Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1970-2020: Volume 3

Ronald Cummings 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 Alison Donnell is Professor of Modern Literatures in English and Head of School of Literature, Creative Writing and Drama at the University of East Anglia. She has published widely on Caribbean and 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 (2006) and Caribbean Queer: Creolized Sexualities and the Literary Imagination in the Anglo-Caribbean (2021), as well as co-editor (with Michael A. Bucknor) of The Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean Literature (2011). She leads a major project funded by the Leverhulme Trust: 'Caribbean Literary Heritage: recovering the lost past and safeguarding the future'.

• Introduction. Caribbean Assemblages: 1970s-2020 Alison Donnell and Ronald Cummings; Part I. Literary and Generic Transitions: 1. Writing and the Responsibility to Memory: The Role of White Female Planters in Contemporary Caribbean Novels Tanya L. Shields; 2. Caribbean Identities and Diversifying the Creole Mix Shivanee Ramlochan; 3. Carnival, Calypso, and Dancehall Cultures: Making the Popular Political in Contemporary Caribbean Writing Emily Zobel Marshall; 4. Life Writing, Gender and Caribbean Narrative 1970-2015: Itinerant Self-Making in the Postcolonial Caribbean Denise Decaires Narain; 5. Forwarding Dubpoetry in this Generation: A Grassroots Performance and Neo-Literary Genre in Transition Susan Gingell; 6. Postcolonial Ruins, Reconstructive Poetics: Caribbean Urban Imaginaries Christopher Winks; 7. Reimagining Caribbean Time and Space: Speculative Fiction Rebecca Romdhani; 8. Drama and Performance Justine Mcconnell; 9. Here are the Others: Caribbean Creative Nonfiction Kei Miller; 10. 'Let every child run wild': Cultural Identity and the Role of the Child in Caribbean Children's and Young Adult Fiction Aisha Takiyah Spencer; Part II. Cultural and Political Transitions: 11. Caribbean Feminist Criticism: Towards a New Canon of Caribbean Feminist Theory and Theorizing Simone A. James Alexander; 12. Writing of and for a Revolution Alison Donnell and Nalini Mohabir; 12. Digital Yards: Caribbean Writing on Social Media and Other Digital Platforms Kelly Baker Josephs; 13. Developing and Sustaining Literary Publics: Prizes, Festivals, and New Writing Ifeona Fulani; Part III. The Caribbean Region in Transition: 14. The Caribbean and Britain Sarah Lawson Welsh; 15. Acts of Trespass and Collapsing Borders: Alternate Landscapes in Contemporary Caribbean-Canadian Literature Camille A. Isaacs; 16. The Caribbean and the United States Jocelyn Fenton Stitt; 17. The Caribbean and the Tourist Gaze Supriya M. Nair; 18. Caribbean Subjects in the World Kezia A. Page; Part IV. Critical Transitions: 19. Visuality in Caribbean Literature and Visual Culture Marta Fernández Campa; 20. From Counter-Textuality to Intertextuality: Continuing the Caribbean Canon Emily L. Taylor; 21. Caribbean Eco-Poetics: The Categorial Imperative and Indifference in the Caribbean Environment Keja L. Valens; 22. Sexual Subjects Faizal Deen and Ronald Cummings; 23. Caribbean Literature and Literary Studies: Past, Present, and Future Alison Donnell; Bibliography; Index.

'Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1970–2020 will remain a rich source for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and scholars within Caribbean studies, diaspora studies, postcolonial studies, and performance studies who are interested in the political, cultural, and social life of the literary imagination … this volume functions as a necessary reflection on some of the major developments in Caribbean literary production over the past fifty years.' Jovante Anderson, Journal of West Indian Literature