Issues

Preface: Why Palestine Matters . . . for Caribbean Studies

David Scott

The Drama of Unresolved Nearness: Derek Walcott’s The Sea at Dauphin as Asymptotic Imitation 

Gavin Herbertson 

Caribbean Feminist Ecological Thought and the Relational Life of Brackish Economies

Andrea N. Baldwin

The Irony of Forgetting: Gisèle Pineau’s Exile According to Julia 

Joel Akinwumi

Coolie Woman Dressed: Sartorial Practices and Textural Histories of Indenture

Subhalakshmi Gooptu

Social Inscriptions of the Natal in Slave Formation: Between “Social Death” and “Social Reproduction”

Ulrike Kistner

Keywords in Caribbean Studies: Spirituality

Spiritual Resistance and the Politics of Naming: Reclaiming Afro-Caribbean Identity in Curaçao

Rose Mary Allen

Honoring a Century of Vodou Konesans

Yanique Hume, Claudine Michel, Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken, and Cécile Accilien  

When the Spirit of Carnival Calls: Musings on Otherwise Relations 

N. Fadeke Castor 

Myrlande Constant: What Is Revealed with a Closer Look

Guest editors, Jerry Philogene and Katherine Smith

Introduction: Myrlande Constant, Kreyòl Beauty Revealed in a Closer Look

Jerry Philogene and Katherine Smith

Myrlande Constant and the Visual Art of Orchestral Rasanblaj

Carine Schermann

Myrlande Constant’s Bitasyon: Imagining Sacred Spaces in Haitian Art

Gabrielle Mary Jean-Louis

The Marasa Principle in Myrlande Constant’s Ritual Flags, or How 1 + 1 = 3 in Haitian Vodou

Kyrah Malika Daniels

Personal and Collective Mourning in Constant’s 12 January Mural and in What Storm, What Thunder

Myriam J. A. Chancy

Ay Fout Tonnerre: Ode to Myrlande Constant’s Attachment to the Land

Gina Athena Ulysse

Translating the Caribbean

Beautiful Everywhere: A Translator’s Perspective on We Slaves of Surinam

David McKay

Translating Habitus by Radna Fabias

David Colmer

Visualities

Maur Project

Dhiradj Ramsamoedj

Book Discussion—Caribbean Queer Criticisms: Nikoli A. Attai, Defiant Bodies; Matthew Chin, Fractal Repair; Krystal Nandini Ghisyawan, Erotic Cartographies; Preity R. Kumar, An Ordinary Landscape of Violence

At the Crossroads of Caribbean and Queer

Matthew Chin

Ordinary Violence: Queer Survival in the Caribbean

Preity R. Kumar

Defiantly Beautiful Queer Praxes of Resistance in the Anglophone Caribbean

Nikoli A. Attai

Toward a Queer Caribbean Cartography

Krystal Nandini Ghisyawan