About this Exhibit
Funding
During the fall semester of 2023, work for this exhibit was funded by an internship grant from Yale University, the Yale Graduate Impact Fellowship, and work was performed under the guidance of Dr. M. Stephanie Chancy at the University of Florida Libraries and the Digital Library of the Caribbean.
Site maintenance and hosting are paid for by René Kooiker.
Contributors
René Johannes Kooiker
After undergraduate studies in Amherst and ENS Paris, René Kooiker joined the Department of Comparative Literature at Yale University in 2019. He specializes in 20th-century Caribbean literature in English, Dutch, French, and Spanish. As a PhD candidate, he is finishing a dissertation on the cultural-literary history of the Caribbean 1970s, focused on the CARIFESTA festivals between 1972 and 1981.
His personal website and resume can be found here.
See selected publications here.
Acknowledgements
Many thanks to Lorna Goodison and Honor Ford-Smith for sharing personal CARIFESTA stories.
Thanks to Dr. M. Stephanie Chancy, Dr. Lourdes Santamaría-Wheeler, Katiana Bagué, and Sarah Tew at the Digital Library of the Caribbean and the University of Florida Libraries for feedback, technical assistance with site development, and scanning sources.
Thanks to the Yale Caribbean Studies community for feedback and suggestions.
Rights
This site is for educational and research purposes only.
Images and videos personally scanned or downloaded from repositories and archives held by the Digital Library of the Caribbean, the Errol G. Hill Papers at the Rauner Special Collections Library at Dartmouth College, the Jan Carew Rynveld Papers at the University of Louisville, the Barbados Ephemera Collection at UCLA, the George Padmore Institute, Yale University Library, the Banyan Archive, the Schomburg Center archives at the New York Public Library, the Brill collection of primary source documents on Cuban Culture and Cultural Relations, and the ProQuest Women’s Magazine Archive.
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