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CARIBBEAN LITERATURE IN TRANSITION, – The period from the s to the present day has produced an extraordinarilyrichanddiversebodyofCaribbeanwritingthathasbeen widely acclaimed. Caribbean Literature in Transition traces the region’s contemporary writings across the established genres of prose,poetry,fictionanddramaintoemergingareasofcreativenonfic tion, memoir and speculative fiction with a particular attention on challengingthenarrowcanonofanglophonemalewriters.Itmapsshifts and continuities between late twentieth and early twentyfirstcentury Caribbean literature in terms of innovations in literary form and style, thechangingroleandplaceofthewriter,andshiftsinourunderstand ingsofwhatconstitutesthepoliticalterrainoftheliteraryanditssitesof struggle.Whilstreachingacrosslanguagedividesandmultiplediasporas, it shows how contemporary Caribbean literature has focused its atten tionsonsocialcomplexityandongoingmarginalizationsinitscontinued preoccupationswithidentity,belongingandfreedoms. is Associate Professor of Postcolonial Studies in the Department of English Language and Literature at Brock University. His work focuses on representations of marronage and queerness in Caribbean literature. His work has been published in Small Axe, The Journal of Postcolonial Writing, the Journal of West Indian Literature and Transforming Anthropology. He is co editor of the Literature Encyclopedia volume on Anglophone Writing and Culture of Central America and the Caribbean (https://www .litencyc.com). He has also edited Make the World New: The Poetry ofLillian Allen (). isProfessorofModernLiteraturesinEnglishand HeadoftheSchoolofLiterature,DramaandCreativeWritingatthe UniversityofEastAnglia.ShehaspublishedwidelyonCaribbeanand Black British writings, with a particular emphasis on challenging orthodox literary histories and recovering women’s voices. She is the author of Twentieth Century Caribbean Literature () and Caribbean Queer: Creolized Sexualities and the Literary Imagination in the Anglo-Caribbean (), as well as coeditor (with Michael A. Bucknor) of The Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean Literature (). She leads a major project funded by the Leverhulme Trust: ‘Caribbean Literary Heritage: recovering the lost pastandsafeguardingthefuture’. Published online by Cambridge University Press General Editor AlisonDonnell, Universityof East Anglia Caribbean Literature in Transition ambitiously redefines received ideas of this region’s literary traditions to present a significantly expanded terrain for critical intervention. By extending the chronology back to , before either the Caribbean or Literature had been imagined in their present currencies, challeng ing narrow definitions of literary production, and reaching across linguistic divides, the critical interventions that comprise this series deliver a substantially new framework for future study and research. Boldly inclusive, Caribbean Literature in Transition attends to transformations in genre, language, form, and platform as well as to the intricate creative intersections between oral, performative and literary cultures, the intensity of cultural encounters and exchanges that have forged creolized sensibilities, and the complex patterning of localandglobaldiasporasthathaveremainedcentraltoCaribbeanexperienceand havecontinuedtoshapetheproductionandreceptionofitswritings.Theessays collected here explore how Caribbean literary history is marked by returning creative and critical preoccupations, as well as overlapping local and global connections inscribed by thick histories of oppression and resistance. The series importantlyrefreshesunderstandingsofthishistoryforthetwenty firstcenturyby drawing on the invigorating theoretical insights of Black Atlantic studies, queer studies, eco criticism and the digital humanities, as well as historical materials newly restored by the archival turn in Caribbean Studies. In sum, Caribbean Literature in Transition both generates fresh approaches to familiar works and brings overlookedand forgotten works into view. Booksin the series . CaribbeanLiterature inTransition, Edited by ’ and . CaribbeanLiterature inTransition, Edited by and . CaribbeanLiterature inTransition, Edited by and Published online by Cambridge University Press CARIBBEAN LITERATURE – IN TRANSITION, RONALD