Caribbean Writers and Their Art: Islands & Mainland (1991)

Edward Baugh explains that many Caribbean writers have had the experience of growing up in the islands and then of moving to live on a continent and, occasionally, thereafter back to the islands. He shows where Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, and Jamaica are on the map and describes those islands briefly. Baugh interviews Barbadian novelist Kwadwo Kamau about his life and work as an immigrant to the United States. Next, Baugh interviews Rawle Frederick, Trinidadian author of poetry and short stories, about his life and work as an immigrant in Montreal, Canada, in Tanzania, and in Bermuda, where Frederick teaches and which Baugh jokingly refers to as "an honorary West Indian island." Baugh then talks with Randi Kristensen, a graduate student at Louisiana State University in sociology, an activist for immigrants whose homelands were affected by U.S. foreign policies, and an aspiring writer. Having spent her life traveling back and forth between Jamaica and America, she is interested in ho