One of the sister projects of the Diasporic Literary Archives Network is entitled Caribbean Literary Heritage and is based primarily at the University of East Anglia, Norwich.
The project has the following aims, in respect of literary materials from the Caribbean region:
* to create a fuller literary history of the period 1940-1980
* to recover stories of forgotten writers and writings
* to help writers to become more aware of what to save of today’s manuscripts and papers for tomorrow’s researchers
* to develop case studies of writers, especially those writing from the region, that seek to understand the opportunities and challenges for their creative and collecting practices
* to bring together academics, archivists and writers from the UK, Caribbean and beyond to discuss the changing nature of Caribbean literary archives across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
* to create an open-access resource that maps where Caribbean writers’ papers can be found
* to enrich open access knowledge sources, such a Wikipedia, with entries on Caribbean writers, their papers, and literary archives in the region
* to work with and take guidance from senior figures in the region including the project’s official advisors
For more information, visit the Caribbean Literary Heritage website at: www.caribbeanliteraryheritage.com.