Issues

Includes essays by Saidiya Hartman, Robert Hill, Michael Hanchard, Joscelyn Gardner, Patricia Saunders, Marlene Daut, and Karen Richman. Poems by M. NourbeSe Philip. Visual essay by Annalee Davis and Blue Curry. Book discussion of Silvio Torres-Saillant’s An Intellectual History of the Caribbean. 

Includes essays by Nadi Edwards, Mindie Lazarus-Black, Shirley Toland-Dix, Corinna McLeod, Michael West. Book discussion of An Eye for the Tropics: Tourism, Photography, and Framing the Caribbean Picturesque by Krista A. Thompson.

Features essays by Robert Hill, Mimi Sheller, Winnifred Brown-Glaude, Jocelyn Fenton Stitt, Veerle Poupeye, and Alanna Lockward. Book discussion of M. Jacqui Alexander’s Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred with essays by Tracy Robinson, Faith Smith, Michelle Rowley and a response by M. Jacqui Alexander. 

Includes essays by Sibylle Fischer, Veronica Marie Gregg, and Kevin Frank. Visual work by Edouard Duval Carrié and Christopher Cozier. Book discussion of Madison Smartt Bell’s, All Soul’s Rising, Master of the Crossroads, and The Stone that the Builder Refused. 

Special issue “On the Subject of Grenada” with essays by Merle Collins, Edward Cox, Nicole Philip, and David Omowalé Franklyn. Short stories by Esther O’Neale and Shirley Brathwaite. Artwork by Susan Mains. Poems by Christine Clarkson. 

Features essays by Glenn Elmer Griffin, Brinda Mehta, Kezia Page, Ashley Dawson, Wendy Knepper, Vivian Nun Halloran, Sharon L. Green, and Donna Hope. Book discussion of Carolyn Cooper’s Sound Clash: Jamaican Dancehall Culture at Large. Visual work by Dionne Benjamin-Smith. Poetry by Christian Campbell. 

Includes essays by Jennifer Rahim, Raphael Dalleo, Nicole Matos, David Scott, Angeletta Gourdine, Maria Cristina Fumagalli, and Peter Patrick. Features an interview with Rex Nettleford by David Scott and a book discussion of Michelle Stephens’s Black Empire: The Masculine Global Imaginary of Caribbean Intellectuals in the United States 1914-1962. 

Special issue on the topic “Crossing Borders of Language and Culture” guest-edited by Charles Carnegie and Samuel Martínez, with contributions by Jorge Giovannetti, Shona Jackson, Hilda Lloréns, Ingrid Reneau, Velma Pollard, and Samuel Furé Davis. Also features an interview with Sidney Mintz by Charles Carnegie. Book discussion of Shalini Puri’s The Caribbean Postcolonial: Social Equality, Post-Nationalism, and Cultural Hybridity. 

A special section guest-edited by Martin Munro and Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw on the topic “Profondes et nombreuses: Haiti, History, Culture, 1804-2004.” Includes essays by Maximilien Laroche, J. Michael Dash, and Marie-Agnès Sourieau, and a writer’s roundtable with Dany Laferrière, Louis-Philippe Dalembert, Edwidge Danticat, and Evelyne Trouillot.