Works by
Jan Carew
(Aka Jan R. Carew, Jan Rynveld Carew)
(Writer)
[September 24, 1920 - ]

Children

• The Children of the Sun (1980) by Jan R. Carew with Diane Dillon and Leo Dillon, Illustrators

• The Third Gift (1974) by Jan R. Carew with Diane Dillon and Leo Dillon, Illustrators
  The first two gifts from their leaders made the Jubas a strong and beautiful people, but the third gift was the best of all.  Baby-preschool.

Drama

• High Impact: Green for Danger (2001)

• Time Loop (1983)

Fiction

• Flowers of the Forest (2007)

• Guyanese Wanderer: Stories (2007)
  Jan Carew combines Caribbean folklore, ghost story, adventure tale, and literature of European exile to create a spirited dialect and colloquial voice that startles and delights; he's comfortable confronting anything, racial prejudice or whimsical fable, the natural world or city slum.

• The Sisters and Manco's Stories (2002)

• Voices in the Dark (2001)

• The Lost Love and Other Stories (1997) with Peter Gibson, Illustrator

• Footprints in the Sand (1994)

• Stranger Than Tomorrow: Three Stories of the Future (1976)

• Green Winter: A Novel (1965)

Non-fiction

• Eyam Plague Village (2003)

• The Coming of Amalivaca (1998)

• Ghosts in Our Blood: With Malcolm X in Africa, England, and the Caribbean (1994)
  See also Malcolm X.

• Rape of Paradise: Columbus and the Birth of Racism in the Americas (2006, 1994)
  "On the morning of October 12, 1492, a group of Tainos discovered Christopher Columbus and a landing party from his flagship the Santa Maria on a beach of Guanahani. Russell Thornton, author of American Indian Holocaust and Survival: A Population History Since 1492, calls it quite justifiably, "one of the more important demographic events in the history of the world." Thornton, whose book was published by the University of Oklahoma Press in 1987, estimates that "there were 72 million Native Peoples in the Western Hemisphere in 1492." He notes as well, "this number plummeted in following centuries to perhaps 4 to 4.5 million – a population about 6% of its former size. That American Indians exist today and have shown recent population increases is a testament to perseverance over a dark period of history."
  
  The history of that first voyage of "discovery" and the three others that Columbus made in his lifetime, has been glossed over for five centuries. Depicted mostly as one of romance and adventure, it is only recently that some of the hideous consequences of that "discovery" have been brought to light. The excuse proffered for Columbus is that he was a man of his time, but Hans Koning, in the final chapter of his work, Columbus: His Enterprise, contests this cavalier claim by suggesting that if this were so, then It is to the greater glory of those men who were not "of their time": de las Casas, who in vain fought for half a century to save the Indians; Antonio de Montesinos, a [principled and fearless] Dominican friar . . . There were a few worldly men around too, who were not "of their time" . . . . Pedro Margarit, who sickened at the treatment of the Arawaks, who left Hispaniola and spoke against Columbus at Court. Alfonso de Albuquerque, who treated his subjects in Portuguese India as if they were people." -- from the Introduction

• Computer Killer (1989)

• No Entry (1989)

• Fulcrums of Change: Origins of Racism in the Americas and Other Essays (1988)

• Grenada: The Hour will Strike Again (1986)
  A cultural and political history of Grenada by Jan Carew, a historian, poet, playwright, and leading contributor to the intellectual tradition of Caribbean Studies.

• Don't Go Near the Water (1982)

• Dark Night, Deep Water (1981)

• Dead Man's Creek (1981)

• Black Midas (1958, 1980)

• The Caribbean Writer and Exile (1976)

• A Touch of Midas (1958)

• The Wild Coast (1958)

Other

• Black America (1993) by C. Lusane, Jan Carew, et al.

• Death Comes to the Circus (1989) with Stanley Thornes, ed.