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Contents:Introduction / Bruce King --The background / Rhonda Cobham --The beginnings to 1929 / Anthony Boxill --The thirties and forties / Reinhard W. Sander --The fifties / Sandra Pouchet Paquet --Since 1960: some highlights / Edward Baugh --Edgar Mittelholzer / Michael Gilkes --Samuel Selvon / Michel Fabre --George Lamming / Ian Munro --Derek Walcott / Mervyn Morris --V.S. Naipaul / Bruce King --Wilson Harris / Hena Maes-Jelinek --Jean Rhys / Cheryl M.L. Dash --Edward Brathwaite / J. Michael Dash.