Vol. 4. No. 2 October 2001
Tel. Ext. 3363
e-mail: hummail@library.uwi.tt
EDITORIAL:
The Florida International University
African–New
World
Studies
Distinguished African Scholars Lecture
Series held its third annual Eric
Williams Memorial Lecture on Friday
26th October, 2001 at the Wertheim
Performing
Arts Centre, Miami,
Florida. The Guest Lecturer was ProVice Chancellor Hilary Beckles. He
spoke on the theme:- “The Global
Politics of Reparation: Before and after
Durban”.
It is now common knowledge that yet
again one of our West Indian Greats
has been awarded a Nobel Prize. This
time round, and deservedly so, is the
turn of Sir Vidiadhar Naipaul. To mark
the occasion the Humanities Division
mounted a display in honour of Sir
Vidia. The hope is cherished that we
will continue to benefit from the end
product of Sir Vidia’s creative
imagination. Our congratulations go to
him and his family. In this issue we
present a short chronology of V.S.
Naipaul.
Congratulations also go to
Dr.
Roydon Salick, Senior Lecturer in the
Department of Liberal Arts, on the
publication of his book entitled: The
novels of Sammuel Selvon: a critical
study. A new interpretation of Selvon’s
achievement, this book looks, for the
first time, at his works in terms of
categories of novels – peasant, middle
class, and immigrant. It is published
by Greenwood Press whose website is:
www.greenwood.com
The
Department
of
Language,
Linguistics and Literature at Cave Hill
has two films that might be of interest to
some Faculty members. They are:

Sargasso: A Caribbean love
story; a dramatized version of
Jean Rhys’s novel Wild Sargasso
Sea.
It is produced by
Guyanese
writer/director
Michael Gilkes.
A documentary on Wilson Harris,
interviewed by Michael Gilkes and
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including dramatic reconstructions of
excerpts from Harris’s writing in the
landscape of Guyana itself.
Those interested in acquiring copies of
these films should contact Dr. M. Jane
Bryce,
e-mail:jbryce@uwichill.edu.bb.
The society for Caribbean Studies (UK)
is awarding a travel bursary, maximum
£500, plus full conference fees, to
enable an arts practioner/researcher
from any part of the Caribbean to
present their work at the Society’s
annual conference. Applications must
be received by January 15th, 2002.
For further information please e-mail:
s.e.courtman@staffs.ac.uk.
R. CLARKE
Editor
Call No. Subject Area
Amount
PA
Greek/Latin
Language and
Literature
PB, -PE
Celtic/Romanic/
Germanic Language
PG
Russian /Spanish
Language Literature
PJ,PK
Oriental Language
and Literature
PL
African Language
and Literature
PM
Creole/Indian
Language
PN
Literary Criticism,
Mass Media
PQ
French Language
and Literature
PR
English and West
Indian Literature
PS - PZ
American Literature &
European Literature
Z4- Z8387 Library Science
Z
Bibliographies
Internet
Total:-
ACQUISITIONS for the month of October
totalled 173 TITLES in the following
subject areas:Call No. Subject Area
AC
B-BD;
BG-BJ
BL-BX
CC
D-DP
DS
DT
E
F
L
M
N
P
Amount
General Information
1
Philosophy
Religion
Archaeology
European History
Eastern History
African History
North American
History
South/Central
America and
Caribbean History
Education
Music
Visual Arts
Linguistics
5
7
4
4
6
7
5
25
19
4
5
-
5
3
9
13
22
8
19
2 ZA
173
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Interesting TITLES included:
Alive at the core. Exemplary
approach to general education
in the Humanities /by Michael
Nelson and Associates, 2000
“The Humanities core is back from
the dead. Indeed, it is vibrant at
increasing numbers of institutions
that take seriously, and not just as a
cliché, what it means to prepare
students for ‘living in the twentyfirst century’.”
[Call No.: AZ 183.US A45 2000]
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
Caste and Class in India in the late
20th Century/ by Solomon Selvam,
2000.

