Elaine Savory
Guest Editor, Special Issue on Caribbean Ecocriticism

Table of Contents

Editorial Preface
Elaine Savory

Food, Biodiversity, Extinctions: Caribbean Fauna and the Struggle for Food Security during the Conquest of the New World
Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert

“Black was never more Beautiful”: Ecology, Culture, and the Oil Boom in Trinidad
Michael Niblett

Informal Urbanism and the Hard Question of the Anthropocene
Eric Prieto

Patrick Chamoiseau’s Texaco or the Ecology of Caribbean Identity
Keithley P. Woolward

Literature for Children and Young Adults as Path to Enlightenment Emancipation
Melissa Garcia-Vega

“Seeing” Goat Island Clearly: A Question of “Development”
Jacqueline Bishop

Book Reviews

Caribbean and Postcolonial Ecocriticism: Revisioning in an Urgent Time
Elaine Savory

Spectacular Suffering: Witnessing Slavery in the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic
Ramesh Mallipeddi

Calypso Jews: Jewishness in Caribbean Literary Imagination
Sarah Phillips Casteel

Notes on Contributors

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Introduction
Michael A. Bucknor

“Remember Us in Motherland”: Africa Revisited in Goodison’s Oracabessa
Anthea Morrison

Migration, Manhood and Melancholia in the Work of Caryl Phillips
Craig A. Smith

Trauma, Memory and Recovery in Myriam Chancy’s The Scorpion’s Claw
Carol Bailey

 An Interview With Henry Valentine Swanzy
Glyne Griffith

Book Reviews

J. Dillon Brown and Leah Reade Rosenberg Beyond Windrush: Rethinking Postwar Anglophone Caribbean Literature
Stewart Brown

Alison Donnell, Maria MacGarrity and Evelyn O’Callaghan Caribbean Irish Connections: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Fionnghuala Sweeney

James Davis Eric Walrond’s Biography and the Problem of Black Transnational History
Jennifer Brittan

Notes on Contributors

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“I Married My Mother”: Jamaica Kincaid’s See Now Then
Daryl Cumber Dance

On Scanning Louise Bennett Seriously
Ben Etherington

The Interplay of Political and Existential Freedom in Earl Lovelace’s The Dragon Can’t Dance
Tohru Nakamura

Pamela Mordecai’s Poetry: Some Questions for Further Consideration
Stephanie McKenzie

“Your journey, even when bumpy,/will be sweet”: Jamaica in Kei Miller’s A Light Song of Light
Bartosz Wójcik

“Our words spoken among us, in fragments”: Austin Clarke’s Aesthetics of Crossing
Paul Barrett

Sounding Out Spirit Thievery in Erna Brodber’s Myal
Anne Margaret Castro

Reading the Critical Pastoral in Lovelace’s Salt and Roffey’s White Woman on the Green Bicycle
Erin Fehskens

Book Reviews

Jean Goulbourne
Parable of the Mangoes.
Aisha T. Spencer.

Marlon James
A Brief History of Seven Killings
Philip Nanton

Vladimir Lucien
Sounding Ground
Laurence A. Briener 

Notes on Contributors