Merle Hodge

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Merle Hodge (born 1944) is a Trinidadian scholar and novelist. After studying and traveling abroad for years, she returned to the Caribbean where she currently holds a position at the University of the West Indies in Trinidad. She wrote numerous works of literary criticism, but also two novels. The first, Crick Crack Monkey, has often been studied as an important example of post-colonial fiction.

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  • Crick Crack Monkey (1970)
  • The Life of Laetitia (1993)

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