The following Caribbean Studies journals published new issues this summer:
Caribbean Quarterly – Volume 66, Issue 2, June 2020
Small Axe – Volume 24, Number 2, July 2020
PREE Caribbean Writing – Issue 5, June 2020
SX Salon – Issue 34, June 2020
Below you will find details of each new issue:
Caribbean Quarterly – Volume 66, Issue 2, June 2020
“The impact, pervasiveness, and intractability of crime have become urgent everyday concerns for residents and researchers of the Caribbean. This special issue of Caribbean Quarterly (CQ) probes representations of crime in Caribbean fiction, language, history, popular culture and ethics to help us better understand how and why crime functions structurally and as social action across Caribbean worlds today.”
Table of Contents:
“Historical Truths / New Narratives”, Johnson, Leasho. 165-168.
“Introduction: Crime in Selected Caribbean Territories Culture and Representation”, Kerrigan, Dylan; Morgan, Paula. 169-176
Figuera, Renée. 258-280
Small Axe – Volume 24, Number 2, July 2020
“Small Axe focuses on the renewal of practices of intellectual criticism. It recognizes a tradition of social, political, and cultural criticism in and about regional/disasporic Caribbean and honors that tradition but also argues with it because it is through such argument that a tradition renews itself.”
Table of Contents:
Articles
“The Void, the Distance, Elsewhere: Literary Infrastructure and Empire in the Caribbean” Katerina Gonzalez Seligmann pp. 1-16″Translation in Caribbean Literature” Simona Bertacco pp. 17-34
“The Tambourine Army: Sonic Disruptions and the Politics of Respectability” Danielle Roper, Traci-Ann Wint pp. 35-52
“The Caribbean Scorpion: The Saint-Barthélemy Archive and Swedish Colonial Amnesia” Fredrik Thomasson pp. 53-66
States of Crisis: Disaster, Recovery, and Possibility in the Caribbean
“States of Crisis, Flags of Convenience: An Introduction” Ryan Cecil Jobson pp. 68-77
“Unlivable Life: Ordinary Disaster and the Atmosphere of Crisis in Haiti” Greg Beckett pp. 78-95″The Infrastructures of Liberation at the End of the World: A Reflection on Disaster in the Caribbean” Leniqueca A. Welcome pp. 96-109
“Caribbean Technological Thought and Climate Adaptation” Sarah E. Vaughn pp. 110-121″
“Debt, Crisis, and Resurgence in Puerto Rico” Adriana María Garriga-López pp. 122-132
“Disrepair, Distress, and Dispossession: Barbuda after Hurricane Irma” Natasha Lightfoot pp. 133-146
“Postdisaster Futures: Hopeful Pessimism, Imperial Ruination, and La futura cuir”Yarimar Bonilla pp. 147-16
Visualities
“Hacia Adentro” René Peña pp. 163-174
Book Discussion: Peter James Hudson, Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean
“On Bankers and Empire: Racial Capitalism, Antiblackness, and Antiradicalism Charisse Burden-Stelly” pp. 175-186
“Dark Finance, Dark People Brenda” Gayle Plummer pp. 187-196
“Rogue Bankers, Black Radicalism, and the Caribbean History of Racial Capitalism” Peter James Hudson pp. 197-207
Journal Link
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PREE Caribbean Writing – Issue 5, June 2020
“In this issue of PREE, we looked for explorations of what ecocide – crimes against nature — means to the Caribbean, including its non-human inhabitants. Must ecocide be permanent? Vast? If a waterfall dries up, does it matter, once the rain starts again one day? What value is created by natural places that arouse joy and awe in people and is that value confined to those who see them? Or are such locations merely commodities to be assessed by the entrance cashier? What about hidden things – like coral reefs? If they become rubble, will that matter if the sea remains those multitudinous colours of blue, providing a suitable background for selfies? What about the reptiles most of us hate?
Does ecocide require human intent or is the damage done to a reef by dredging for a cruise ship pier no different to that wrought by a hurricane? Are our island homes going to remain habitable long into the future or will the names of hurricanes become the same kind of marker as wars in our history books – the Hundred Year Hurricane, perhaps? Are there places we remember, already lost, and do we mourn? We have conferred legal rights on our own non-living creations – corporations – why not on rivers or beaches or mountain ranges?”
