As this year's list of published works shows, CAribbean literature is expanding in new and exiciting ways, New York from the first generations of canonical writers continues to be fresh and surprising, reflecting diverse literary, cultural and linguistic influences. A growing body of literature from the Caribbean diaspora adds new dimensions to notions of a caribbean identity and literary representations of caribbean time, place and space. The double commonwealth' status of caribbean-canadian literay culture provides a fertile soil in which to reconfigure familiar themes of un/beloging, exile, hybridity and the call of home. As well as reflecting these more generic 'postcolonial' issues, Caribbean literature defines itself within a distincly Caribbean tradition, re-voicing, interrogating.
