Caribbean & African Literature
A Waltz
A Waltz
Lynda Chouiten. Translated by Skyler Artes. Afterword by Mildred Mortimer
Désirée Congo
Désirée Congo
Évelyne Trouillot, translated by M. A. Salvodon, with an afterword by Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel
The Last of the African Kings
The Last of the African Kings
Maryse Condé, translated by Richard Philcox
Popa Singer
Popa Singer
René Depestre. Translated by Kaiama L. Glover
Difficult Reading
Difficult Reading
Frustration and Form in Anglophone Caribbean Fiction
Jason R. Marley
Break and Flow
Break and Flow
Hip Hop Poetics in the Americas
Charlie D. Hankin
Looking for Other Worlds
Looking for Other Worlds
Black Feminism and Haitian Fiction
Régine Michelle Jean-Charles
Crusoe’s Footprint
Crusoe’s Footprint
Patrick Chamoiseau. Translated by Jeffrey Landon Allen and Charly Verstraet
I Am Alive
I Am Alive
Kettly Mars. Translated by Nathan H. Dize
The Epic of Cuba Libre
The Epic of Cuba Libre
The Mambí, Mythopoetics, and Liberation
Éric Morales-Franceschini
The Sun of Jesús del Monte
The Sun of Jesús del Monte
A Cuban Antislavery Novel
Andrés Avelino de Orihuela. Translated and edited by David Luis-Brown
The Price of Slavery
The Price of Slavery
Capitalism and Revolution in the Caribbean
Nick Nesbitt
Rum Histories
Rum Histories
Drinking in Atlantic Literature and Culture
Jennifer Poulos Nesbitt
The Mambi-Land, or Adventures of a Herald Correspondent in Cuba
The Mambi-Land, or Adventures of a Herald Correspondent in Cuba
A Critical Edition
James J. O'Kelly. Edited by Jennifer Brittan
Haitian Revolutionary Fictions
Haitian Revolutionary Fictions
An Anthology
Edited and with translations by Marlene L. Daut, Grégory Pierrot, and Marion C. Rohrleitner
Fictions of Whiteness
Fictions of Whiteness
Imagining the Planter Caste in the French Caribbean Novel
Maeve McCusker
Imperial Educación
Imperial Educación
Race and Republican Motherhood in the Nineteenth-Century Americas
Thomas Genova
The Quebec Connection
The Quebec Connection
A Poetics of Solidarity in Global Francophone Literatures
Julie-Françoise Tolliver
Humus
Humus
Fabienne Kanor. Translated by Lynn E. Palermo
Comrade Sister
Comrade Sister
Caribbean Feminist Revisions of the Grenada Revolution
Laurie R. Lambert
The Belle Créole
The Belle Créole
Maryse Condé. Translated by Nicole Simek. Afterword by Dawn Fulton
Water Graves
Water Graves
The Art of the Unritual in the Greater Caribbean
Valérie Loichot
The Sacred Act of Reading
The Sacred Act of Reading
Spirituality, Performance, and Power in Afro-Diasporic Literature
Anne Margaret Castro
Caribbean Jewish Crossings
Caribbean Jewish Crossings
Literary History and Creative Practice
Edited by Sarah Phillips Casteel and Heidi Kaufman
Mapping Hispaniola
Mapping Hispaniola
Third Space in Dominican and Haitian Literature
Megan Jeanette Myers
Edwidge Danticat
Edwidge Danticat
The Haitian Diasporic Imaginary
Nadège T. Clitandre
Dézafi
Dézafi
Frankétienne. Translated by Asselin Charles. Afterword by Jean Jonassaint
Idle Talk, Deadly Talk
Idle Talk, Deadly Talk
The Uses of Gossip in Caribbean Literature
Ana Rodríguez Navas
Do You Hear in the Mountains... and Other Stories
Do You Hear in the Mountains... and Other Stories
Maïssa Bey. Translated by Erin Lamm. Afterword by Alison Rice
I Die by This Country
I Die by This Country
Fawzia Zouari. Translated by Skyler Artes
Crossing the Line
Crossing the Line
Early Creole Novels and Anglophone Caribbean Culture in the Age of Emancipation
Candace Ward
Staging Creolization
Staging Creolization
Women's Theater and Performance from the French Caribbean
Emily Sahakian
A Cultural History of Underdevelopment
A Cultural History of Underdevelopment
Latin America in the U.S. Imagination
John Patrick Leary
American Imperialism's Undead
American Imperialism's Undead
The Occupation of Haiti and the Rise of Caribbean Anticolonialism
Raphael Dalleo
In Search of Annie Drew
In Search of Annie Drew
Jamaica Kincaid's Mother and Muse
Daryl Cumber Dance
The Specter of Races
The Specter of Races
Latin American Anthropology and Literature between the Wars
Anke Birkenmaier
Performance and Personhood in Caribbean Literature
Performance and Personhood in Caribbean Literature
From Alexis to the Digital Age
Jeannine Murray-Román
The Leopard Boy
The Leopard Boy
Daniel Picouly. Translated by Jeanne Garane. Afterword by Jeanne M. Garane
Memory at Bay
Memory at Bay
Evelyne Trouillot. Translated by Paul Curtis Daw. Afterword by Jason Herbeck
Tropical Apocalypse
Tropical Apocalypse
Haiti and the Caribbean End Times
Martin Munro
Arabic as a Secret Song
Arabic as a Secret Song
Leïla Sebbar. Translated by Skyler Artes. Afterword by Mildred Mortimer
