Special Issue on Kamau Brathwaite – Guest Editor Kelly Baker Josephs – JWIL Editor in Charge Lisa Outar

Table of Contents

Editorial Preface: Engaging Kamau Brathwaite
Kelly Baker Josephs

Kamau Brathwaite and the remix engine
Ronald Cummings, Kaie Kellough, and Nalini Mohabir

Kamau Brathwaite’s Poems from Ghana: Making Sense of Rhyme
Jarad Zimbler

“this strange dark photograph at first so indistinct”: Kamau Brathwaite and the Photographic Image
Andrew Rippeon

“like quetzalcoatl flying”: Afro-Caribbean and Amerindian Entanglements in Kamau Brathwaite
Dashiell Moore

Hope for the Pluriverse, Defeat of the Universe in the Work of Kamau Brathwaite
Elaine Savory

Heroes, Mothers, and Muses: Teaching Gender in Kamau Brathwaite
Rachel L. Mordecai

Using Digital Tools and Collaborative Writing to Engage Students with Kamau Brathwaite’s Poetry
Kim Evelyn

Lessons from Brathwaite: Breaking the Pentameter, Deepening Black Study
Bedour Alagraa

Book Reviews

Paul Barrett, editor, ’Membering Austin Clarke
Cornel Bogle

Notes on Contributors

Special Issue on Dub Poetry – Guest Editor Phanuel Antwi – JWIL Editor in Charge Michael A. Bucknor

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Introduction – Anticolonial Dreaming: The End of an Aura and the Persistence of Dub
Phanuel Antwi

Deja Voodoo: Literary Coup under the Influence of Dub
Klyde “Durm-I” Broox
Audio Version sound-processed by Simon Orpana  

Reading Kei Miller’s In Nearby Bushes in the Wake of Dub Poetry
Janet Neigh

Dubbing Dub Poetry? Approaching Lee “Scratch” Perry, Poetically
Isis Semaj-Hall

Dub Poetry’s Global Impact, Forty Years On
A. D. McKenzie and Tobias Schlosser

Dub Theatre and Storytelling: A Conversation with ahdri zhina mandiela (in Eight Movements)
Ronald Cummings and Nalini Mohabir

Catching Bullets with Her Ass: Matrilineality and the Canadian Dub Poetry Tradition in the Work of d’bi.young anitafrika
Natalie Wall

Book Reviews

Safiya Sinclair, Cannibal
Lauren K. Alleyne

Ingrid Persaud, Love after Love
Bastien Bomans

Stephanie Pocock Boeninger, Literary Drowning: Postcolonial Memory in Irish and Caribbean Writing
Ellen Howley

Njelle Hamilton, Phonographic Memories: Popular Music and the Contemporary Caribbean Novel
Dadland Maye

Jacqueline Bishop, The Gymnast and Other Positions
Emily Taylor

Notes on Contributors

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Editorial Preface
Lisa Outar

Authorizing the Hinterlands? Forms of History and Wilson Harris’s Jonestown
J. Dillon Brown 

Caribbean Basins: Containing the Im/material in Kei Miller’s “Quashie’s Verse” and Olive Senior’s “Gourd”
Samantha Stephens 

An Unsung History: Rereading David Chariandy’s Soucouyant through Sound
Treviene A. Harris 

Fugitive Form in Patrick Chamoiseau’s L’esclave vieil homme et le molosse
Xavier Lee 

Women Loving Women in the Erotic-Pornographic Binary: Sex and Intimacy via Audre Lorde in Nicole Dennis-Benn’s Here Comes the Sun
Janelle Rodriques 

The Harder They Cum, The Harder Babylon Fall: The Queer Utopian Poetics of Marlon James’s A Brief History of Seven Killings
Kedon Willis 

“The thing relayed as well as the thing related”: Constructing Female Strength through Errantry in Nalo Hopkinson’s ‘Robber Queen’ Folk Tales
Amanda Bryan 

Re-articulations of the Flying Symbolic: Flying and Falling in Edwidge Danticat’s Krik? Krak! and “Without Inspection”
Cole A. Carvour 

An Anthurium Blooms: An Interview with Dr. Sandra Pouchet Paquet
Miguel Vasquez 

Book Reviews

Anthony Kellman, Tracing Jaja
Bénédicte Ledent 

Kinitra D. Brooks, Searching for Sycorax: Black Women’s Hauntings of Contemporary Horror
Paula Morgan 

