Issues

Issue guest-edited by Annie Paul and Krista Thompson on the topic “Caribbean Locales and Global Artworlds” with essays by Evelyn Carmen Ramos and Rocio Aranda Alvarado. Visual work by Peter Dean Rickards. Reviews of Gerard Aching’s Masking and Power, Mimi Sheller’s Consuming the Caribbean, and Okwui Enwezor’s et al. (eds.) Créolité and Creolization. 

Special Issue on “Guyana: The Present Against the Past” with essays by Alissa Trotz, Cary Fraser, Gemma Robinson, Nigel Westmaas, Nalini Persram, and Percy Hintzen. An interview with Andaiye by David Scott. Visual work by Roshini Kempadoo and Hew Locke.

Essays by David Scott, Shalini Puri, Bill Schwarz, Philip Nanton, and Kim Robinson-Walcott. Short fiction by Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw. Book discussion of Catherine Hall’s Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination, 1830-1867.  

Features essays by Belinda Edmondson, Winston James, Loretta Collins, Obika Gray, Patricia Saunders, and Wigmoore Francis. Short stories by Ifeona Fulani and Robert Edison Sandiford. Poetry by John Robert Lee and Cyril Dabydeen.  

Features essays by Heather Smyth, Deborah Thomas, Jenny Burman, and an interview with George Lamming by David Scott. Also includes reviews of Margaret Cezair-Thompson’s The True History of Paradise and Kamala Kempadoo’s edited volume Sun, Sex, and Gold: Tourism and Sex Work in the Caribbean.  

Focus on “The Frame of the Nation” guest-edited by Anthony Bogues with essays by Patricia Mohammad and Nadi Edwards. Short story by Jennifer Rahim. Book discussion of Paget Henry’s Caliban’s Reason.  

Includes essays by Glyne Griffith, Nalini Persram, Faith Smith, as well as an essay by Walter Rodney introduced by David Austin. An interview with Rupert Lewis by David Scott. Short story by Yanick Lahens.  

A feature on “The Caribbean Popular” guest-edited by Nadi Edwards with essays by Gordon Rohlehr, Curwen Best, Curdella Fordes, Loretta Collins, Carol Duncan, and Rinaldo Walcott. An interview with Black Stalin by Wintrop Holder. Visual essay on Don Drummond by Clinton Hutton.  

Includes essays by Rhonda Cobham and Catherine Hall. The 1971 “Lectures on the Black Jacobins” by C. L. R. James, with an introduction by Robert Hill. Poems by Kamau Brathwaite, and an interview with Sylvia Wynter by David Scott. Book discussion of Barry Higman’s Writing West Indian Histories.