In the early 20th Century, many Caribbean countries were not independent. Therefore, the development of literary traditions had not begun. Jamaica won independence in 1962. Among the Caribbean’s most renown English-speaking writers: Jamaican novelist Tom Redcam, pen name Thomas MacDermot (Becka Buckra’s Son in 1904) and Herbert G. Lisser (Jane’ Chariot in 1914, The Rosehall’s White Witch in 1929, the comedy Under the Sun in1937). But maybe Jamaican-born poet Claude McKay is the best-known writer of this generation.. McKay moved to New York after writing his Constab’s Balads in 1912. In the Big Apple, he turned out to be one most important writers of the Harlem’s Black Movement back in the 1920s and 30s, with such works as Back to Harlem (1928) and Banana Bottom (1933).Jamaican Vic Reid’s novel New Day (1949), reflects exactly the longing for the “new day” of independence. Another Jamaican, Roger Mais, portrays the unemployed and oppressed urban population of the Caribbean in novels like Hills Were Happy Together (1953) and Brother man (1954). The latter’s language is inspired in jazz rhythms. Sylvia Wynter takes in folk culture’s elements in The Hebron Hills (1966). Jean Rhys’s acclaimed success for his novels about women trapped in point-of-no-return situations among them: After Leaving Mr. MacKenzie (1930), Good Morning, Midnight (1939) and Anchorman of the Seaweeds (1966)
