Journal of West Indian Literature
Vol. 22, No. 2, November 2014

Adventures in forum: 'Outsider' fiction in the Caribbean - Jane Bryce

Swaddling: On Lorna Goodison's womanly poetics - Christian Campbell

Out of many, One voice: An interview with Paulette Ramsay - Carrie J. Walker

Consciousness, the epistolary novel and the Anglophone Caribbean writer: Paulette Ramsay's Aunt Jen - Milton A.P. Moise

Book reviews
Robert Antoni, As flies to whatless boys - Michael A. Bucknor

Curdella Forbes, Ghosts - Mark-Paul Cowan

Margaret D. Gill, Rich man in his castle, poor ones take the street: Integrating a "Canonical" text with popular culture - Viola Davis

Rahul Bhattacharya, The sly company of people who care. - Lomarsh Roopnarine

Ear McKenzie, A bluebird named poetry: Linked poems, stories and paintings - Kim Robinson

Notes on contributors


Journal of West Indian Literature
Vol. 22, No. 1, November 2013

Bacchanal or Missa Solemnis? Shame, symmetry, and late style in Robert Antoni's Carnival - Eric Smith

Prolonging "Last call": Jamaica Kincaid's voyeuristic pleasures in my brother - Timothy Lyle

Reclaiming sexual identities in Patricia Powell's: A small gathering of bones and Curdella Forbes' A permanent freedom - Marie Sairsingh

Domestic work, masculinity, and freedom in Austin Clarke's Toronto Trilogy - Alison Nyhuis

An interview with Malachi Smith - Eric Doumerc

Book reviews
Adrian Augier. Navel string - Edward Baugh

Opal Palmer Adisa. Painting away regret - Curdella Forbes

Olive Senior. Dancing lessons - Susan Gingell

Jeff Karem. The purloined islands: Caribbean-U.S. crosscurrents in literature and culture, 1880-1895 - J. Dillon Brown

Lynne Macedo. Pak's Britannica: Articles by and interviews with David Dabydeen - Ole Birk Laursen

Denise deCaires Narain. Olive Senior - Rachel L. Mordecai

Notes on contributors


Journal of West Indian Literature
Vol. 21, No. 1 & 2, April 2013

Introduction: Dangerous crossings: Caribbean masculinities and the politics of challenging gendered borderlines - Michael A. Bucknor

The shadow of intimacy: Male bonding and improvised masculinity in Claude McKay's Banjo: A story without a plot - Jarrett H. Brown

Walcott's Blues and the discourse of black male existence - Charleston Alex Thomas

Austin Clarke's Bajan boyhood: Coming of age in amongst thistles and thorns, growing up stupid under the Union Jack and proud empires - Aaron Kamugisha

The trials of becoming a man in Cyril Dabydeen's The wizard swami - J. Vijay Maharaj

Traumatizing black masculinities: Bearing witness to male rape in the African Disapora - Darius Bost

"Pon di borderline": Exploring constructions of Jamaican masculinity in dancehall and roots theatre - Donna P. Hope

Jamaican female masculinities: Nanny of the Maroons and the genealogy of the Man-Royal - Ronald Cummings

(de) Constructing patriarchal masculinities in Cess Silvera's Shottas - Craig A. Smith

Re-Imaging sexy: Modifying machismo in Ana Menendez's Loving Che - Johanna Ayala-Walsh

Book reviews
Maria McGarrity's washed by the Gulf stream: The Historic and geographic relation of Irish and Caribbean literature - Lee M. Jenkins

Benjamin Hebblethwaite's Vodou songs in Haitian creole and English - Matthew J. Smith

Ishion Hutchinson's far district poems - Harold McDermott

Notes on contributions


Journal of West Indian Literature
Vol. 20, No. 2, April 2012

Introduction - Stephanie Decouvelaere and Malachi McIntosh

The other Sam Selvon - Kenneth Ramchand

Sam Selvon's The lonely Londoners: White sexual desire and the Calypso aesthetic - Kate Houlden

