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The Nation/The Imaginary Reading List
Last updated May 3, 2024
Explore a curated list of literary works that connect to themes in our current exhibition. Titles with asterisks are available for purchase in our Museum Store!
- No Vacancy in Paradise (2001), Patricia Glinton-Meicholas
- “The Dreamers”, found in If I had the Wings (2017), Helen Klonaris
- How to be A True-True Bahamian (1994), Patricia Glinton-Meicholas*
- “The Impossible Garden” found in WomanSpeak Journal (2012), Lynn Sweeting
- “Sonnet for the Moon” found in WomanSpeak Journal (2012) Lynn Sweeting
- Gun Boys Rapsody (2015), Ian Strachan*
- Woman Take Two (1987), Telcine Turner-Rolle
- “Ghost in Mr. Pratt’s House” by Toinette Major, found in Once Below a Time, (1988) edited by Telcine Turner-Rolle
- “How the Bahamas Became an Archipelago” by Pamela Carey, found in Once Below a Time, (1988) edited by Telcine Turner-Rolle
- “How Brer Rabby tricked Brer Lion”, found in Once Below a Time (1988), Telcine Turner-Rolle
- Pulling the Wings from Out my Back, (2017), Letitia Marie Pratt
- Discovery Daze (2011), Obediah Michael Smith
- “With My Sheep-Tongue Souse” found in Yinna, Vol. 1 (2000), Obediah Michael Smith
- Blue (2022), Tanicia Pratt *
- Mama Lily and the Dead (2010), Nicolette Bethel
- Running the Dusk (2010), Christian Campbell
- A True and Exact History of the Island of Barbados(1657), Richard Ligon
- Guanahani, My Love (2009), Marion Bethel
- Bougainvilla Ringplay (2010), Marion Bethel
- “Lady Dorothy’s Cash Garden”, found in WomanSpeak Journal (2012), Margot Bethel
- “So Immense a Thing” found in WomanSpeak Journal (2018), Marie Sairsignh
- Folk-Tales of Andros Island, Bahamas (1918). Various Authors, compiled by Elsie Clews Parsons
- “The Gaulin Wife” found in An Evening in Guanima(1993), Patricia Glinton-Meicholas
- An Olive Branch (2020), Yasmin Glinton-Poiter*
- Bain Town (2007), Cleavland W. Eneas
- “Riding out the Storm with the One-Armed Man” (2019), Emille Hunt
- Carnival of Love (2013), Ernestia Fraiser*
- Curry Flavor (2000), Lelawattee Manoo-Rahming
- Emancipation: I am My Own Creation (2017), Hillary Booker, Phd.
- Diary of Souls (2006), Ian Strachan
- “Anne Destroys the Planation” found in The Caribbean Writer Vol 24 (2010), Sonia Farmer
- “An Offering” found in The Caribbean Writer, Vol. 36(2022), Letitia Marie Pratt
- “Snow Outside my Window” found in Yinna, Vol. 1, (2000), Christian Campbell
- 7 Get Rich Schemes: The Government Doesn’t Want You to Know About Just Because The Plans Are Slightly Unethical and Borderline Criminal (2021), Thomas Hannah
- “All Our Monsters” found in Short Tales, Vol II, (2019) S. A. Hannah
- Supernova Vol 1. (2016), Maz Joachin
- “I believe in Junkanoo” found in Yinna, Vol. 4 (2012), Maelynn Seymour-Major
- “Ode to a Red Seagrape Tree” found in Yinna, Vol. 4(2012), Thea Rutherford
- “My Lover” found in PreeLit Online: New Caribbean Writing (2020) by Maelynn Seymour-Major
- “Drummer Boy” found in Yinna, Vol.2 (2007), Lelawattee Manoo-Rahming
- “For as long as I Remember” found in Tongues of the Ocean (2010), Margot Bethel
- “God Save Duh Queen” found in PreeLit Online: New Caribbean Writing (2020), Ide Thompson
- “Mango Season” found on Limestone Review (2021) by Xan Xi Behtel
- “I born a Gaulin Woman” found on Limestone Review (2021) by Xan Xi Bethel
- “Sip an’ Talk” found in Tongues of the Ocean (2010) by Angelique V. Nixon
- “The Tree of Life” found in Short Tales Vol. 3 (2020) by Gail Hannah
- “Turkey and Ham” found in Short Tales Vol. 1 (2018), by Heather L. Thompson
- “The Gaulin’s Daughter”, found in WomanSpeak Journal (2018), Alexia Tolas
- “Revenge,” found in WomanSpeak Journal (2018),Lynn Sweeting
- When Doves Cry, (2000), Keith A. Russell
