Annotated Bibliography of Folk Drama in the Anglophone Caribbean, I. Bibliographies

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1 Annotated Bibliography of Folk Drama in the Anglophone Caribbean, I. Bibliographies Abrahams, Roger D., and John F. Szwed, eds. Afro-American Folk Culture: An Annotated Bibliography of Materials from North, Central and South America and the West Indies. Philadelphia: Institute for Study of Human Issues, Major bibliographical source for folk traditions. Entries cite materials inaccessible to and/or ignored by previous researchers. The eight divisions in the Caribbean section are divided linguistically into English-Speaking West Indies, French-Speaking West Indies, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Cuba, Puerto Rico, French Guiana, and Suriname; English section has 744 entries and should be the beginning point for researchers interested in investigating Afro-American folk traditions in the areas covered. Augier, F.R. and Shirley C. Gordon, comps. Sources of West Indian History. London: Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd., Quotations from West Indian historians arranged under heading of Government and Politics, Economic Life, People of Caribbean, Religion and Education, Slavery and its Abolition, Emancipation and Apprenticeship, Social Conditions and Emancipation, Attempts at Unification. Compilers hope that the bibliography will engender a reassessment of past historians. Designed for pedagogical purposes and valuable as an index to social, political and religious inclinations of the writers quoted. Folk traditions record similar inclinations; interpretation of them requires an understanding of social attitudes reflected in historical writings. Banham, Martin, Errol Hill, and George Woodyard, eds. The Cambridge Guide to African and Caribbean Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, Historical survey of the theatrical developments in the "polyglot" societies of Africa and the Caribbean from 17th century to the present with introductory essays and bibliographical entries divided between African and Caribbean theater; subdivisions have regions and individual playwrights, actors, producers and productions. References lead researchers to primary and secondary sources necessary to evaluate the reciprocal

2 relationship between formal drama and folk traditions. (See Section V of this bibliography.) Brathwaite, Edward Kamau. Our Ancestral Heritage: A Bibliography of the Roots of Culture in the English Speaking Caribbean. Kingston, Jamaica: The Literary Committee of Carifesta 76, Lists, annotations, and introductory essays by Brathwaite, a major West Indian historian and poet. Sections include I. General Historical Source Material; II. Literary; III. Language. Valuable for reassessment of contributions of early English historians such as Long whom Brathwaite recognizes as a brilliant writer on the Caribbean. Introduction to section on literature "UN/MAN" places Caribbean literature in the context of European history and discounts earlier theories on why Caribbean contribution is "deformed and pauperized" (92). Section III has Individuals, Newspapers and Periodicals, and Biographical Studies. Carvajal, Manuel J. The Caribbean : A Bibliography of Economic and Rural Development. Metuchen, New Jersey: Scarecrow, Caribbean identified as cultural groups with entries arranged geographically; annotation when sources available; section on folk art. Cowley, John. Carnival, Canboulay and Calypso Traditions in the Making. Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., Recent study with current bibliographical material; development of carnival from 1783 to 20th century; emphasis on music, influence of social/political factors on popular performance. Cundall, Frank. Bibliographia Jamaicensis and a Supplement. London: The Institute of Jamaica, Bibliography of the West Indies (Excluding Jamaica). New York: Johnson Reprint, Goslinga, Marian. A Bibliography of the Caribbean. Scarecrow Area Bibliographies, No. 8. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow, First comprehensive general bibliography on region since 1977; selective guide to Caribbean from earliest times until end of Excludes periodical articles, dissertations, theses, pamphlets, government documents, book reviews, and newspaper clippings. Handler, Jerome S., ed. A Guide to Source Materials for the Study of Barbados History, Cardondale: Southern Illinois U.P., 1971.

3 Updates earlier bibliographies of Cundall (the earliest) and Ragatz (the most comprehensive). Valuable for its assessment of early histories of West Indies. Hogg, Peter. The African Slave Trade and Its Suppression A Classified and Annotated Bibliography of Books,: Pamphlets, and Periodical Articles. London: Frank Cass, Lists of West African, contemporary accounts; biographies of slaves, slaving voyages, ethnic origins of slaves; lists of illustrations in the British Library Reference Division. Ingram, Kenneth E. Manuscripts Relating to Commonwealth Caribbean Countries in the United States and Canadian Repositories. Epping, England: Caribbean Universities Press in association with Bowker Publishing Company, Survey of 92 repositories located in California, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Virginia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec, and the Canal Zone. Ingram inspected collections in 35 libraries and includes 1038 entries; lists entries in chronological order for each repository. Examples of material related to early Caribbean history such as a letter to Raleigh, a c1838 document by W. Irving "The Bermudas: A shakespearean [sic] research", 1751 reference in George Washington's Diary to his visit to Barbados, "Grenada Papers with information about Carriacou; Ingram includes a chronological short list, maps, and index. Jordan, Alma and Barbara Comissiong. The English-Speaking Caribbean: A Bibliography of Bibliographies. Boston, Massachusetts: G.K. Hall, Comprehensive and reliable guide to secondary source materials. Entries arranged topically by place; annotations are evaluative and critical. Ragatz, Lowell Joseph. The Fall of the Planter Class in the British Caribbean, New York, New York: Octagon Books, Twenty-nine page "Bibliography Notes" lists libraries, guides, indexes, bibliographies, and manuscripts with their locations. "Notes" section includes useful essays on "General Histories," "Local Histories," "Description and Travel," "The Religious Situation," "Economic Literature," "The Slave Trade, Slavery, Abolition, and Emancipation," and "Newspapers and Periodicals." ---. A Guide for the Study of British Caribbean History, , Including the Abolition and Emancipation Movements. Washington, D. C.: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1932.