“Seeks to highlight some of the
most complex, historical issues of a
traditional and changing society,
the confluence of caste and class
forces in India.”
“Whilst there are numerous
histories of Europe since 1945, few
examine the continent from a mainly
ethnic perspective. The coverage
encompasses all categories of
minorities including immigrants and
refugees, localized ethnic groups
and dispersed peoples.”
[Call No.: DS 422.C S355 2000]

Chinese Literature in the second
half of a modern century. A
critical survey /edited by PangYuan Chi and David Der-Wei Wang,
2000
[Call No.: D1056. P36 2000]

“The first attempt of its kind, this
book features the work of renowned
scholars from China, Taiwan, Hong
Kong and other overseas Chinese
communities. The fifteen essays
herein represent fifteen entry points
to the complex network of Chinese
literature since 1949.”
Colonial Latin America 4th edition /
by Mark A. Burkholder and Lyman
L. Johnson, 2001.
“Provides a concise study of the
history of Iberian colonies in the
New World from their preconquest
background to the wars of
independence
in
the
early
nineteenth century.”
[Call No.: F1412.B96 2001]
Novels and the nation. Essays in
Canadian Literature / by Frank
Birbalsingh 1995.
In eighteen essays Frank
Birbalsingh “discusses the evolution
of Canadian identity and nationhood
as reflected, predominantly, in the
English fiction of this country, from
the writings of the first British
expatriates, through the colonial,
empire-conscious works of the
nineteenth century, to the strongly
nationalistic literary consciousness
of the mid-twentieth century and
finally the contemporary works of a
multi-cultural country continuously
transforming itself”.
[Call No.: PL 2303. C42 646 2000]

An ethnic history of Europe
since 1945. Nations, states and
minorities /by Panikos Panayi,
2000
[Call No.: PR 9192.2.B57 1995]

The shape of the Great Pyramid
/by Roger Herz-Fischler, 2000.
“Starting in the late eighteenth
century, eleven main theories were
proposed to explain the shape of
the Great Pyramid. The theories
themselves are examined, not as
abstract mathematical discourses,
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but as writings by individual
authors, both well-known and
obscure, who were influenced by
the intellectual and social climate of
their time.”
and the press with leaders who
helped to change the world.”
[Call No.: PN 6122.W66 2000]
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[Call No.: DT 63.H47 2000]
 Through a black veil. Readings in
French Caribbean poetry / by E.
Anthony Hurley, 2000
“An investigation of the diverse
poetic manifestations of a sensibility
that may be designated as ‘French
Caribbean’, through close reading
of a representative sample of
poems.”
New issues of the following JOURNALS
contain important and helpful articles:
The Cambridge Quarterly
Vol. 30, No 3, 2001
In this issue you will find: -
“Symbolisation
compulsions:
Freud, African Literature and
South Africa’s process of truth
and reconciliation” by Ato
Quayson
-
“Whatever
happened
to
pleasure?” by Susan Manning
-
“Not with a bang but a whimper:
Lucy Clifford’s correspondence,
1919-1929” by Marysa Demoor
[Call No.: PQ3942.H87 2000]

Understanding Othello.
A
student casebook to issues,
sources
and
historical
documents / by Faith Nostbakken,
2000.
“By combining primary documents
with commentary, this guide considers
many theatrical, cultural, social, and
political concerns at the core of
Othello.”
[Call No.: PR 2829.N65 2000]

Women
at
the
podium.
Memorable speeches in history/
by S. Michele Nix, 2000.
“From the battlefield and the pulpit,
before cameras and vast crowds,
women have long shaped history
with powerful, impassioned words.
Women at the podium pairs issues
of war, patriotism, social justice,
women’s rights, religion, politics,
[Call No. PN 80 C178 Q1]

French Studies Vol. LV, No. 3, July
2001.
In this issue you will find: - “Du discours insolite: le discours
indirect sans que” by Sophie
Marnette
-
“Reflexivity in the Pensees:
Pascal’s discourse on discourse”
by Emma Gilby
-
“Diderot’s ‘Promenade Vernet’,
or the salon as landscape
garden” by Kate E. Tunstall
[Call No. PQ1 .F6]
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
International Review of Applied
Linguistics
in
Language
Teaching. Vol.39, No.3, 2001

