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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New Day

New Day
Reid, Victor Stafford
Melbourne : W. Heinemann, 1950
344 p. ; 19 cm

A historical novel about a Jamaican man who witnessed the rebellion of 1865 and narrates the story in his own words. The cover, a line drawing of a colonial street,picks up on the historic theme. Reid, like many Caribbean novelists, saw the novel especially, but not exclusively, as a means of recapturing a lost history through imaginative forms. He was especially interested in doing so in his young people's literature.

H.D. Carberry Collection of Caribbean Studies
University of Illinois at Chicago Library
Daley Library - Special Collections/3rd floor (non-circ.)
PR9265.9.R4 N49 1950

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Pieces of Paradise

Pieces of Paradise
Helweg-Larsen, Kjeld
London ; New York : Jarrolds, 1967
184 p. ; ill. (col. front), maps ; 24 cm

The cover photograph evokes one familiar image of the exotic, the edenic, long associated with representations of the Caribbean in the British book trade. This cover also invites the tourist, at a time when the British tourist industry was growing. Such images of the "paradise" of the Caribbean or the "tropics" in general appear in Victorian literature and travel writing, a period that marks the beginning of tourism as an industry. The photographs of visiting British royalty on the back cover mark this association even more strongly.

H.D. Carberry Collection of Caribbean Studies
University of Illinois at Chicago Library
Daley Library - Special Collections/3rd floor (non-circ.)
F1612 .H37

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