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Barbara Lalla

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Biography

Novelist Barbara Lalla is Professor Emerita, Language and Literature at The University of the West Indies, St Augustine. She is the author of five novels, including By Such a Parting Light, published in 2024. Her numerous scholarly works include Postcolonialisms: Caribbean Rereading of Medieval English Discourse, Defining Jamaican Fiction: Marronage and the Discourse of Survival, and the co-authored Language in Exile: Three Hundred Years of Jamaican Creole, Voices in Exile: Jamaican Texts of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, and Caribbean Literary Discourse: Voice and Cultural Identity in the Anglophone Caribbean.

Years Attended

2015 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2018 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2019 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2020 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2021 Adult's Festival Participant, 2021 Workshop Facilitator, 2023 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2024 Adult’s Festival Participant

Barbara Lalla

Author
Trinidad & Tobago
Events Featuring Barbara Lalla
2021
Sentence by Sentence: The Language of Fiction, with Barbara Lalla
Workshops Event
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2021
Imaginary Homelands: Barbara Lalla & Leone Ross
Festival Programme Event
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