Alison Donnell reads from Lost and Found: An A-Z of Neglected Writers of the Anglophone Caribbean
Part one
Alison Donnell reads from Lost and Found: An A-Z of Neglected Writers of the Anglophone Caribbean
Part two: Alison Donnell reads from E is for Gloria Escoffery (p.58)
Caribbean Seminar Series - Lost and Found: An A-Z of Neglected Writers of the Anglophone Caribbean
“The A-Z of Neglected Writers from the English-speaking Caribbean makes a major contribution to restoring a fuller picture of this region’s extraordinary literary history. It brings back to attention writers who were prominent in their day and subsequently slipped out of view – such as Phyllis Shand Allfrey, W. G. Ogilvie and Claude Thompson, while also advocating for writers whose work was never properly recognised or circulated – such as Edwina Melville and Monica Skeete. Offering a fascinating insight into the much wider range of twentieth-century writers than is commonly acknowledged, this book also provides future researchers with a comprehensive bibliography of their forgotten works.”
What they say
“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.”
– Bernardine Evaristo, Booker Prize Winner, 2019
“Seldom does academic work transform a landscape. Alison Donnell has resuscitated and reformed the mostly male-dominated Caribbean canon to show that women were very much part of the Golden Age of Caribbean literature. It needs to be widely read.”
– Monique Roffey, Winner of Costa Book of the year 2020
“Lost and Found challenges our most deeply held literary myth: that West Indian literature spontaneously arose mid-century when a few gifted men, justly celebrated, burst onto the metropolitan literary scene. It offers acute insight into the politics of how literary recognition might be gained – or lost.”
–Olive Senior, Author and Poet Laureate of Jamaica, 2021-2024
“An astonishment and a revelation: of all that has been written and all that was, until now, in danger of being irrevocably lost. Extremely well written, informative and insightful, Lost and Found is literary and biographical excavation at its best.”
– Jacqueline Bishop, Award-Winning Writer and Visual Artist
About the Author
Alison Donnell
Alison Donnell is head of Humanities and Professor of Modern Literatures in English at the University of Bristol. She has published widely in the field of Caribbean literature, with significant contributions to literary history and culture, research in to women authors, and Caribbean literary archives.
