The sixteenth Worldwide Convention of Caribbean Research, hosted by the “Norman Girvan” Division of Caribbean Research on the College of Havana, is going down now (December 14-16, 2022). The convention is organized across the theme “Cuba y el Caribe: 50 años de relaciones.” At the moment, the keynote speech—”El corpus literario del Caribe anglófono: una bibliografía cronológica” [The Literary Corpus of Caribbean Anglophone Literature-A Chronological Bibliography]—was delivered by Dr. Emilio Jorge Rodríguez. The panel was moderated by Dr. Camila Valdés, with main Cuban poet Nancy Morejón (Nationwide Prize of Literature) as commentator.
The keynote speech centered on Dr. Rodríguez’s work to supply an exhaustive database in addition to book-length manuscript for publication. Listed below are excerpts from his presentation:
For greater than three a long time now, one side of my work has been to doc Anglophone-Caribbean literary manufacturing, with a view to finishing a Chronological Bibliography of Anglophone-Caribbean Literature from the beginnings, within the seventeenth century, as much as 1980. A lot of the knowledge from the Eighties is on the internet, as anyone is aware of. And the information earlier than 1980 could be discovered as properly, however what I’ve finished is in sequential order, 12 months by 12 months, of the primary version of every ebook revealed by each Caribbean writer [. . .].
The consequence is a piece wherein anybody can discover nation, 12 months, style, writer, publishing home and publishing metropolis, from the English-speaking Caribbean literary manufacturing since its beginnings to 1980. [Thus] everybody can get the chronology of the revealed works of an writer, a rustic, or a territory, or verify any database in regards to the publishing homes the place Caribbean books have been revealed. For researchers and professors [it is also useful as] a strategy to show a chronology of the event of genres and nationwide or territorial manufacturing for a greater research of the literature of every nation or territory, in addition to the entire Caribbean area. In actual fact, it’s a corpus to rearrange and manage nationwide literary histories or a regional Caribbean historical past of literature. Anybody can create graphics with this database in order to develop analysis on any matter linked with Caribbean authors and works.
My purpose has been to create an exhaustive database of first editions of all literary works previous to 1980, wherever on this planet they’ve been revealed, by writers from the English-speaking Caribbean: Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Montserrat, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, British Virgin Islands and US Virgin Islands. Additionally, given the significance of the oral custom as a part of the literary corpus and to finish the canon of literary manufacturing of the Caribbean, my documentation has included compilations on literary folklore by researchers from nations outdoors the Caribbean space, distinguishing these entries by a unique typography.
I’ve painstakingly been documenting in sequential order, 12 months by 12 months, the primary version of every ebook revealed by each Caribbean writer and coming into the bibliographic data in database EXCEL recordsdata with columns for Nation, Yr, Creator, Title, Style, Publishing Home, Place (Publishing Metropolis), Variety of pages, Supply. I’ve completed this by conducting analysis in archives and libraries within the Caribbean (Barbados, Cuba, Guyana, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, and Trinidad and Tobago), america of America, and Nice Britain.
Outputs of this analysis
The instant output of my analysis has been a piece wherein college students and researchers can find nation, 12 months, style, writer, title, publishing home for all English-speaking Caribbean literary manufacturing throughout the centuries. This, in flip, will represent a corpus for nationwide and comparative regional literary histories, in addition to particular person authors and works. The database so far has already proved an indispensable instrument for creating my very own analysis. The concluding work can even disseminate the knowledge for the good thing about others, by way of each the database and a book-length manuscript for publication. [. . .]
For extra data or to entry the total keynote speech, you could contact the writer at ejorge@cubarte.cult.cu
For extra on the convention, see https://www.fb.com/catedracaribenormangirvan/