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Poets & Writers interviews Puerto Rican writer Claudia Acevedo-Quiñones, author of the debut novel The Hurricane Book: A Lyric History. [Many thanks to Peter Jordens for bringing this item to our attention. Also see previous post New: The Hurricane Book.] Here are excerpts: This week’s installment of Ten Questions features Claudia Acevedo-Quiñones, whose debut, The Hurricane Book:…
Princeton awarded honorary degrees during its 2023 Commencement ceremony to Lynn A. Conway, Arcadio Díaz-Quiñones, Rhiannon Giddens, Suzan Shown Harjo, and Katalin Karikó.
Caribbean literature, literary works of the Caribbean area written in Spanish, French, or English. The literature of the Caribbean has no indigenous tradition. The pre-Columbian American Indians left few rock carvings or inscriptions (petroglyphs), and their oral traditions did not survive 16th-century Spanish colonization. The West Africans who replaced them were also without a written tradition, so for about 400 years Caribbean literature was an offshoot and imitation of the models of the colonial powers—Spain, France, Great Britain, and the Netherlands. Caribbean writers, however, were n...