"Popular" and "Literary" Caribbean Historical Fiction by Valerie Belgrave and David Dabydeen.

This essay compares the ways two very different Caribbean historical novels explore different types of historical truth through their contrasting approaches to historical "facts." The first is Valerie Belgrade's Ti Marie (1988), set mostly in Trinidad during the years 1777 to 1803. Widely considered...

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Published in:	Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism Vol. 30; no. 1; pp. 15 - 27
Main Author:	Jackson, Elizabeth
Format:	Literary Criticism
Published:	Duke University Press Mar2026
Subjects:	Historical fiction Historicity Authors Caribbean literature Unskilled labor Plantations 21st century (Literary period) India Caribbean Trinidad & Tobago Guyana
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