Journal of World History. Vol. 12,
No. 2, Fall 2001
-
In “Cross-cultural perceptions of
piracy: maritime violence in the
Western Indian Ocean and
Persian Gulf Region during a
long
eighteenth
century”,
Patricia Risso defines maritime
violence
as
“indiscriminate
seizure of seaborne or coastal
property, under threat or use of
force,” and then applies the
definitions to disputed incidents
in the Arabian Sea and Persian
Gulf region.
-
Sheldon Watts identifies a sharp
shift in cholera policies in British
India in “From rapid change to
stasis: official responses to
cholera in British-ruled India and
Egypt, 1860-1921.”
In this issue you will find:-
“Investigating learner
vocabulary: a possible approach
to looking at EFL/ESL learners’
qualitative knowledge of the
word.” By Eric T.K. Liu and Phil
M. Shaw
-
“Where have the prepositions
gone?
A study of English
prepositional verbs and input
enhancement in instructed SLA”
by Rong-Rong Kao
-
“From
Linguistics
to
communications didactics: the
case of lexicology” by Bertrand
Labasse
[Call No. P5.I5]

The Journal of Asian Studies Vol.
60, No. 2, May 2001
In this issue you will find:-
“Samurai status, class and
bureaucracy: a historiographical
essay” by Douglas R. Howland
-
“Genesis of marriage among the
Moso and empire-building in
late imperial China” by ChuanKang Shih
-
“The marginalisation of a Dalit
martial race in late nineteenth
and
early twentieth-century
Western
India”
by
Philip
Constable
[Call No. DS1.J86 A8]
[Call No. D1.J62]

Kunapipi. Journal of post-colonial
writing. Vol. XXXIII, No. 1, 2001
This issue is dedicated
Rutherford
(1932-2001),
editor of Kunapipi.
-
to Anna
founding
“Sport lay close to the heart of
British imperial culture.” Marilyn
Reizbaum in “An Empire of good
Sports: Roger Casement, the
Boer War, and James Joyce’s
Ulysses” tells us that “sport is
performative in any number of
grammatical ways: it is a noun in
two senses, not only to do with
physical practice but spiritual
mettle; it is a verb – the donning
of clothing or attitude; it is both
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adjectivally
and
characterological;”
-
nominally

“Pauline Johnson [the wellknown
Indian
poetess]
is
remembered principally as a
recitalist whose stage career was
pursued with enormous energy
and remarkable good humour,
not only throughout Canada, but
also in the US and England,
during the last decade of the 19th
and first decade of the 20th
centuries.” So says Ann Collett
in E. Pauline Tekahionwake:
mistress of her craft.”
Modern Language Quarterly. A
Journal of Literary history. Vol. 62,
No. 3, September 2001
-
“What good are newspapers to
poets? What good are poets to
newspapers?”
These are
questions that Julie Ellison sets
out to answer in “News, Blues
and Cowper’s busy world”.
-
“The secular curriculum Lanson
helped to establish promoted a
pedagogy that transmitted a set
of dispositions toward literature
from teachers to students, and
the effects of that pedagogy
deserve closer scrutiny.”
So
argues
Mark
Wolff
in
“Individuality
and
l’Esprit
Francais: on Gustav Lanson’s
pedagogy”.
[Call No. PR 9080.A1 K96]

Lingua. Vol. III, No.10, October
2001
-
-
In “Concealed pseudo-clefts,”
Ileana Paul argues that “the Cleft
in Malagasy, a western
Austronesian language, is best
analysed as a (kind of) pseudocleft and that clefts are copular
constructions with a headless
relative in subject position.”
In “Compounding and inflecting
language impairment: evidence
from Williams Syndrome (and
SLI),” Harald Clahsen and
Mayella Abmazan tell us that
“computational operations from
a finite set of (typically)
combinatorial mechanisms that
may apply recursively and
manipulate abstract symbols
such as [±V] or grammatical
features such as tense, person,
number, etc.”
[Call No. P1. A1 l755]
[Call No. PE1M6]