CUMMINGS BrockUniversity ALISON DONNELL UniversityofEastAnglia Published online by Cambridge University Press UniversityPrintingHouse,Cambridge,UnitedKingdom OneLibertyPlaza,thFloor,NewYork,,USA WilliamstownRoad,PortMelbourne,,Australia –,rdFloor,Plot,SplendorForum,JasolaDistrictCentre,NewDelhi–,India AnsonRoad,#–/,Singapore CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learning,andresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/ :./ ©CambridgeUniversityPress Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished PrintedintheUnitedKingdombyTJBooksLimited,PadstowCornwall AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. ----Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracy ofURLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. Published online by Cambridge University Press Contents List of Illustrations page viii Contributors ix Acknowledgements xvi Introduction: Caribbean Assemblages, s– RonaldCummingsand Alison Donnell Writing and the Responsibility to Memory: The Role of White Female Planters in Contemporary Caribbean Novels Tanya L. Shields Caribbean Identities and Diversifying the Creole Mix Shivanee Ramlochan Carnival, Calypso and Dancehall Cultures: Making the Popular Political in Contemporary Caribbean Writing Emily Zobel Marshall Life Writing, Gender and Caribbean Narrative –: Itinerant Self-Making in the Postcolonial Caribbean Denise deCairesNarain Forwarding Dubpoetry in This Generation: A Grassroots Performance and Neo-Literary Genre in Transition Susan Gingell Postcolonial Ruins, Reconstructive Poetics: Caribbean Urban Imaginaries Christopher Winks v Published online by Cambridge University Press vi Contents Reimagining Caribbean Time and Space: Speculative Fiction Rebecca Romdhani Caribbean Drama and Performance Justine McConnell Here Are the Others: Caribbean Creative Nonfiction Kei Miller ‘Let Every Child Run Wild’: Cultural Identity and the Role of the Child in Caribbean Children’s and Young Adult Fiction Aisha TakiyahSpencer Caribbean Feminist Criticism: Towards a New Canon of Caribbean Feminist Theory and Theorizing Simone A.James Alexander Writing of and for a Revolution AlisonDonnell and Nalini Mohabir Digital Yards: Caribbean Writing on Social Media and Other Digital Platforms Kelly BakerJosephs Developing and Sustaining Literary Publics: Prizes, Festivals and New Writing Ifeona Fulani The Caribbean and Britain Sarah Lawson Welsh Acts of Trespass and Collapsing Borders: Alternate Landscapes in Contemporary Caribbean-Canadian Literature Camille A.Isaacs The Caribbean and the United States Jocelyn Fenton Stitt Published online by Cambridge University Press Contents vii The Caribbean and the Tourist Gaze Supriya M. Nair Caribbean Subjects in the World Kezia A.Page Dialogic Connections in Caribbean Literature and Visual Art Marta Fernández Campa From Countertextuality to Intertextuality: Continuing the Caribbean Canon Emily L. Taylor Caribbean Eco-Poetics: The Categorial Imperative and Indifference in the Caribbean Environment Keja L. Valens Sexual Subjects Faizal Deen and RonaldCummings Caribbean Literature and Literary Studies: Past, Present and Future Alison Donnell Bibliography Index Published online by Cambridge University Press List of Illustrations .. Frankétienne, Untitled (). Oil on canvas. Cover image of Ready to Burst (), English translation of Mûr à crever () by Kaiama L. Glover. Courtesy of Frankétienne and Archipelago Books. page .. Sonia Farmer and Shivanee Ramlochan, The Red Thread Cycle, Book I (). Artist book. Photo credit: Dominic Duncombe. Courtesy of Sonia Farmer and Shivanee Ramlochan. .. Sonia Farmer and Shivanee Ramlochan, The Red Thread Cycle, Book V (). Artist book. Photo credit: Jackson Petit-Homme, The National Gallery of the Bahamas. Courtesy of Sonia Farmer and Shivanee Ramlochan. .. Christopher Cozier, The Castaway, from the Tropical Night series (-present). Mixed media drawings. Courtesy of Christopher Cozier. .. Christopher Cozier, Hop, Skip, Jump, from the Tropical Night series (-present). Mixed media drawings. Courtesy of Christopher Cozier. .. Kevin A. Browne, Tracey Sankar admonishes the photographer, or whoever she imagines will see the image. Photography. Port of Spain, . Courtesy of Kevin A. Browne. .. Kevin A. Browne, Stephanie Kanhai and Jonadiah Gonzales. Photography. Usine-Ste. Madeline Cooling Towers, Ste. Madeline, July . Courtesy of Kevin A. Browne. viii Published online by Cambridge University Press Contributors . is Professor of English, Africana Studies and Women and Gender Studies, affiliate member of the Russian and East European Studies Program and Latin America and Latino/Latina StudiesatSetonHallUniversity,NewJersey.Alexanderistheauthorof the award-winning book, African Diasporic Women’s Narratives: Politics of Resistance, Survival and Citizenship (), which also received an HonourableMentionbytheAfricanLiteratureAssociationBookofthe YearScholarshipAward.AlexanderisalsotheauthorofMotherImagery intheNovelsofAfro-CaribbeanWomen()andco-editorofFeminist and Critical Perspectives on Caribbean Mothering (). Her articles have appeared in African American Review, Anglistica: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women’s andGenderStudies,NewMangoSeason:AJournalofCaribbeanWomen’s Writing, Revista Review InterAmericana, African Literature Association Bulletin, and various edited collections. Her current book projects include Black Freedom in (Communist) Russia: Great Expectations, Utopian Visions and Bodies of (In)Difference: Gender, Sexuality, and Nationhood. ˊ , PhD, is currently Senior Research Associate at the University of East Anglia. Her research has a comparative and interdisciplinary focus on how contemporary Caribbean writers and visual artists engage critically with historical memory. Her current research examines the role of literary archives and the possibilities of born-digital practice for the future preservation and scholarship of Caribbean writers’ manuscripts. She has published articles, reviews and interviews in Arc Magazine, Anthurium, Callaloo and Small Axe and has been the recipient of fellowships from the Fulbright Commission and the Center for the Humanities at the University of Miami. ix Published online by Cambridge University Press x List of Contributors teaches queer and postcolonial literatures in the department of English at Brock University. His work focuses on repre- sentations of marronage and queerness in Caribbean literature. His work has been published in Small Axe, the Journal of Postcolonial Writing, the Journal of West Indian Literature and Transforming Anthropology. He is co-editor of the Literature Encyclopedia volume on ‘Anglophone Writing and Culture of Central America and the Caribbean’. He has also edited Make the World New: The Poetry of Lillian Allen (). was born in Georgetown, Guyana, and immigrated to Canada in the late s. Faizal studied English Literature and Language at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, and is working on a new poetry collection, The Waiting Country. In Faizal pub- lished what became Guyana’s first LGBTQ poetry collection, Land Without Chocolate: A Memoir, shortlisted by the Quebec Writers Federation for the A. M. Klein Prize in Poetry. Faizal currently lives in Ottawa. isProfessorofModernLiteraturesinEnglishandHead of School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing at the University ofEastAnglia.ShehaspublishedwidelyonCaribbeanandblackBritish writings, with a particular emphasis on challenging orthodox literary historiesand recovering women’s voices. Sheis theauthor of Twentieth Century Caribbean Literature: Critical Moments in Anglophone Literary and Critical History () and Creolized Sexualities: Undoing Heteronormativity in the Literary Imagination of the Anglo-Caribbean (), as well as co-editor (with Michael A. Bucknor) of The Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean Literature (). She is the lead researcher on a major project funded by the Leverhulme Trust: ‘Caribbean Literary Heritage: Recovering the Lost Past and Safeguarding the Future’, www.caribbeanliteraryheritage.com. teaches in the Global Liberal Studies Program at New YorkUniversity.HerresearchinterestsincludeCaribbean,African,and black British literatures and cultures, and her recent publications include an edited volume of essays, Archipelagos of Sound: TransnationalCaribbeanities,WomenandMusic()aswellasschol- arlyarticlespublishedinAtlanticStudies,CaribbeanQuarterly,Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies, Small Axe and Anthurium. She is also a creativewriterandauthorofacollectionofshortstoriestitledTenDays Published online by Cambridge University Press
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