Lexington Books
Pages: 118
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Trim: 6¼ x 9½
978-1-7936-0715-7 • Hardback • August 2020 • $94.00 • (£72.00)
978-1-7936-0716-4 • eBook • August 2020 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
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’Dell
Chapter 1: World Literature or Littérature-monde: A Pedagogical Approach to Maryse Condé’s Victoire, les saveurs et les mots: récit, Kristina S. Gibby
Chapter 2: In and Out of the Academic Ghetto: Overcoming Segregation and Embracing Marginalisation in the Teaching of Caribbean Literature at a UK University, Hazel Mackenzie
Chapter 3: “Once Upon a Time, in a Nearby Hell”: Roxane Gay’s An Untamed State and Reading, Writing, and Teaching Haiti, Christopher Garland
Chapter 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
Chapter 8: The Poetics of Liminality in Alfred Alexandre’s Le bar des Amériques, Jeanne Jégousso
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.
— Solimar Otero, Indiana University-Bloomington
Jeanne Jégousso and Emily O’Dell question the dismemberment of Caribbean studies over the recent decades and call for a Pan-Caribbean perspective that moves beyond the traditional linguistic and national divide in the Caribbean. A beautifully written book, proposing exciting new pedagogical and theoretical approaches to explore Caribbean texts.
— Charly Verstraet, University of Alabama at Birmingham