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VOL. 30 NO. 1 MARCH, 1984

CARIBBEAN QUARTERLY

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iii FOREWORD

1 The Journey to the Light of Anthony McNeill's Credences at the Altar of Cloud Fernanda Steele

23 Poetics of Self: Dennis Scott's Dangerous Style Ian Smith *

33 Helen & the Tempest -Negre: Rene Depestre's^l Rainbow for the Christian West Edward Kamau Brathwaite

48 Interview: Dennis Scott Talking to Mervyn Morris

50 Anthony McNeill on Credences at the Altar of Cloud - An Interview Fernanda Steele

POEMS

60 Parable III Velma Pollard

60 For the Great House at Aguaita Vale

Doreen O'Connor

BOOK REVIEWS

Notes on Contributors

Instructions to Authors

Books Received

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NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

Fernanda Steele

Ian Smith

Edward Kamau Brathwaite

Mervyn Morris

Velma Pollard

Doreen O'Connor

Howard Fergus

Samuel S. Bandara

J. Michael Dash

wrote her doctorate on Juan Carlos Onetti. She has written and published several papers on Caribbean Literature in Spanish and English, and Translated the novel "Pisar los dedos de Dios" by Dominican Republic Writer, Andres L. Mateo. She is at present free lance interpreter and trans- lator in Spanish and Italian.

was lecturer at the Department of English, U.W.I. He is writing his doctorate at Columbia University New York.

well-known poet, historian, educator, publisher and editor, is Professor of Social and Cultural History in the Depart- ment of History, University of the West Indies, Mona.

poet and writer himself, is senior lecturer in the Depart- ment of English, University of the West Indies, Mona.

is lecturer at the Department of Educational Studies of the Faculty of Education, University of the West Indies, Mona. She is poet and anthologist of several publications.

is a graduate of the University of the West Indies and currently working in St Lucia.

Resident tutor in the Department of Extra-Mural Studies, Montserrat, and also author, historian and educator, and a poet in his own right.

is a charge of the Aquisitions Department of the Library of the University of the West Indies. He has published widely concerning the status of publications, anthologies and bibli- ographies in the West Indies.

is Head of the Department of French and German at the University of the West Indies, Mona.

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