ABSTRACT
As the first "site of European colonization", the Caribbean region has been scarred by experiences of oppression, dehumanization, and fragmentation. Having been labelled "uncivilized" by the West and having longed for the experience of freedom, Caribbean territories highly anticipated independence during the nationalistic years of the 1940s to 1950s. The birth of literature within the Caribbean region, with particular focus on Trinidad, Jamaica, and Guyana, paralleled the period of nationalism for these countries and so often represented the nationalistic conditions during the 1940s to the 1980s. Over the past half century a new form of Caribbean children's literature has emerged, which attempts to represent a balance of the older forms of Caribbean culture with newer modes of cultural practices and ways of thinking. The representation of marginalized cultural realities in the writings of Johnson, Browne, and Nageer is fundamental to the depiction of the process of reshaping Caribbean national identity and consciousness.
