JWIL Volume 34, Number 2, April 2026
Introduction: How Shall the History of the Journal of West Indian Literature Be Told?
Cornel Bogle
Essays
Moses Mis-Recognized: Sam Selvon’s Non-Representational Politics
Jess Hannah
Incongruous Sovereignty: C. L. R. James and the West Indian Novel
Ariel Martino
From Jameson to James to Jamaica: A Brief History of Seven Killings as a Political Form of Postmodernism
M. Keith Booker and Isra Daraiseh
“Get too close and you get the disease”: A Pathology of Racial and Gendered Purity in Elizabeth Nunez’s Prospero’s Daughter
Alexis K. Samuels
Between Tradition and Globalization: Drug Addiction as a Symbol of Social Issues in the Caribbean according to Tony Delsham
Coraline Kandassamy
Special Contribution
Deceptive Relationships: Reading Creole in Anglophone Caribbean Literature with Velma Pollard
Simona Bertacco and Velma Pollard
Interview
A Different Starting Point: A Conversation between Philip Nanton and Shalini Puri
Poem
Blind Date: Old Movie in Three Reels
Curdella Forbes
Book Reviews
Alison Donnell, writer and editor, Lost and Found: An A–Z of Neglected Writers of the Anglophone Caribbean
Emily L. Taylor
Tao Leigh Goffe, Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis
Michael Niblett
Monique Roffey, Passiontide
Lucy Evans
Canisia Lubrin, Code Noir
Barbara Gfoellner
Oneka LaBennett, Global Guyana: Shaping Race, Gender, and Environment in the Caribbean and Beyond
Kavita Gawrinauth
Notes on Contributors
