovelCrown JewelRalph de Boissière · 1952The book appears in Australia, where the author has gone into exile, from a small campaigning publisher backed by the trade unions.Literature
  • NovelThe Lonely LondonersSamuel Selvon · 1956Britain has opened its doors to the subjects of its empire, and West Indians are arriving in London in large numbers.Literature
  • NovelThe Mystic MasseurV. S. Naipaul · 1957In the Indian community of Trinidad, at the end of the colonial period, a young emigrant settled in London laughs at his native island.Literature
  • NovelThe Jumbie BirdIsmith Khan · 1961Three generations of Indo-Trinidadians in the capital, between the dream of India and Caribbean rootedness.Literature
  • NovelThe Year in San FernandoMichael Anthony · 1965The narrative appears in London, written by a Trinidadian who had been settled in England for about ten years and was employed at a press agency.Literature
  • NovelThe Humming-Bird TreeIan McDonald · 1969The book appeared in London seven years after the independence of Trinidad and Tobago and looks back on the colonial island of the forties.Literature
  • TheatreDream on Monkey MountainDerek Walcott · 1970In the years of independence, a Saint Lucian poet based in Trinidad stages the self-shame that colonisation left behind.Literature
  • CinemaThe Right and the WrongHarbance Kumar · 1970Eight years after independence, the island at last produces a fiction feature film itself, with a crew and actors from the country.Cinema
  • NovelCrick Crack, MonkeyMerle Hodge · 1970Eight years after the country's independence, a young Trinidadian woman publishes in London the story of a childhood spent under the colonial school.Literature
  • NovelFirefliesShiva Naipaul · 1970The chronicle of a great Hindu family of Trinidad in decline, carried by a tenacious woman.Literature
  • NovelNo Pain Like This BodyHarold Sonny Ladoo · 1972A short, violent novel of the Indo-Trinidadian countryside, the first book of a writer settled in Toronto.Literature
  • CinemaBimHugh A. Robertson · 1974Four years after the Black Power revolt and an army mutiny, Trinidad looks at itself through its rivalries between Indians and Africans.Cinema
  • NovelThe Dragon Can't DanceEarl Lovelace · 1979A few years after independence, the Trinidad carnival becomes commercialised, and the poor of the capital ask themselves what is still theirs.Literature
  • Feature filmThe Hummingbird TreeNoella Smith · 1992The BBC television adaptation of a classic of Trinidadian childhood, shot on the island.Cinema