Teaching, Reading, and Theorizing Caribbean Texts

Emily A. O'Dell is lecturer of English at George College and State University.Jeanne Jégousso is assistant professor of French and Francophone studies at Hollins University.

• Introduction, Jeanne Jégousso and Emily O’DellChapter 1: World Literature or Littérature-monde: A Pedagogical Approach to Maryse Condé’s Victoire, les saveurs et les mots: récit, Kristina S. GibbyChapter 2: In and Out of the Academic Ghetto: Overcoming Segregation and Embracing Marginalisation in the Teaching of Caribbean Literature at a UK University, Hazel MackenzieChapter 3: “Once Upon a Time, in a Nearby Hell”: Roxane Gay’s An Untamed State and Reading, Writing, and Teaching Haiti, Christopher GarlandChapter 4: Dub, Saltfish, and Majah Hype: Caribbean Diaspora as a Praxis with Theory, Cathy Thomas Chapter 5: The Child Ethnographer in Autofictional Literature of the Spanish Caribbean: Esmeralda Santiago’s When I Was Puerto Rican, Emily O’Dell Chapter 6: Creolizing the Chasms of Humanity: Threshold Passages in Wilson Harris and Gloria Anzaldúa’s Cross-Cultural Poetics, Michael Grafals Chapter 7: Beyond the Scribal Canon: Re-inserting Caribbean Vernacular ‘Texts’ Into Theory, R. Anthony Lewis

Teaching, Reading, and Theorizing Caribbean Texts by Jeanne Jégousso and Emily O’Dell is a necessary companion to the consideration of Caribbean literature from transnational and translocal perspectives. The volume’s essays emphasize the polylingual and complex cultural contexts involved in the creation of Caribbean literature, and therefore, the necessary attenuation of these factors for its analysis. I recommend this book for anyone seeking innovative pedagogies in Caribbean Studies.