Kenneth Ramchand
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Kenneth Ramchand is a Trinidad and Tobago academic and writer, who is widely respected as "arguably the most prominent living critic of Caribbean fiction". He has written extensively on many West Indi
Ramchand (left) with Surinamese writer Ismene Krishnadath at the Schrijverschap 2000 congress in Paramaribo, July 1997
Caribbean literature
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Caribbean literature is the literature of the various territories of the Caribbean region. Literature in English from the former British West Indies may be referred to as Anglo-Caribbean or, in histor
Kenneth Ramchand
…and Its Background (1970), had a transformational effect on the syllabus of the University of the West Indies (UWI) and the internationalization of West Indian literature as an academic discipline. Ramchand is Professor Emeritus of English at the St. Augustine campus of UWI. Until his resignation in June 2009, he was…
Marlon James at the 2010 Brooklyn Book Festival