Vol. 26, No. 2 November 2018
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
