Voices of the Crossing

Table of Contents Preface

Introduction

Taking the Drawing Room Through Customs

Deep Roots, New Language

Waltzing Across Four and a Half Decades

Journeys without Maps

Becoming a Caribbean Man

West Indian Writers in Britain

A Writer in Exile

Changes of Scenery

Crossing Boundaries

In Search of a Talisman

Liars, Hypocrites, Imperialists and Sages

The Vernacular Cosmopolitan

Ancestors I Carry

Speaking in Tongues

Afterword

Biographical Notes