Table of Contents:
- Editorial Notes
Ecocide
Leniqueca Welcome
Amanda Choo Quan
Annie Paul
- Fiction
All That Would Be
Lise Ragbir
Crocodile TearsRoland Watson Grant
When We Die
Sara Bastian
Daylight Come
Diana McCaulay
- Non-Fiction
Bullshit, Sweet-talk, and Hindu Nationalism
Kris Singh
El Dorado, City of Black Gold
Aliyah Khan
Jewellery for Re-membering in the Afterlife of Slavery: A View From the Disappearing Beach
Maziki Thame
- Poetry
Teach yi How ta Swim
Tanicia Pratt
Buchibushi and The Whole World is Turning
Adam Patterson
Huracanna
Amanda T. McIntyre
La Tormenta and 20 de Septiembre
Jacqueline Jiang
Reclamation by Water and Resurrection Morning
Ide Amari Thompson
Shinkolobwe, Belgian Congo
Lauren Delapenha
Wild Thing
Elizabeth Jaikaran
Morvant Landing and Swam Beauty
Kwasi Shade
Amnesia
Essah Cozett
- Art-icles
Beach as Plot?
Annalee Davis
- Re-visit
On Hidden Scars and the Passive Voice
Nahir I. Otaño Gracia
When the Apocalypse is Now: Climate Crisis, Small Island Disasters and Migration in the Aftermath of Hurricane Dorian
Angelique V. Nixon
- Brawta
Shells and shores: Wendy Nanan and Andre Bagoo
Circa no future: Nadia Huggins
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SX Salon – Issue 34, June 2020
“Since taking over as editor of sx salon a year ago, I have been hoping to write an issue introduction that was not punctuated by expressions of elegy and lament, for the death of one of our luminaries or for our broader collective circumstance in a pandemic. Sadly, this issue demands the same note of distress, in that the global public-health crisis of COVID-19 continues and clear evidence now exists, within the United States (at least), that—because of systemic racism and ubiquitous economic and medical inequities—Black, brown, and immigrant communities are disproportionately affected by the virus and its economic consequences.
But this moment is a little different, since I write also in the context of a massive and (so far) sustained uprising in defense of Black lives and freedom and against racist policing and structural injustice. We find ourselves in times of anxiety and hope, of terror and possibility. As always, our intention at sx salon is to present work that nourishes the mind and the soul, speaking of what is, with our eyes always firmly fixed on what can be. sx salon 34 therefore brings you a discussion of Rita Indiana’s cli-fi novel Tentacle, in a special section edited and introduced by Njelle W. Hamilton; a special book reviews section, edited and introduced by our reviews editor Ronald Cummings, marking the fortieth anniversary of Walter Rodney’s death; and a wonderful selection of new Caribbean creative writing by Margarita Rosa, Mauricio Almonte, and Vanessa Jimenez Gabb, curated as always by creative editor Rosamond S. King. Take heart, stay safe, and imagine the world we might bring into being.”
Table of Contents:
- Reviews
“Remembering Rodney”—Ronald Cummings
Introduction
“Grounding Rodney in Guyana”—Nalini Mohabir and Robert Cuffy
Review of Walter Rodney, The Groundings with My Brothers, ed. Asha Rodney and Jesse Benjamin, rev. ed. (London: Verso, 2019)
“The Global Social Divide: Revisiting How Europe Underdeveloped Africa”—Wazir Mohamed
Review of Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, rev. ed. (London: Verso, 2018)
“Critical Praxis: Walter Rodney and the Russian Revolution”—Nigel Westmaas
Review of Walter Rodney, The Russian Revolution: A View from The Third World, ed. Robin D. G. Kelley and Jesse Benjamin (London: Verso, 2018)
- Discussion—Rita Indiana’s Tentacle
“Rita Indiana’s Tentacle: An Introduction”—Njelle W. Hamilton
“Into the Anemone: Ocean, Form, and the Anthropocene in Tentacle”—Alison Glassie
“Rita Indiana’s Queer Interspecies Caribbean and the Hispanic Literary Tradition”—Charlotte Rogers
“‘Another Shape to Time’: Tentacle’s Spiral Now”—Njelle W. Hamilton
- Poetry and Prose