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This blog was a short-lived pilot designed to showcase images of dustjackets and book covers from the UIC Library's HD Carberry Collection of Caribbean Literature. While the Library may one day use a blog such as this to highlight digital collections, at this time this blog will be discontinued.

Additional images from the collection may be viewed through the Library's authoritative collections hosted by its consortium, CARLI. The images at in the Carberry Collection of Caribbean Literature with CARLI include richer metadata and separate views of sections of the jackets. Images will be added as the digitization efforts continue through 2009 and into 2010.

Some of the images may also be found at a Library pilot using Flickr. The images are duplicates of the ones in the CARLI collection.

While Gods Are Falling

While gods are falling
Lovelace, Earl
London : Collins, 1965
254 p. ; 21 cm.

Winner of the BP Independence Literary Award of 1965, this novel marks Lovelace’s emergence in a public way as a major voice in Caribbean literature. The action follows the then familiar passage of populations from rural to urban in its focus on a rural family settled in a Port of Spain tenement. The protagonist discovers the possibility of political agency by getting involved in a murder trial. The urban scene would provide Lovelace with material for some of his richest novels, notably The Dragon Can’t Dance (1979 – in the Carberry) and the much later, Commonwealth Prize winning, Salt.

H.D. Carberry Collection of Caribbean Studies
University of Illinois at Chicago Library
Daley Library - Special Collections/3rd floor (non-circ.)
PR9272.9.L6 W4 1965

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A Quality of Violence

A Quality of violence
Salkey, Andrew
London ; New York : New Authors Limited, 1959.
205 p. ; 21 cm

Historical novel of the drought of 1900 in rural Jamaica. Ten years after the arrival of the HMS Windrush with the first group of immigrants from the Caribbean; growing racial unrest in Britain and political unrest in Jamaica; note rugged linear design of figures. Reprinted 1962, New English Library; in Carberry Collection.

H.D. Carberry Collection of Caribbean Studies
University of Illinois at Chicago Library
Daley Library - Special Collections/3rd floor (non-circ.)
PR9265.9.S2 Q83 1959

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Havana Journal

Havana journal
Salkey, Andrew
Harmondsworth ; Baltimore : Penguin, 1971.
315 p. ; 19 cm

See Salkey's other work on Cuba, Writing in Cuba since the Revolution (1977). Salkey was a superb journalist and commentator on the Caribbean political scene. Another companion work is Georgetown Journal (1972).

H.D. Carberry Collection of Caribbean Studies
University of Illinois at Chicago Library
Daley Library - Special Collections/3rd floor (non-circ.)
F1765.2 .S24

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Writing in Cuba since the Revolution

Writing in Cuba since the Revolution : an anthology of poems, short stories, and essays
Edited and introduced by Andrew Salkey
London : Bogle-l’Ouverture Publications Limited, c1977.
162 p. ; 22 cm

Collection of poems, short pieces translated into English from Cuban writers marking Salkey's interest in Cuban culture and politics since the revolution. See companion work, Havana Journal.

H.D. Carberry Collection of Caribbean Studies
University of Illinois at Chicago Library
Daley Library - Special Collections/3rd floor (non-circ.)
PQ7383.5.E5 W7

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Ratoon

Ratoon
Nicole, Christopher
London : Cassell, 1975.
256 p. ; 20 cm

A type of cover art popular especially for historical novels of the type that came to be known in this period as bodice rippers. This particular cover is in that genre and plays on racial and gender themes that recur in the jacket art of the collection.

H.D. Carberry Collection of Caribbean Studies
University of Illinois at Chicago Library
Daley Library - Special Collections/3rd floor (non-circ.)
PR9320.9.N5 R38 1975

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Jamaica is the Eye of Bolivar

Jamaica is the eye of Bolivar : a play in two acts
Cuevas Cancino, Francisco M
New York : Vantage Press, c1979.
81 p. ; 21 cm

Two-act play on Bolívar's growth as a leader from encounter with slaves on Jamaica.

H.D. Carberry Collection of Caribbean Studies
University of Illinois at Chicago Library
Daley Library - Special Collections/3rd floor (non-circ.)
PQ7298.13.U33 J3 1979

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Big Doc Bitteroot

Big Doc Bitteroot
Palmer, C. Everard
London : Deutsch, 1968
157 p. ; 21 cm

Young people's novel of what happens when a charlatan doctor comes to a tribal Jamaican village.

H.D. Carberry Collection of Caribbean Studies
University of Illinois at Chicago Library
Daley Library - Special Collections/3rd floor (non-circ.)
PR9265.9.P3 B54 1968

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