Caribbean Aspirations
& Achievements

A slim typescript booklet of abstracts from the Association’s seventh annual conference, held in 1985 and edited by Dathorne. Its twenty-five entries are a good cross-section of what Caribbean studies covered in the mid-1980s: an opening address by the Honourable Kamal Mohammed; Okey Onyejekwe on petroleum and international relations; William Rolle on the Martinican family; Robert Bensen on Derek Walcott’s Midsummer; Laurence A. Breiner on Eric Roach; Obiagele Lake on class and caste; Sheila Smith-Hobson on Grenada; Angus Richmond on the West Indian writer; C. H. Wyke on language in Naipaul and Selvon; Jolita Kavaliunas on Simone Schwarz-Bart; Cynthia Mahabir on urbanization and crime; Joann Rita Vega on health care in Cuba; William Wedenoja on mothering in Jamaica; Nathaniel Norment on the written language of Haitian students; Dominique Aurelia on exile and creation; and Frank Birbalsingh on Naipaul and the immigrant experience. The booklet also reprints the journal’s back-issue list, a compact record of its first six years.