Market Aesthetics
Market Aesthetics
The Purchase of the Past in Caribbean Diasporic Fiction
Elena Machado Sáez
Eric Williams and the Anticolonial Tradition
Eric Williams and the Anticolonial Tradition
The Making of a Diasporan Intellectual
Maurice St. Pierre
The Pan American Imagination
The Pan American Imagination
Contested Visions of the Hemisphere in Twentieth-Century Literature
Stephen M. Park
Journeys of the Slave Narrative in the Early Americas
Journeys of the Slave Narrative in the Early Americas
Edited by Nicole N. Aljoe and Ian Finseth
The Other Side of the Sea
The Other Side of the Sea
Louis-Philippe Dalembert. Translated by Robert H. McCormick Jr. Foreword by Edwidge Danticat
Locating the Destitute
Locating the Destitute
Space and Identity in Caribbean Fiction
Stanka Radovic
The Fury and Cries of Women
The Fury and Cries of Women
Angèle Rawiri. Translated by Sara Hanaburgh. Afterword by Cheryl Toman
Bodies and Bones
Bodies and Bones
Feminist Rehearsal and Imagining Caribbean Belonging
Tanya L. Shields
Far from My Father
Far from My Father
Véronique Tadjo. Translated by Amy Baram Reid. Afterword by Amy Baram Reid
Sounding the Break
Sounding the Break
African American and Caribbean Routes of World Literature
Jason Frydman
The Haitian Revolution in the Literary Imagination
The Haitian Revolution in the Literary Imagination
Radical Horizons, Conservative Constraints
Philip James Kaisary
The Cross-Dressed Caribbean
The Cross-Dressed Caribbean
Writing, Politics, Sexualities
Edited by Maria Cristina Fumagalli, Bénédicte Ledent, and Roberto del Valle Alcalá
The Poetics of Ethnography in Martinican Narratives
The Poetics of Ethnography in Martinican Narratives
Exploring the Self and the Environment
Christina Kullberg
Disturbers of the Peace
Disturbers of the Peace
Representations of Madness in Anglophone Caribbean Literature
Kelly Baker Josephs
Race, Romance, and Rebellion
Race, Romance, and Rebellion
Literatures of the Americas in the Nineteenth Century
Colleen C. O'Brien
Pathologies of Paradise
Pathologies of Paradise
Caribbean Detours
Supriya M. Nair
Climb to the Sky
Climb to the Sky
Suzanne Dracius. Translated by Jamie Davis. Afterword by Edwin C. Hill Jr.
Family Matters
Family Matters
Puerto Rican Women Authors on the Island and the Mainland
Marisel C. Moreno
Vulnerable States
Vulnerable States
Bodies of Memory in Contemporary Caribbean Fiction
Guillermina De Ferrari
Land and Blood
Land and Blood
Mouloud Feraoun. Translated by Patricia Geesey. afterword by Patricia Geesey
Consuming Visions
Consuming Visions
Cinema, Writing, and Modernity in Rio de Janeiro
Maite Conde
Disaster Writing
Disaster Writing
The Cultural Politics of Catastrophe in Latin America
Mark D. Anderson
Caribbean Literature and the Public Sphere
Caribbean Literature and the Public Sphere
From the Plantation to the Postcolonial
Raphael Dalleo
At the Café and The Talisman
At the Café and The Talisman
Mohammed Dib. Translated by C. Dickson. afterword by Mildred P. Mortimer
Sex and the Citizen
Sex and the Citizen
Interrogating the Caribbean
edited by Faith Smith
The Purloined Islands
The Purloined Islands
Caribbean-U.S. Crosscurrents in Literature and Culture, 1880–1959
Jeff Karem
Edwidge Danticat
Edwidge Danticat
A Reader's Guide
Edited by Martin Munro. Foreword by Dany Laferrière
Cuba and the Fall
Cuba and the Fall
Christian Text and Queer Narrative in the Fiction of José Lezama Lima and Reinaldo Arenas
Eduardo González
Elusive Origins
Elusive Origins
The Enlightenment in the Modern Caribbean Historical Imagination
Paul B. Miller
Aunt Résia and the Spirits and Other Stories
Aunt Résia and the Spirits and Other Stories
Yanick Lahens. Translated by Betty Wilson. Foreword by Edwidge Danticat. Introduction by Marie-Agnès Sourieau
Caribbean Perspectives on Modernity
Caribbean Perspectives on Modernity
Returning Medusa's Gaze
Maria Cristina Fumagalli
Exhibiting Slavery
Exhibiting Slavery
The Caribbean Postmodern Novel as Museum
Vivian Nun Halloran
Transatlantic Solidarities
Transatlantic Solidarities
Irish Nationalism and Caribbean Poetics
Michael G. Malouf
I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem
I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem
Maryse Condé
Universal Emancipation
Universal Emancipation
The Haitian Revolution and the Radical Enlightenment
Nick Nesbitt
Soon Come
Soon Come
Jamaican Spirituality, Jamaican Poetics
Hugh Hodges
Signs of Dissent
Signs of Dissent
Maryse Condé and Postcolonial Criticism
Dawn Fulton
Tree of Liberty
Tree of Liberty
Cultural Legacies of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World
Doris L. Garraway, ed.
