No. 25 • January 2011
Image above: I Am Not Afraid to Fight a Perfect Stranger (2009), by John Cox; acrylic on canvas, 167.6 x 274.3 cm
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ReviewsNecessary danger
Brendan de Caires on Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work, by Edwidge Danticat
Into the deep
Edward Baugh on Undraining Sea, by Vahni Capildeo
Shades of history
F.S.J. Ledgister on A Black Soldier’s Story: The Narrative of Ricardo Batrell and the Cuban War of Independence, ed. and trans. Mark A. Sanders
Ghetto geographies
Nadia Ellis on DanceHall: From Slave Ship to Ghetto, by Sonjah Stanley Niaah
Creole to the world
Dylan Kerrigan on Globalisation and the Post-Creole Imagination: Notes on Fleeing the Plantation, by Michaeline A. Crichlow
How sweet it is
Ronald Cummings on Thiefing Sugar: Eroticism Between Women in Caribbean Literature, by Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley
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The 2010 CRB books of the year
The CRB’s editors recommend eleven outstanding books from last year
TRIBUTE
Homme du tout-monde
J. Michael Dash on Édouard Glissant (1928–2011), Martiniquan poet, novelist, and essayist
CONVERSATION
“We are on the verge of listening”
Earl Lovelace talks to B.C. Pires about his long-awaited new novel Is Just a Movie, and acknowledging the importance of rebellion
ON VIEW
Belonging to in-between
Jerry Philogene reviews Wrestling with the Image: Caribbean Interventions, curated by Christopher Cozier and Tatiana Flores, at the Art Museum of the Americas
NOTEBOOK
Tomorrow and the world
Nicholas Laughlin on reading Martin Carter’s poems while watching the 2011 Egyptian uprising
SCREENING NOTES
In her solitude
Jonathan Ali reviews The Solitary Alchemist, directed by Mariel Brown
LISTENING IN
• Alastair Bird on the reissue of Eddie Hooper’s “Pass It On” and “Tomorrow’s Sun”, and disco’s Caribbean connections