Kei Miller, In Nearby Bushes
Ian Bethell Bennett

Notes on Contributors

Table of Contents

Editorial Preface
Marta Fernández Campa

“There was no book to tell you anything about this”: Al Ramsawack and the Oral Archives of Caribbean Folklore
Jarula M. I. Wegner and Amanda T. McIntyre

“Those Not with Us Anymore”: The Literary Archive of Indian Minorities in Guyanese Indenture and Beyond
Maria del Pilar Kaladeen

Archiving Ten Years of Aftershocks in Haitian Seismic Notebooks
Rachel Douglas

Capturing Contexts, Documenting Details: Using Literature to Archive Caribbean Memory
Stanley H. Griffin

Ending the Radio Silence of Gladys Lindo: The Missing Story of Caribbean Voices
Jennifer F. McDerra

An Archival Exploration of Radio Dramatic Hinterlands: Caryl Phillips’s Hotel Cristobel
Bénédicte Ledent

Arranging and Describing Literary Archives: Impacting Research and Scholarship
Lorraine Nero

Contemporary Caribbean Authors’ Papers: Record Keeping, Creative Practices and Preservation in the Digital Age
Marta Fernández Campa

William Beckford, Esq. and the English and Transatlantic Culture of Taste in the 1790s
Sue Thomas

Repicturing the Picturesque: Archival Dreams and Descendant Community Life Writing
Jocelyn Fenton Stitt

Book Reviews

Patricia Powell, Me Dying Trial
Keja Valens

Lissa Paul, Eliza Fenwick: Early Modern Feminist
Denise deCaires Narain

Notes on contributors

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

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Introduction to Special Issue on Caribbean Science/Speculative Fiction
Debra Providence

Black Technologies: Caribbean Visions and Versions in the Speculative Narratives of Tobias Buckell and Karen Lord
Jacinth Howard

Encountering Others across Science Fiction, Afrofuturism and Anglophone Caribbean Speculative Fiction
Nicola Hunte

Myth, Ancestors and Ritual: A Critical Reading of Spirit in George Lamming’s Season of Adventure
Hannah Regis

Of Cyborgs and Immortal Women: Speculative Fictions of Caribbean Posthumanity in Selected Stories of New Worlds, Old Ways: Speculative Tales from the Caribbean
Jarrel De Matas

Olokun, or the Caribbean Quantum Mind: An Analysis of Transculturated Metaphysical Elements within Rita Indiana’s Novel Tentacle
Rosana Herrero-Martín

Book Reviews

David Chariandy, Brother
Michael A. Bucknor

Lalbihari Sharma, I Even Regret Night: Holi Songs of Demerara
Aliyah Khan

David Dabydeen, Maria del Pilar Kaladeen, Tina K. Ramnarine, We Mark Your Memory: Writing from the Descendants of Indenture
Najnin Islam

Notes on Contributors

Rachel L. Mordecai, Editor in Charge

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Editorial Preface
Rachel L. Mordecai 

Más Allá del Play: Race and the Dominican Baseball Player in Sugar
Raj Chetty

Travelling Identities, Virtual Frames: Embodying the Caribbean in Digital Spaces
Nicola Hunte

Refusing Daffodils: The Resistant Pedagogies of Michelle Cliff’s Abeng
Meina Yates-Richard

The Erotic Schemes of Angels: Love on the Line in Merle Collins’s Novel Revisioning
Asha Tall

A “Right to Quiet”: Noise Control, M. NourbeSe Philip and a Critique of Sound as Property
Petal Samuel

Jamaican String Theory: Quantum Sounds and Postcolonial Spacetime in Marcia Douglas’s The Marvellous Equations of the Dread
Njelle W. Hamilton 

Book Reviews

Shara McCallum, Madwoman
Amrita Bandopadhyay

Leone Ross, Come Let Us Sing Anyway and Other Stories
Kezia Page

Helen Klonaris, If I Had the Wings: Short Stories
Kim Robinson-Walcott

Notes on Contributors

Guest Editors: Michael A. Bucknor and Kezia Page, Special Issue on Marlon James

Table of Contents

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