November 8, 2007

“Shattered and yet somehow holding together” I’m a product of a fragmented world. Take a brief look at Dominican or Caribbean history and you’ll see that the structure of the book is more in keeping with the reality of this history than with its most popular myth: that of unity and continuity. In my mind [...]

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November 7, 2007

On the cover of the CRB: Noche Insular The cover of the November 2007 issue of the CRB features a detail of Noche Insular: Metamorfosis (2004-6, vermilion, xylograph, serigraph, varnish, mercury chromium on maps, dimensions variable), by the Cuban artist Ibrahim Miranda. Noche Insular is one of the works included in the exhibition Infinite Island: [...]

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November 7, 2007

On the IMPAC Dublin longlist The 2008 longlist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award has been announced. The 137 books from forty-five countries include two by Caribbean writers: Unburnable, by Marie-Elena John, and Jouvert, by Joy Mahabir. The judges need a few months to read through the list, understandably–the shortlist will be released in [...]

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November 3, 2007

Links, links, links – The editorial on V.S. Naipaul that the Stabroek News ran last Tuesday has provoked a long response in the paper’s letters columns from a writer named Abu Bakr (not, I hasten to add, the Trinidadian leader of the Jamaat Al-Muslimeen): The fact is we no longer approach V S Naipaul in [...]

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November 2, 2007

In the November/December Caribbean Beat The November/December issue of Caribbean Beat–that’s Trinidadian golfer Stephen Ames on the cover–is now online. Antilles readers may be particularly interested in the book reviews and James Ferguson’s article on René Maran, the Martiniquan writer whose novel Batouala won the Prix Goncourt in 1921. Your humble Antilles blogger has a [...]

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November 1, 2007

In the November 2007 CRB… The November 2007 issue of the CRB, no. 14, is now on its way to subscribers. You can see the contents page of this issue at the CRB website, and as usual selected pieces are posted online. In this issue: reviews of new biographies of Eric Williams and Toussaint L’Ouverture, [...]

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October 31, 2007

“Suriname is hard to get to” Audrey just nods. The flight is four hours late. She knows she’s already missed her connection in Port of Spain and must spend two days in Trinidad waiting for the next flight home. Suriname is hard to get to. Worse yet, it’s hard to get back to. The Fall [...]

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October 30, 2007

Stabroek on Naipaul Long live the Stabroek News, the only newspaper in the Caribbean that runs editorials in the form of book reviews. From today’s edition, on the new Naipaul: Naipaul … rescued himself from the clutches of ‘island “culture”‘ by writing his way into the tradition of the English novel–with enviable grace and humour, [...]

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October 29, 2007

The Caribbean Writer and the Antigua and Barbuda Lit Fest Issue number 22 of The Caribbean Writer, the annual literary journal published by the University of the Virgin Islands, has just been published. Their website hasn’t been updated yet with the new issue, but an article in the St Thomas Source offers a tiny peek [...]

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October 28, 2007

“I like the life” In today’s Sunday Express, B.C. Pires interviews Gordon Rohlehr, one of the indisputably major figures in Caribbean literary scholarship, who has just retired from UWI, St Augustine, after forty years. … Purely by chance, I had begun working in the calypso before I got here. One highpoint would have been when [...]

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October 27, 2007

Some links…. A work by Cuban artist Quisqueya Henríquez, included in The World Outside: A Survey Exhibition 1991-2007 – In the New York Times: Kaiama L. Glover reviews The Pirate’s Daughter, a new novel by Margaret Cezair-Thompson set on Jamaica’s Navy Island, once owned by Errol Flynn; and Ken Johnson reviews DR-based Cuban artist Quisqueya [...]

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