Instructions to Students:

The class will work in two groups for this project. Your group will imagine yourselves as a team of editors for a new anthology of Caribbean literature. As a group, you’ll need to make decisions about your anthology’s framework: Time period? Media? Thematic focus? Narrower geographical focus? Structure? Audience? (The introductions to the Bahamian Anthology and Dahl’s text should be helpful models, though you may certainly depart from them in any ways you choose. In week four, you’ll also have a chance to browse other anthologies to see a range of possibilities for such texts.) Have fun with this assignment – it’s a creative way to bring together what you’ve all learned over the course of the block. Be thoughtful about how you can offer a comprehensive view of your readings and experiences this block. You will present your anthology as a group. You can choose whether to present a physical object or virtual object, but the anthology should include:

An editorial introduction introducing the anthology with a theoretical framework informed by course secondary Include a Works Consulted (or Cited) list.
A table of contents (may include course texts as well as other texts you may come across in your readings/research in the Gerace library). Texts for the anthology may include both primary and secondary
Texts for the anthology must include at least one piece of writing from each group member (from journal assignments, revised).
Any additional material you choose to include: maps; photographs; other images; timelines; glossaries; audio material;
If the anthology is divided into units or sections, brief headnotes for each
An appendix of each editor’s dissents (see below).

Although not all the texts listed in your table of contents will be literally included in the anthology you’re imagining, your presentation of it should give a sense of the whole – that is, what this anthology would be like if it were actually published. You may “actually” include any texts you choose. Presentation component (entire class): You’ll be presenting the anthology as a group. Prepare as a group the most effective way to showcase your work, including both an overview of the anthology’s guiding philosophy and some excerpts from texts (yours and others). You may decide as a group whether you want to include the dissenting opinions in your presentation. Everyone should participate substantively.

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