Bibliography

New Editions

Walrond, Eric. In Search of Asylum: The Later Writings of Eric Walrond: The Later Writings of Eric Walrond. Edited by Louis J. Parascandola and Carl A. Wade, University Press of Florida, 2017. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bu/detail.action?docID=4877912.

—. Winds Can Wake Up the Dead: An Eric Walrond Reader. Wayne State University Press, 1998.

Contexts – Language, Dialect, and Creolization

Allsopp, Richard, ed. Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage. University of the West Indies Press, 2003.

Chancé, Dominique. “Creolization: Definition and Critique.” Trans. Julin Everett. The Creolization of Theory. Ed. Françoise Lionnet and Shu-mei Shih. Duke University Press, 2011. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822393320-013

Collis-Buthelezi, Victoria J. “Caribbean Regionalism, South Africa, and Mapping New World Studies.” Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, vol. 19, no. 1 (46), Mar. 2015, pp. 37–54. Silverchair, https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2873332.

Edwards, Brent Hayes. The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism. Harvard University Press, 2003.

Green, Jonathon. Green’s Dictionary of Slang. 2023. https://greensdictofslang.com.

Jarrett, Gene Andrew. “The Dialect of New Negro Literature.” A Companion to African American Literature. Ed. Gene Andrew Jarrett. Wiley-Blackwell, 2013. 169-184.

Knepper, Wendy. “Colonization, Creolization, and Globalization: The Art and Ruses of Bricolage.” Small Axe https://doi.org/10.1353/smx.2006.0038.

OED Editorial Board. “An Introduction to Caribbean English.” The OED Blog. The Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford University Press, 9 Sept. 2021. https://public.oed.com/blog/an-introduction-to-caribbean-english/.

Van Patten, Nathan. “The Vocabulary of the American Negro as Set Forth in Contemporary Literature.” American Speech, vol. 7, no. 1, 1931, pp. 24–31, https://doi.org/10.2307/451310.

Brathwaite, Edward Kamau. History of the Voice: The Development of Nation Language in Anglophone Caribbean Poetry. New Beacon, 1984.

Contexts – Harlem

Davis, James. Eric Walrond: A Life in the Harlem Renaissance and the Transatlantic Caribbean. Columbia University Press, 2015.

Digital Harlem: Everyday Life, 1915-1930. http://digitalharlem.org/. Accessed 6 Oct. 2021.

Farebrother, Rachel. “‘The Congo Is Flooding the Acropolis’: Art, ‘Exhibits,’ and the Intercultural in the New Negro Renaissance.” Modernism/Modernity, vol. 26, no. 4, 2019, pp. 753–83.

Smethurst, James. “London, New York, and the Black Bolshevik Renaissance: Radical Black Internationalism during the New Negro Renaissance.” A History of the Harlem Renaissance. Ed. Rachel Farebrother and Miriam Thaggert. Cambridge University Press, 2021. 195-210.

Criticism

Bone, Robert A., and Louis J. Parascandola. “An Ellis Island of the Soul: Eric Walrond and the Turbulent Passage from Garveyite to New Negro.” Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, vol. 34, no. 2, July 2010, pp. 34–54.

Brittan, Jennifer. “The Terminal: Eric Walrond, the City of Colón, and the Caribbean of the Panama Canal.” American Literary History, vol. 25, no. 2, 2013, pp. 294–316.

Brown, J. Dillon. “Escaping the Tropics Through New York: Eric Walrond and Claude McKay in the American Grain.” The Global South, vol. 7, no. 2, 2013, pp. 37–61. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2979/globalsouth.7.2.37.

Charras, Françoise. “Writing on the External Frontiers of the Caribbean: Eric Walrond and Vernon Anderson.” GRAAT: Groupe de Recherches Anglo-Américaines de Tours, vol. 27, 2003, pp. 245–66.

Feinsod, Harris. “Canal Zone Modernism: Cendrars, Walrond, and Stevens at the ‘Suction Sea.’” English Language Notes, vol. 57, no. 1, Apr. 2019, pp. 116–28. Silverchair, https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-7309721.

Niblett, Michael. “The Arc of the ‘Other America’: Landscape, Nature, and Region in Eric Walrond’s Tropic Death.” Perspectives on the “Other America”: Comparative Approaches to Caribbean and Latin American Culture, edited by Michael Niblett and Kerstin Oloff, Brill Academic Publishers, 2009, pp. 51–72.

Owens, Imani D. “‘Hard Reading’: US Empire and Black Modernist Aesthetics in Eric Walrond’s Tropic Death.” MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S., vol. 41, no. 4, 2016, pp. 96–115.

Parascandola, Louis J., et al. “Eric Walrond and the Varying Dynamics of White Patronage During the Harlem Renaissance.” The Langston Hughes Review, vol. 24/25, 2010, pp. 103–11.

Parascandola, Louis J., and Carl A. Wade. Eric Walrond: The Critical Heritage. University of the West Indies Press, 2012.

Parascandola, Louis, and Maria McGarrity. “‘I’m A… Naughty Girl’: Prostitution and Outsider Women in James Joyce’s ‘The Boarding House’ and Eric Walrond’s ‘The Palm Porch.’” CLA Journal, vol. 50, no. 2, Dec. 2006, pp. 141–61.

Park, Stephen M. “Haunting the Plantation: The Global Southern Gothic in Eric Walrond’s Tropic Death.” Southern Quarterly, vol. 55, no. 4, Summer 2018, pp. 70–90.

Pedersen, Carl. “The Caribbean Voices of Claude McKay and Eric Walrond.” The Cambridge Companion to The Harlem Renaissance, edited by George Hutchinson, Cambridge University Press, 2007, pp. 184–97.

Pla, Valeria Grinberg. “El Tránsito Como Estrategia de Vida y de Literatura: El Proyecto Literario Transnacional En Resistencia de Los Intelectuales Afrocaribeños Eric Walrond, Claude McKay y Samuel Nation.” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, vol. 54, no. 1, 2020, pp. 49–72. DOI.org (Crossref), https://doi.org/10.1353/rvs.2020.0008.

Ramchand, Kenneth. “The Writer Who Ran Away: Eric Walrond and Tropic Death.” Savacou: A Journal of the Caribbean Artists Movement, vol. 2, 1970, pp. 67–75.

Ritter, Luis Pulido. “The Panama Canal in the Work of Eric Walrond and Joaquín Beleño: Counterpoint between the Caribbean Diaspora and the Panamanian Nation.” Caribbeing: Comparing Caribbean Literatures and Cultures, edited by Kristian van Haesendonck and Theo D’haen, Brill Academic Publishers, 2014, pp. 59–77.

Wade, Carl A. “African-American Aesthetics and the Short Fiction of Eric Walrond: ‘Tropic Death’ and the Harlem Renaissance.” CLA Journal, vol. 42, no. 4, 1999, pp. 403–29.

Walsh, Louise. “Dracula and Tropic Death.” Caribbean Quarterly, vol. 64, no. 3/4, Sept. 2018, pp. 521–43.