Lost and Found: An A-Z of Neglected Writers of the Anglophone Caribbean [Paperback]

This wonderfully rich book rewrites the 20th-century literary history of the West Indies.  Trinidad & Tobago ExpressLost and Found: An A-Z of Neglected Writers of the Anglophone Caribbean makes a major contribution to providing a fuller picture of the region's rich literary history. It both restores our knowledge of writers - such as WG Ogilvie and Claude Thompson - whose lives and work have slipped out of view while heralding others - Edwina Melville and Monica Skeete, for example - whose work has never been properly recognised. Offering a fascinating insight into the worlds of these 'lost' writers, this A-Z also provides future researchers with a comprehensive bibliography of their forgotten works. This wonderfully rich book rewrites the 20th-century literary history of the West Indies. This is a fascinating, groundbreaking and essential rewriting of literary history to include outstanding writers who fell from sight but whose works deserve to be better known. So she searched and researched and found gems.GB