A portrait of the artist: Sam Selvon in the work of Cyril Dabydeen and Kamau Brathwaite - Melanie Otto

The island and the world: Kinship, friendship and living together in selected writings of Sam Selvon - Alison Donnell

"A man who knows his capabilities and his limitations is benign to Papa Bois": On omniscience, autonomy and paternal authority in Turn again tiger and those who eat the Cascadura - Lewis Macleod

A brighter sun: "I still want to see how the story unfolds" - Conversations with a novel - Vahni Capildeo

Book reviews
Dennis Scott. After-Image. - Harold McDermott

Kezia Page. Transnational negotiations in Caribbean diasporic literature: Remitting the text - Donnette Francis

Notes on contributors


Journal of West Indian Literature
Vol. 20, No. 1, November 2011

JWIL: Celebrating twenty-five years of publishing - Mark McWatt, Edward Baugh, Daryl Dance, Ted Chamberlin, Daniel Coleman, Faith Smith and Raphael Dalleo

"All strangers hers": 'Native' as invasive in the the poetry of Derek Walcott - Mac Fenwick

Reading revival sounds: Kei Miller's The last warner woman - Amorella Lamount

Representations of history in Michelle Cliff's and Patrick Chamoiseau's novels - Veronique Maisier

Sex, silence, and colonial violence: The Amnesiac white women of Witchbroom - Rachel Mordecai

Book reviews

Thank you to Curdella Forbes

Angella Barry. Goree: Point of departure. - Carol Bailey

Donnette Francis. Fictions of feminine citizenship: Sexuality and the nation in contemporary Caribbean literature. - Elena Machado Saez

Patricia Powell. The fullness of everything. - Michael Bucknor

Notes on contributors


Journal of West Indian Literature
Vol. 19, No. 2, April 2011

Shani Mootoo: Writing, difference and the Caribbean - Denise DeCaires Narain, Alison Donnell and Evelyn O'Callaghan

Multisensory poetics and politics in Shani Mootoo's The wild woman in the woods and Valmiki's daughter - Donna McCormack

Reading through shame: Shani Mootoo's Cereus blooms at night - Rebecca Ashworth

Politicising paradise: Sites of resistance in Cereus blooms at night - Lorna Burns

"Courting strangeness": Queerness and diaspora in Out on Main street and he drown she in the sea' - Emily L. Taylor

(Un) Manacled sexuality! Shani Mootoo's Cereus blooms at night as a queer bildungsroman? - Eddie Whyte

'In her own words: Shani Mootoo on migration, writing and the human spirit' - Caryn Rae Adams

Book reviews

Jacqueline Bishop. Snapshots from Istanbul. - Tanya Shirley

Andrea Elizabeth Shaw. The embodiment of disobedience: Fat black women's unruly political bodies. - Loretta Collins Klobah

Mervyn Morris and Jimmy Carnegie, compilers and editors. Lunchtime medley: Writings on West Indian cricket. - Jenni R. Anderson

Kei Miller. A light song of light. - Alison Donnell

Notes on contributors


Journal of West Indian Literature
Vol. 18, No. 2, April 2010

Acknowledgements

Introduction - Jean Antoine-Dunne

"Maps made in the heart": Caribbeans of our desire - Edward Baugh

"You'll find no finger posts to point you to our place": Mapping the literary and critical terrain - Evelyn O'Callaghan

Pote mak, sonje - Rose-Ann Walker

"You'll soon get used to our language": Language, parody and West Indian identity in Andrea Levy's Small Island - Cynthia James

The Caribbean writer as nomadic subject: Spatial mobility and the dynamics of critical thought - Sandra Pouchet Paquet

Sound and vision in the Caribbean imaginary - Jean Antoine-Dunne

(Un)clothing Maccomere man: Female body as detour for new language- Space of male homosexuality - Charleston Thomas