Studies in English 1500 - 1900.
Vol. 4, No.3, Summer, 2001.
-
Nahdini Bhattacharya contends
in “ James Cobb, colonial
cacophony
and
the
Enlightenment” that “through
the lens of postcolonial story
telling, we see that Cobb’s tales
of colonial reformers anticipate,
albeit with different political
intent, the ongoing torment of
the Enlightenment’s bequest to
postcolonial nationality.”
-
In “Change and fixity in Sense
and Sensibility”, Rodney S.
Edgecombe
tells
us
that
“approaching the topic of trees
from several angles, and with an
ironised commitment that both
endorses and mocks in the
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breath, Austen all but fulfills a
central
dictum
of
the
picturesque,
viz.,
that
picturesque
composition
consists in uniting in one whole a
variety of parts.”
1960:
He begins travels to places
such as India, SouthAmerica,
Africa,
Iran,
Pakistan Malaysia, and the
US.
1957:
The Mystic Masseur. For
which he received the John
Llewelyn Rhys Memorial
prize
1958:
The Suffrage of Elivira.
1959:
Miguel Street. For which
he received the Somerset
Maugham Award.
1961:
A House for Mr. Biswas
(received grant from the
Trinidad government to
travel in the Caribbean).
1962:
The
Middle
Passage;
Impressions of five societies
– British, French and Dutch
– in the West Indies and
South America.
1963:
Mr. Stone and the Knights
Companion.
1964:
An Area of Darkness.
1967:
The Mimic Men, a flag on
the Island (a collection of
short stories).
1968:
Receives W.H. Smith Award
for The Mimic Men.
Caribbean Voices.
1969:
The Loss of El Dorado.
Marries an English woman –
Patricia Ann Hale.
1971:
In a Free State (receives
Booker Prize, England’s
major literary award).
[Call No. PR 401 A1 S8]
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V.S.NAIPAUL
A Chronology
1932:
Born on August 17th in
Chaguanas, Trinidad, to a
family of Brahmin origin.
His father (Seepersad) was
a Journalist (1906-1953).
1943-1948: Attended
College
Queens
Royal
1948:
Awarded
a
Trinidad
Government Scholarship.
1950:
Attended
University
College, Oxford, England
to study literature.
1953:
Graduate
form
University.
Oxford
1954-1956: Broadcaster for the BBC’s
1955:
1957–1961: Regular fiction reviewer for
the New Statesman.
1972:
The Overcrowded Barracoon
and Other Articles.
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1975:
Guerillas.
1977:
India: A Wounded Civilization.
1979:
A Bend in the River
1980:
A Congo Diary; the Return of
Eva Peron, the Killings in
Trinidad.
1981:
1982:
2001:
Among the Believers:
Islamic Journey.
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1984:
Finding the
Narratives.
1987:
The Enigma of Arrival; A
novel in Five Sections.
1989:
A Turn in the South.
(Knighted by Her Majesty the
Queen).
India: A Million Mutinies
Now.
1993:
The first recipient of the
David
Cohen
British
Literature Prize
1994:
A Way in the World.
1998:
Beyond
Belief:
Islamic
Excursions
Among
the
Converted Peoples.
2000:
Reading and Writing a
Personal Account, Between
Father and Son: Family
Letters.
Half a Life
For the month of October, the Library
received 54 new books. These
include:
Two
1990:
2001:
Features from the School of
Education Library.
An
Three Novels (The Mystic
Masseur, The Suffrage of
Elvira, Miguel Street).
Centre:
Awarded The Nobel Prize
For Literature.
Challenging violence in schools:
An issue of masculinities/Martin
Mills. Open University Press, 2001.
[Call No. LB 3013.3 M55 2001]

Restructuring religious, spiritual
and moral education/ Clive
Erricker and Jane Erricker.
Routledge/Falmer, 2000.
[Call No. BL 42 .E75 2000]

