Essential Reading List

Literature

Classics: - Aimé Césaire - Cahier d'un retour au pays natal (Notebook of a Return to the Native Land) - Édouard Glissant - Poétique de la Relation (Poetics of Relation) - Patrick Chamoiseau - Texaco - Maryse Condé - I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem - Simone Schwarz-Bart - The Bridge of Beyond

Contemporary: - Gisèle Pineau - The Drifting of Spirits - Raphaël Confiant - Mamzelle Dragonfly - Daniel Maximin - Lone Sun - Fabienne Kanor - Humus - Estelle-Sarah Bulle - Where Dogs Bark with Their Tails

Historical & Social Analysis

- Laurent Dubois - Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution - Richard Price - First-Time: The Historical Vision of an African American People - Christine Chivallon - The Black Diaspora of the Americas - Myriam Cottias - La Question noire: Histoire d'une construction coloniale - Stéphanie Mulot - Families in Guadeloupe: Matrifocality and Social Change

Cultural Studies

- Éloge de la Créolité by Jean Bernabé, Patrick Chamoiseau, and Raphaël Confiant - Édouard Glissant - Caribbean Discourse - Antonio Benítez-Rojo - The Repeating Island - Shalini Puri - The Caribbean Postcolonial - Gary Wilder - Freedom Time

Cookbooks

- Babette de Rozières - Creole: The Cookbook - Vanessa Bolosier - Fruits of the Caribbean - Christiane Dove-Isimat - Caribbean Cooking - Sylvie Thiébault - French Caribbean Cuisine