4 Bibliographers Jordan and Commission (above) warn researchers to use Ragatz's Guide with caution but recognize value of reviews of local histories; useful assessment of early travel accounts range from "sketchy impressions, to treatises by estate owners, military men, and feminine relatives of colonial officials" (484). Section IV of Annotated Bibliography of Folk Plays includes early travel accounts in all categories. Ragatz's Guide referred to by other scholars as a "classic." Tyson, George F., Jr. "'Jumpin' Up: Festivals and Masquerades in the Danish West Indies." U.S. Virgin Islands: Department of Education, forthcoming. Table of contents lists forty-three source documents for information on festivals and masquerades dating from 1772 (C. G. Oldendrop's A Christian Mission) to 1901 (St Croix Avis); unannotated entries listed by authors. (Five-page sample reviewed by researchers before publication; listed here with Tyson's permission.) ---. A Guide to Manuscript Sources in United States and West Indian Depositories Relating to the British West Indies During the Era of the American Revolution. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, Useful list of minutes, speeches, acts, deed record books, manumissions, indentures and land grants, court records, letters, files, official government documents, account books, etc. from the "era of the American Revolution." Locations, authors (when applicable), and dates of manuscripts specified. Annotations though infrequent include information on people and history. Whitten, Norman and John S. Szwed, eds. Afro-American Anthropology: Contemporary Perspectives. New York: Free Press, "Alphabetical author list... includes many on folklore, dialectology, religious cults, carnival, folk tales, calypso, social and cultural pluralism" (Jordan and Comissiong, 44). Wilkinson, Audine C. Bibliography of the Caribbean. Barbados: Institute of Social and Economic Research, Sources available in Library of the Institute of Social and Economic Research (Eastern Caribbean) including books, monographs, articles, government and non-government documents. Territories covered are Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, British Virgin Islands, Cuba, Dominican Republic, French West Indies, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Leeward Islands, Windward Islands, Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela. Zimmerman, Irene. "Some Notes on Caribbean Bibliography and Bibliographers." The Caribbean in Transition. F.M. Andic and T.G. Mathews, eds. Institute of Caribbean Studies. Rio Piedras: University of Puerto Rico,

5 A 1965 review of bibliographies, libraries, and collections in the Caribbean. Notes contain names of archives and librarians. The following are items that have been located but not annotated. Annotations to be added on next update and incorporated into the above bibliography. Archibald, F.A., ed. Methodism and Literature: Series of Articles from Several Writers on the Literary Enterprise and Achievements of the Methodist Episcopal Church with a Catalogue of Select Books for the Home, the Church and the Sunday School. New York: Phillips & Hunt, Baker, Edward Cecil. Guide to Records in the Leeward Islands. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, Bloomfield, Valerie. "The Bibliography of the English Speaking Caribbean Islands in Seminar on Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials." Windward, Leeward and Main: Caribbean Studies and Library Resources: Final Report and Working Papers of the XXILVth Seminar. Madison, Wisconsin, Bonser, W., ed., A Bibliography of Folklore for Vol Folklore Society, Cawter, E.C., Helm, A. and Peacock, N., eds. English Ritual Drama: A Geographical Index. London: Folk-Lore Society, Goslinga, Marian. A Bibliography of the Caribbean. Scarecrow Area Bibliographies, No. 8. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow, Highfield, Arnold R. and Tyson, George F., eds. Slavery in the Danish West Indies: A Bibliography. St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands: The Virgin Islands Humanities Council, Hill, Robert A., ed. Catalogue of West Indian Reference Library: The Caribbean Historical and Cultural Perspectives. Vol. 6v. Millwood, New York: Krauss International Hogg, Peter. The African Slave Trade and Its Suppression: A Classified and Annotated Bibliography of Books, Pamphlets and Periodical Articles. London: Frank Cass, Ingram, Kenneth E. Manuscripts Relating to the Commonwealth Caribbean Countries in United States and Canadian Repositories. Epping, England: Caribbean Universities Press, 1975.

6 ---Sources of Jamaican History, A Bibliographical Survey with Particular Reference to Manuscript Sources. Epping, England: Caribbean Universities Press, Sources of West Indian Studies: A Supplementary Listing with Particular Reference to Manuscript Sources. Zurich, Switzerland: n.p., Manhattan Community College. Selected Bibliography of Afro-Caribbean Materials. New York, New York: n.p., 1980 [1970]. Naylor, Bernard, Hallewell, Laurence and Steele, Colin, eds. Directory of Libraries and Special Collections on Latin America and the West Indies. London: Athlone Press, Ryman, Cheryl. Annotated Jonnkunnu Bibliography: A Pan-African Interdisciplinary Bibliography with Subject and Specialist References. Antioch International, Simpson, Jacqueline and Roud, Stephen, eds. An Index to the Journal of Folklore, Volumes ( ). Hisarlik Press, Thomas-Hope, Elizabeth M. "Caribbean Resources in the United Kingdom." Caribbean Studies and Library Resources. Windward, Leeward and Main: Madison, Wisconsin, "The Caribbean in British Education: Teaching and Research on the Caribbean in the United Kingdom." Caribbean Studies and Library Resources. Windward, Leeward and Main: Madison, Wisconsin, Wilkinson, Audine. Grenada: A Select Bibliography: A Guide to Material Available in Barbados. October 2007