From Beowul to Bounty Killa: Or how I ended up studying slackness - Carolyn Cooper

Vultures, vixens, and villains: Women negotiating identities in Hispanic Caribbean short narratives - Nicole Roberts

"The half has never been told": Revisioning West Indian history in Myal - Michelene Adams

Book review
Jennifer Rahim. Songster and other stories - Jean Antoine-Dunne

Notes on contributors




Journal of West Indian Literature
Vol. 18, No. 1, November 2009

Preface - Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo

Slackness and a mento aesthetic: Louise Bennet's trickster petics and Jamaican women's explorations of sexuality. - Shalene M. Vasquez

Interview with Donna (Aza) Weir-Soley, author of First rain and Eroticism, spirituality, and Resistance in Black women's writing. - Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo

Vernacular literacy and formal analysis: Louise Bennett-Coverley's Jamaican english verse. - Katherine Verhagen Rodis

Interrogating conceptualizations of gender in the shaping of a nation, as presented in Miss Lou's monologues. - Aisha T. Spencer

Book reviews

Thomas Glave, ed. Our Caribbean: A gathering of lesbian and gay writing from the Antilles. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009. Claiming their own: Righting perceptions of Caribbean sexuality. - Paulette A. Ramsay

Jacob Ross. Pynter Bender. London: Harper Perennial, 2008. Seeing beyond blindness, speaking beyond silence: A review of Pynter Bender. - Antonia MacDonald Smythe

Edwigde Danticat. Brother, I'm dying. New York: Knopf, 2007. - Whitney B. Edwards

Notes on contributors


Journal of West Indian Literature
Vol. 17, No. 2, April 2009

Introduction
(Ap) Praising Louise Bennett: Jamaica, Panama, and beyond - Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo

Love letter to Miss Lou: Memories intersect history - Opal Palmer Adisa

The lickle space of the tramcar in Louise Bennett's feminist postcolonial poetics - Janet Neigh

Looking in: Louise Bennett's pioneering Caribbean postcolonial discourse - Carol Bailey

Coming home through sound: See-Hear aesthetics in the poetry of Louise Bennett and Canadian dub poets - Susan Gingell

Louise Bennett: The national poet as transnational? - Jahan Ramazani

Book reviews
Mervyn Morris. I been there, sort of: New and selected poems. Dennis Scott. After-image. - Laurence A. Breiner

Erna Brodber. The rainmaker's mistake. - Patrick Goodin

Curdella Forbes. A permanent freedom. - Lisa Brown

Notes on contributors


Journal of West Indian Literature
Vol. 17, No. 1, November 2008

Writing and reading: Intertextuality and the anxieties of interpretation in Mark McWatt's Suspended Sentences - Andrew Armstrong

Landscape and genre in the Caribbean canon: Creolizing the poetics of place and paradise - Lorna Burns

Lamming, Marx and Hegel - Richard Clarke

Bita plant as literary intellectual: The anticolonial public sphere and banana bottom - Raphael Dalleo

Book reviews

Alison Donnell. Twentieth century Caribbean literature: Critical moments in Anglophone literary history. - Curdella Forbes

Velma Pollard. Leaving traces. - Donald Cleary

David Chariandy. Soucouyant: A novel of forgetting. - Donette Francis

Leah Rosenberg. Nationalism and the formation of Caribbean literature. - Raphael Dalleo

Lorna Goodison. From Harvey river: A memoir of my mother and her island. - Maureen Warner Lewis

Notes on contributors



Journal of West Indian Literature
Vol. 16, No. 2, April 2008

Tradition, the critic, and cross-cultural poetics: Wilson Harris as literary theorist - Norval (Nadi) Edwards

The teacher's quest: Performance and pedagogy in Earl Lovelace's Salt - Laura Selph

Interview with VS Naipaul: Writer and critical thinker - Dr. Bhoendradatt Tewarie

