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Paul Niger was a Guadeloupean poet, novelist, colonial administrator, and anticolonial organizer whose brief but impactful life bridged...

Édouard Glissant was one of the great Caribbean writers and thinkers of the twentieth century: a Martinican poet,...

Jacques Stephen Alexis (1922–1961) was a Haitian novelist, neurologist, and Marxist political activist whose life and work came to embody the intertwined struggles for culture, dignity, and freedom in 20th‑century Haiti....

Claude McKay was a Jamaican-American poet best known for his radical sonnet “If We Must Die,” one of...