sx salon
Issue 29
October 2018
In their final issue of 2018, sx salon focused on 2018 as a Windrush year, what it meant for the Windrush generation and on “diverse perceptive on the precarious lives of the Windrush generation” (Introduction). This issue raises, and grapples with, questions of how to be in Caribbean diaspora.
sx salon: a small axe literary platform is a digital forum for innovative critical and creative explorations of Caribbean literature, broadly defined. Caribbean creative writing has always wrestled with the idea of an aesthetic form that engages regional and diasporic understandings of our changing realities. As a forum, sx salon aims to stimulate these sensibilities and preoccupations across different literary genres. Initiated in 2010, sx salon appears three times per year (February, June, and October) and publishes literary discussions, interviews with writers, reviews of new publications (creative and scholarly), and poetry and prose by Caribbean writers.
Table of Contents
Kelly Baker Josephs, Introduction and Table of Contents
Reviews
- Jennifer Brittan, “Sovereignty and Stagecraft in Panama and the Canal Zone.“
- Sebastian Charles Galbo, “(Re)claiming, Re(photographing) the Caribbean Figure.“
- Francisco E. Robles, “Illuminating Narratives of and by the Undocumented.“
- Matthew Scully, “The Power of the People.“
Discussion—Windrush
- H. Adlai Murdoch, “Enoch Powell, Stuart Hall, and Post-Windrush Caribbean Identity in Britain.“
- Ronald Cummings, “Johnnie’s Letters: Epistolary Practice in Andrew Salkey’s Escape to an Autumn Pavement.“
- Janice Cheddie, “Windrush Notes to my Younger Self.“
Poetry
- Ricia Anne Chansky
- Faizal Deen
- Sean Des Vignes
- Patrick Chamoiseau, translated by Jeffrey Landon Allen and Charly Verstraet
Interview
- Joshua Deckman, “El Ni’e: Inhabiting Love, Bliss, and Joy; A Conversation with Josefina Báez.“
- Chaya Bhuvaneswar, “I Want the Written Word to Glisten”: An Interview with Rajiv Mohabir.“
