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Franklin W Knight THE CRISIS IN THE CONTEMPORARY CARIBBEAN* IT SEEMS TO ME that when serious thinkers ponder the reality of Latin America and the Caribbean, sooner or later they tum to the poets and writers. Who would ever consider trying to understand Latin America without ever having read, and re-read, Cien anos de soledad, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez? And having read that marvelous novel, who still doubts that every nation has its own version of Macondo? I have often had the curious experience of a bright undergraduate or eager graduate student barging into my office to get a quick short list of reading material on Caribbean history. I would often begin the list with a novel or two, or a think piece: George Lamming's In the Castle of My Skin, or Earl Lovelace's The Dragon Can't Dance, or John Hearne's The Sure Salvation, or V. S. Naipaul's A House for Mr. Biswas. Then I would say something like, "Do not forget to read C.L.R. James' Beyond a Boundary; it is the most insightful book on Caribbean society." Of course, the students would display a painful disappointment, and the bolder of them would declare with undisguised hostility that those were not histories. The shy ones would slink away and I would never hear from them again. The less bright ones would never know the difference until they had spoken to the smarter students-after reading one or two!! "Well," I would reply, calmly, "yes, I know! But you ought to be trying to understand the societies. And such keys to understanding the societies are not encased in disciplinary molds." I have been interested in the Caribbean for a very long time, not simply because I was born there, nor have the latest headlines forced my attention that way, but because I find the region of enormous intrinsic importance and interest. It is a most fascinating region of the world. But it is not an easy place to understand. The Caribbean is a place where history, reality, and the contrived perceptions of the reality have a way of merging and mingling in tragic combination.