Science instruction in the middle
and secondary schools/Eugene L.
Chiapppelta. Merril/Prentice Hall,
2001.
[Call No. Q 183. A1 C637
2001]

Surviving and succeeding in
difficult
classrooms/Paul
Blum.
Routledge/Falmer, 1998.
[Call No. LC 4803. G7 B58.
1998]
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
Teaching and learning with ICT in
the primary school/edited by
Marilyn Leask and John Meadows.
Routledge/Falmer 2000.
[Call No. LB 1028.5 T382
2000]

Thinking and deciding/Jonathon
Baron. Cambidge University Press,
2000
[Call No. BF 441 . B 29 200]
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INTERESTING ARTICLES
IN JOURNALS
1. Unified discipline: A school-wide
approach for managing problem
behaviour. Richard White et al.
Intervention Vol. 37, No. 1, Sept.
2001
Teachers are concerned about
the growing inclusion of students
with emotional and behavioral
problems in general education
classrooms and the increasing
level of diversity common in
schools. Proactive, school-wide
approaches are considered best
practice in addressing the
challenge
of
maintaining
discipline. Unified discipline is a
promising
school
wide
intervention designed to support
administrators, teachers and
other school personnel in
meeting
these
needs
by
establishing unified attitudes,
expectations,
correction
procedures, and team roles.
This article explains how to
implement unified discipline as
a school-wide approach to
managing problem behaviour.
2. What
teachers
need
to
be/Robert E. Glenn.
The Education Digest Vol. 67,
No. 1, Sept. 2001
This article gives a checklist of
what a teacher must do for
effective teaching. The checklist
is
as
follows:exhibit
enthusiasm, know your content,
be organized, teach actively,
show a good attitude, establish
successful
classroom
management, pace instruction,
maintain good people skills,
communicate clearly, question
effectively,
differentiate
instruction, build success into
your
class,
hold
high
expectations, create a pleasant
atmosphere, be flexible.
3. Transformational leadership in
the health promoting school/
Michelle Hornett
Orbit Vol. 31, No. 2 2001.
The author of this article feels
that the leadership skills of a
principal has a direct impact on
the ‘health’ of the school. She
writes “… schools where
high
levels of teacher turnover and
teacher frustration are apparent
are also schools where little
sense of community exists and
where
teachers
feel
overwhelmingly unsupported as
individuals or as professionals”.
On the other hand, the author
feels that a school which has a
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healthy
school
climate
is
invariably
run
by
a
transformational leader – a
leader who shares a vision of the
school with staff and students,
treats all with respect and care,
establishes a relationship with
staff and students, supports
teachers and their goals and
always has a listening ear.
4. Mentoring taps talents
Education Update Vol. 43, No. 6
Sept, 2001
This
article
looks
at
student/adult mentoring.
It
examines the benefits of such
programmes
claiming
that
“school-supported mentoring is
a success-based strategy to help
young people develop selfesteem and personal growth”.
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Things of Interest to
Teachers and Educators
WEBSITE OF INTEREST
hptt://www.4teachers.org
This site provides a space where
educators can encounter new ideas
about technology’s role in education,
express their opinions and share
experiences, get and give moral
support, and be inspired and educated
by other teachers’ narratives about
using technology in educational
settings
hptt://www.copyrightcentral.org
For those interested in copyright laws,
this website gives general information.
DISPLAYS
The Library continued its “Hot Topics”
display for the month of October.
Books were displayed on the following
topics:- Education and Technology,
Professional Development, Curriculum
and Home/School Relations.
The Library also did a display on the
life and works of V.S. Naipaul, to
commemorate his award of the Nobel
Prize for Literature, 2001
OTHER INFORMATION
The Editorial Committee of Caribbean
Curriculum is once again calling for
articles for its next issue to be
published in 2002. Interested persons
can contact the Librarian/Documentalist
of the School of Education at 662-2002
Ext.3338.
Janet Fullerton-Rawlins (Mrs.)
Librarian/Documentalist