Vol. 28, No. 2 November 2020
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
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