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Vol. 29, No. 2 April 2021

Table of Contents

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

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