Assembled to meet the growing interest in Indo-Caribbean literature, this wide-ranging collection brings together a series of fresh and incisive critical articles. Issues investigated include gender and racial relations, religion, indenture, violence, nature, cricket and madness.

The opening essay unpicks the diary of the first coolie voyage in 1838, while later essays provide important new readings of the work of Indo-Caribbean writers including V.S. Naipaul, Cyril Dabydeen, David Dabydeen, Patrick Chamoiseau, Lakshmi Persaud, Ramabai Espinet, Harold Sonny Ladoo, Rooplall Monar, Shani Mootoo, Ernest Moutoussamy and Sam Selvon. This diversity promises to stimulate dialogue on Indo-Caribbean literature and serve as a strong reference point for current and future students and researchers in the field.

David Dabydeen is the Professor of Caribbean Literature at Warwick University. He is the author of six novels and a number of important studies on the relationship between slavery and art. His awards include the Commonwealth Poetry Prize and the Guyana Prize for Literature, and his poetry collections include Turner: New & Selected Poems (Peepal Tree, 2003). Letizia Gramaglia is Associate Fellow at the Centre for Caribbean Studies at Warwick University.