Caribbean Studies Network: The Caribbean Routes of William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams (1883–1963) was an American poet, writer, and physician, closely associated with modernism. This paper examines the complexity of Williams’s relationship with the Caribbean by exploring his family history, which spanned Puerto Rico, St. Thomas, and the Dominican Republic; the possible political significance of the family’s connections to the leading independentistas of the period; and Williams’s first trip to the Caribbean, to attend a writers’ conference in Puerto Rico in 1941.

Peter Hulme is Emeritus Professor of Literature at the University of Essex, where he taught for 40 years. Most of his research has focused on the Caribbean, both English- and Spanish-speaking, and he was also closely associated with the development of postcolonial studies.

Arranged by the Caribbean Studies Network and CaribOx.

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