A note on some rhetorical traditions in Michael Smith's poetry - Eric Doumerc

Book reviews
Myriam Chancy: The scorpion's claw - Carol Bailey

Renee Larrier: Autofiction and advocacy in the Francophone Caribbean - Lorna Margaret Burns

Stephen N. Cobham: Rupert Gray: A tale in black and white - Harold N. McDermott

Linda Lang-Peralta, ed. Jamaica Kincaid and Caribbean double crossings. - Antonia MacDonald Smythe

Judy Stone ed.: Under the perfume tree: Stories weaving patterns of lives past. - Mary Hanna

Notes on contributors


Journal of West Indian Literature
Vol. 16, No. 1, November 2007

Pregnant possibilities: The boundary-shattering transformation of the Caribbean woman in Brodber's Jane and Louisa will soon come home and Harris's The whole armour - Deborah Booth Summers

"A novel speculation: Mary Seacole's Ambitious adventures in the new Granada gold mining company" - Jessica Damian

Writing memory: Edwidge Danticat's limbo inscriptions - Semia Harbawi

Postcolonial shamanism: Wilson Harris's quantum poetics and ethics - Syed Manzu Islam

The colonial state apparatus of the school: Development, education, and mimicry in Patrick Chamoiseau's Une Enfance Creole II: Chemin-d'Ecole and V.S. Naipaul's Miguel street - Roberto Strongman

Book reviews

Kim Robinson-Walcott, Out of order!: Anthony Winkler and White West Indian writing - Mary Hanna

Brent Hayes Edwards, The practice of diaspora: Literature, translation, and the rise of black internationalism - Neil ten Kortenaar

Kei Miller, Kingdom of empty bellies. Lasana M. Sekou, 37 poems. - Andrea E. Shaw

Notes on contributors


Journal of West Indian Literature
Vol. 15, No. 1 & 2, November 2006

Editorial: Evelyn O'Callaghan, Victor Chang

Edward Baugh: Profile

Literary theory and the Caribbean: Theory, belief and desire, or designing theory - Eddie Baugh

Confessions of a critic - Eddie Baugh

Fall away iron filings - Lorna Goodison

Naming of flowers - Lorna Goodison

Windrush Sankey - Lorna Goodison

Edward Baugh: The critic as mediator - Nadi Edwards

Orator Baugh - Mervyn Morris

Poet Eddie - Laurence Breiner

Fractured epiphanies: Memory, mourning and loss in Edward Baugh's It was the singing - Cordella Forbes

Everybody get flat - A dub - Pamela Mordecai

Crucial concern - Pamela Mordecai

Edward Baugh's literary and cultural criticism - Glyne Griffith

Edward Baugh: Bibliography

Warner woman too (after Lamour and for Eddie Baugh of the original warner woman) - Velma Pollard

View up through her window ( for Olive Senior) - Velma Pollard

Montserrat - Velma Pollard

White women's sins or patterns of choice and consequence in the two endings of Voyage in the dark - Mary Hanna

The worthy and the worthless: Books and people in late Victorian England - J. Edward Chamberlin

A tale of three places - Helen Tiffin

'What the backside all you want?': Interrogating Rastafari in Derek Walcott's O Babylon! - Carolyn Cooper

The first house - Olive Senior

Taino Genesis - Olive Senior

Cassava/Yuca - Olive Senior

Peppercorn - Olive Senior

Book reviews
Olive Senior. Over the roofs of the world - Jean D'Costa

Evelyn O'Callaghan. Women writing the West Indies, 1804-1939: A hot place, belonging to us - Alison Donnell

Mark McWatt. Suspended sentences: Fictions of atonement - Lisa Brown

Charles W. Pollard. New world modernisms: T.S. Eliot, Derek Walcott, and Kamau Brathwaite - J. Dillon Brown

