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  1. Caribbean Roots: Poets Read Their Own Work (2011)

    Subject
    Literature
    Distribution
    Audio (CD, 140 minutes), £16.00

    This 2-CD collection brings together 58 recordings of ten Black British and Caribbean poets. The selections illustrate a range of experiences, emotions, styles and influences, reflecting both the culture of...

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  2. Wide Sargasso Sea: Real and Imaginary Islands (1997 Video)

    Producer
    Amanda Willett
    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 29 min., 1999 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Looks at the life and work of Jean Rhys, born and brought up on the Caribbean island of Dominica, and her most well-known novel, ‘Wide Sargasso Sea’.

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  3. Derek Walcott - Nobel Lecture (1992)

    Subject
    Literature

    The text and a streamed audio recording of Derek Walcott’s Nobel lecture given on 7 December, 1992, available free on the internet.

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  4. Caribbean Poetry: The Literary and Oral Traditions (1991 Video)

    Producer
    Amanda Willett
    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Poets James Berry, David Dabydeen and Jackie Kay discuss the varied traditions of poetry in the Caribbean. The programme looks at two distinct strands of poetry - the oral and the literary - and discusses...

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  5. I is a Long Memoried Woman (1990 Video)

    Director
    Frances Anne Solomon
    Producer
    David Wilkinson
    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Out OF Distribution, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 60 min., 1998 sale £50.00 (+VAT +p&p) Arts Council 1999 sale: £12.75 (+VAT inc. p&p) Resources in Education and Training

    A drama/dance adaptation of a collection of poems by Grace Nichols. By drawing on elements of African culture such as music, sorcery and magic, it tells of a spiritual journey of an African woman taken in...

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  6. Texturing the Word (1989 Video)

    Director
    Amon Saba Saakana
    Subject
    English language and literature; Literature; Sociology
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 55 min., 2004 hire: £20.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    A survey of Caribbean literature in Britain from the late 1940s to the present day, responding to the issues of colonialism, immigration, morality and language.

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  7. Dread, Beat an’ Blood (1980)

    aka: Dread, Beat and Blood

    Director
    Franco Rosso
    Producer
    Franco Rosso
    Subject
    Literature; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (45 minutes), £50.00

    Profile of Linton Kwesi Johnson whose poetry is rooted very strongly in feelings of marginalisation and alienation found within urban black populations in the UK. Johnson, born in Jamaica in 1952, has...

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