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Vol. 28, No. 1 April 2020

Table of Contents

The Craft of Commitment: Evelyn O’Callaghan’s Scholarly Care for the Caribbean
Alison Donnell

In Defense of Beauty
Annalee Davis

Joe Hook
Edward Baugh

In Search of Great-Grandmother: An Intimate History of Jamaica
Erna Brodber

Blood Relatives
Antonia MacDonald

Remembering Dunfermline
Mark McWatt

On My Way to Somewhere: To Dublin from Cork or Dear Mr. O’Reilly
Velma Pollard

In Barbados: Extract from A View of the Empire at Sunset
Caryl Phillips

Red Sneakers
Kim Robinson-Walcott

Conceptual Residues of Imperialist Ruination: Waste, Weeds and the Poetics of Rubbish in Edward Baugh’s Black Sand and Olive Senior’s Gardening in the Tropics
Michael A. Bucknor

Towards an “inclusive, fluid diversity in Caribbean writing”: The West Indian Scholar and Her Quarrel with Literary Criticism
J. Dillon Brown

“Solace of Laudanum”: Shadows of Maternity in Derek Walcott’s Omeros
Maria McGarrity

“Reach to Golden Spring”: Changing Vistas in the Poetry of Lorna Goodison
Anthea Morrison

Woman Version as Foundational Text: Mapping Caribbean Women’s Writing
Emily Taylor

“She have the sun in her”: Tribute for Ev
Denise deCaires Narain and Jane Bryce

A Dear Prof. Letter
Malica S. Willie

Breaking Historical and Critical Silences
Bénédicte Ledent

Notes on Contributors

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