Table of Contents
Editorial Preface
Glyne Griffith
Olfactory Archives: Smell and Historical Memory in Lawrence Scott’s Witchbroom and Austin Clarke’s The Polished Hoe
Julianne McCobin
Landless Roots: Demythologizing Caribbean Ecology and Self-Sufficiency in Margaret Cezair-Thompson’s The True History of Paradise
David Buchanan
Derek Walcott’s Poetics of Naming and Epistemologies of Place
Janet Graham
“Unbounded by Little National and Racial Lines”: The Space between Borders in Claude McKay’s Banana Bottom
Joshua M. Murray
“The end linked with the beginning and was even the beginning”: Fractal Poetics in Erna Brodber’s Nothing’s Mat
Leighan Renaud
Drinking Forever: Daru (Rum) Poetics in Chutney Music
Rajiv Mohabir
“A Great Need to Defecate”: Excremental Angst in Harold Sonny Ladoo’s Yesterdays
Sebastian Galbo
“To me, I no man yet!”: Indo-Trinidadian Manhood in Samuel Selvon’s A Brighter Sun and V. S. Naipaul’s A House for Mr. Biswas
Tyrone Ali
Storytelling, Art and Activism in Alecia McKenzie’s Oeuvre: An Interview
Véronique Maisier
Arturo Desimone, Aruban Argentinian Writer and Visual Artist: An Interview
Stephanie McKenzie
Book Reviews
Cristina Herrera and Paula Sanmartín, editors, Reading/Speaking/Writing the Mother Text: Essays on Caribbean Women’s Writing
Renée Landell
Roger Robinson, A Portable Paradise
Amílcar Peter Sanatan
Curdella Forbes, A Tall History of Sugar
Carol Mitchell
Paulette A. Ramsay, Afro-Mexican Constructions of Diaspora, Gender, Identity and Nation
Andrea Ringer
Edward Baugh, Derek Walcott; Rupert Lewis, Marcus Garvey; Funso Aiyejina, Earl Lovelace; Judy Raymond, Beryl McBurnie
J. Dillon Brown
Notes on contributors
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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
Guest Editors: Michael A. Bucknor and Kezia Page, Special Issue on Marlon James
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Introduction
“Authorial Self-fashioning, Political Denials and Artistic Distinctiveness: The Queer Poetics of Marlon James”
Guest Editors: Michael A. Bucknor and Kezia Page, Special Issue on Marlon James
Marlon James and the Metafiction of the New Black Gothic
Sheri-Marie Harrison
Femme Finale: Gender, Violence and Nation in Marlon James’ Novels
Lauren Shoemaker
“So Many Incredible Gehennas”: Musicality and (the Poetics of) ‘Relation’ in Marlon James’ Novels
Emma Crowley
Re-evaluating Religion and Superstition: Obeah and Christianity in Marlon James’s The Book of Night Women and William Earle Jr.’s Obi, or The History of Three-Fingered Jack
Jhordan Layne
Violence, Imperialism and Male Socialization in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian and Marlon James’ A Brief History of Seven Killings
Michael K. Walonen
“Jah Live”: Messianic Time and Post-Traumatic Narrative Disorder in Marlon James’ A Brief History of Seven Killings
Njelle W. Hamilton
Uncomfortable Truths: Lifewriting, Trauma and Survivance in Marlon James’ A Brief History of Seven Killings
Caryn Rae Adams
Book Reviews
Barbara Lalla, Grounds for Tenure
Evelyn O’Callaghan
John Robert Lee, Collected Poems 1975-2015
Laurence Breiner
Angelique V. Nixon, Resisting Paradise: Tourism, Diaspora and Sexuality in Caribbean Culture
Angeletta KM Gourdine
Notes on Contributors
Glyne A. Griffith, Editor Special Issue on Trans-Media: The Audio-Visual Platforms of Anglophone Caribbean Literature
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Introduction
Glyne A. Griffith
Ctrl + Alt/HyperText: Toward a Remediated Caribbean Literary Aesthetic
Jarrel De Matas
Thelwell “Vershann”: Adaptation and Michael Thelwell’s The Harder They Come
Rachel Moseley Wood
Words Are Not Enough
Jean Antoine Dunn
“This thing is very much alive”: Louise Bennett on Audio-Visual Media
Alejandra Bronfman
Great Adaptations: Green Days by the River Moves to Screen
Patricia Mohammed
Austin Clarke and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation: An Interview with Austin Clarke
Michael Bucknor
Book Reviews
Peelin Orange: The Collected Poems of Mervyn Morris
Edward Baugh
Philip Nanton, Frontiers of the Caribbean
Bridget Brereton
Rhonda Cobham-Sander, I and I: Epitaphs for the Self in the Work of V.S. Naipaul, Kamau Brathwaite, and Derek Walcott
Sarah Phillips Casteel
Green Days by the River
Jean Antoine Dunn
Gabrielle Jamela Hosein and Lisa Outar, Indo-Caribbean Feminist Thought: Genealogies, Theories, Enactments.
J. Vijay Maharaj
Notes on Contributors
