ABSTRACT
London, with its network of cultural and social connections, held a special place for this generation of postwar writers from the English-speaking Caribbean. This chapter investigates the emergence in print in the UK of some of the important writers of that postwar generation by sketching a map of connections between some of the writers, editors and publishers who comprised a literary network sympathetic to the publication and dissemination of Anglophone Caribbean writing in this 'boom' period. It looks at the BBC broadcast programme, 'Caribbean Voices' that was presided over by a producer in Britain and an agent in Jamaica. The chapter examines the exchange of letters between the London and Kingston offices of the BBC to flesh out some of the contradictions of a metropolitan broadcast programme. It explores the publication of some notable writers of the same generation, Kamau Brathwaite, Derek Walcott and VS Naipaul, and to a lesser extent, George Lamming.