Three poems of childhood in Guyana's North-west (for Edward Baugh) - Mark McWatt

Notes on contributors

Notices


Journal of West Indian Literature
Vol. 14, No. 1 & 2, November 2005

Introduction: Rooting and routing Caribbean-Canadian writing - Michael A. Bucknor and Daniel Coleman

"I must feed from my roots": A conversation with Roger Ferreira - Elizabeth Jackson

Towards a Caribbean-Canadian post-national: Olive Senior and Gardening in the Tropics - Jordan Stouck

The poem as Gardening, the story as Su-Su: Finding a literary voice - Olive Senior

"I too am not a bit tamed": Flora, fauna, and folk culture in Olive Senior's Over the roofs of the world - Kim Dismont Robinson

In case of national emergency, deploy ethnicity and class as floatation devices - Patricia Saunders

Queer nostalgia and unnatural disgust in Shani Mootoo's Cereus blooms at night - John Corr

Fantastic alternatives: Journeys into the imagination
A conversation with Nalo Hopkinson - Hyacinth Simpson

Experiences of arrival: Jewishness and Caribbean-Canadian identity in Austin Clarke's The meeting point - Sarah Phillips Casteel

"That's what you want, isn't it?": Austin Clarke and the new politics of recognition - David Chariandy

M. NourbeSe Philip: Language, place, and exile - Kristen Mahlis

Trying tongues, E-raced identities, and the possibilities of be/longing: Conversations with NourbeSe Philip - Patricia Saunders

"Always a poem, once a book": Motivations and strategies for print textualizing of Caribbean-Canadian Dub and performance poetry - Susan Gingell

Does (Afro-) Caribbean-Canadian literature exist? In the Caribbean? - George Elliott Clarke

A bibliography of Caribbean-Canadian literature - Ezra Yoo-Hyeok Lee

Notes on Contributors


Journal of West Indian Literature
Vol. 11, No. 1, November 2002

Editorial - Michael A. Bucknor

The end of Nationalism? Performing the question in Benitez-Rojo's The repeating Island and Glissant's Poetics of Relation - Curdella Forbes

Sex and sexuality in the English Caribbean novels - Survey from 1950 - Rosamond S. King

How shall the history of West Indian literature be told? - Laurence A. Breiner

Louis Simpson in Jamaica: An interview - Edward Baugh and Ralph Thompson

Book review: Velma Pollard's The best philosophers I know can't read or write - Jean D'Costa

Book review: Kwame Dawes' Natural mysticism: Towards a new reggae aesthetic in Caribbean writing - Rehana Ahmed

Notes on contributors


Journal of West Indian Literature
Vol. 10, No. 1 & 2, November 2001

Editorial

Sylvia Wynter: A transculturalist rethinking modernity - Demetrius Eudell and Carolyn Allen

Report from beyond the aesthetic zip code zone. To: Sylvia Wynter - Clyde Taylor

"Talking about a little culture": Sylvia Wynter's early essays - Norval Edwards

Not to exist without interpretation of meaning: The counter-modernist challenge of Sylvia Wynter - Keith Louis Walker

Blackness: Modernity's alter ego
An archaeological approach to understanding the racialized other in Hispanic (Con) texts - Patricia D. Fox

Sex/sexuality & Sylvia Wynter's beyond ...: Anti-colonial ideas in "Black radical tradition" - Greg Thomas

A second failed reconstruction?: The counter reformation of African American studies, a Treason on black studies - Jason E. Glenn


Journal of West Indian Literature
Vol. 9, No. 28, April 2001

Editorial

C.L.R. James, Alfred H. Mendes and "La Diablesse" - Michele Levy

La Diablesse - C.L.R. James

The rise of the Beacon group: extract from Ralph de Boissiere's (as yet unpublished) autobiography

Man sweet, woman stronger: Calypso's war with yard fiction - Leah Rosenberg

Anthony Winkler: Searching for the centre - Kim Robinson Walcott

Select bibliography of the literature of the english-speaking Caribbean, 1999

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