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Vol. 30, No. 1, November 2021

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

Table of Contents

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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