Her 1970 novel Crick Crack, Monkey is a classic of West Indian literature,[1] and Hodge is acknowledged as the first black Caribbean woman to have published a major work of fiction.
and received a Master of Philosophy degree in 1967, the focus of which concerned the poetry of the French Guyanese writer Léon Damas.
Hodge did quite a bit of travelling after obtaining her degree, working as a typist and baby-sitter to make ends meet.
[6] In 2022, Hodge and Funso Aiyejina were joint winners of the Bocas Henry Swanzy Award for Distinguished Service to Caribbean Letters.
With Tee as narrator, Hodge guides the reader through an intensely personal study of the effects of the colonial imposition of various social and cultural values on the Trinidadian female.