The Abandoned Baobab
The Abandoned Baobab
The Autobiography of a Senegalese Woman
Ken Bugul. Translated by Marjolijn de Jager. With an introduction by Jeanne Garane
Second Arrivals
Second Arrivals
Landscape and Belonging in Contemporary Writing of the Americas
Sarah Phillips Casteel
Orphan Narratives
Orphan Narratives
The Postplantation Literature of Faulkner, Glissant, Morrison, and Saint-John Perse
Valérie Loichot
Just Below South
Just Below South
Intercultural Performance in the Caribbean and the U.S. South
Jessica Adams, Michael P. Bibler, and Cécile Accilien, eds.
Writing Rumba
Writing Rumba
The Afrocubanista Movement in Poetry
Miguel Arnedo-Gómez
Dog Days
Dog Days
An Animal Chronicle
Patrice Nganang. Translated by Amy Reid
Guarding Cultural Memory
Guarding Cultural Memory
Afro-Cuban Women in Literature and the Arts
Flora González Mandri
Cannibal Modernities
Cannibal Modernities
Postcoloniality and the Avant-garde in Caribbean and Brazilian Literature
Luís Madureira
Reclaiming Difference
Reclaiming Difference
Caribbean Women Rewrite Postcolonialism
Carine M. Mardorossian
New World Modernisms
New World Modernisms
T.S. Eliot, Derek Walcott, and Kamau Brathwaite
Charles W. Pollard
New World Modernisms
New World Modernisms
T.S. Eliot, Derek Walcott, and Kamau Brathwaite
Charles W. Pollard
Exile: According to Julia
Exile: According to Julia
by Gisèle Pineau. Translated by Betty Wilson with an Afterword by Marie-Agnès Sourieau
Voicing Memory
Voicing Memory
History and Subjectivity in French Caribbean Literature
Nick Nesbitt
Paradise and Plantation
Paradise and Plantation
Tourism and Culture in the Anglophone Caribbean
Ian Gregory Strachan
Creole Recitations
Creole Recitations
John Jacob Thomas and Colonial Formation in the Late Nineteenth-Century Caribbean
Faith Smith
Singular Performances
Singular Performances
Reinscribing the Subject in Francophone African Writing
Michael Syrotinski
In the Flicker of an Eyelid
In the Flicker of an Eyelid
A Novel
Jacques Stephen Alexis. Translated and with an afterword by Carrol F. Coates and Edwidge Danticat, with the 1983 preface by Florence Alexis
The Story of the Madman
The Story of the Madman
Mongo Beti
Waiting for the Vote of the Wild Animals
Waiting for the Vote of the Wild Animals
Ahmadou Kourouma. Translated by Carrol F. Coates. Afterword by Carrol F. Coates
Talk Yuh Talk
Talk Yuh Talk
Interviews with Anglophone Caribbean Poets
Kwame Dawes
Juanita
Juanita
A Romance of Real Life in Cuba Fifty Years Ago,
Mary Peabody Mann. Edited and with an Introduction by Patricia M. Ard
It Shall Be of Jasper and Coral and Love-across-a-Hundred-Lives
It Shall Be of Jasper and Coral and Love-across-a-Hundred-Lives
Werewere Liking. Translated by Marjolijn de Jager
Of Dreams and Assassins
Of Dreams and Assassins
Malika Mokeddem. Translated by K. Melissa Marcus
General Sun, My Brother
General Sun, My Brother
Jacques Stephen Alexis. Translated and with an introduction by Carrol F. Coates
Women of Algiers in Their Apartment
Women of Algiers in Their Apartment
Assia Djebar. Translated by Marjolijn de Jager and Clarisse Zimra
Edouard Glissant and Postcolonial Theory
Edouard Glissant and Postcolonial Theory
Strategies of Language and Resistance
Celia Britton
Autobiography and National Identity in the Americas
Autobiography and National Identity in the Americas
Steven V. Hunsaker
Caribbean Romances
Caribbean Romances
The Politics of Regional Representation
Belinda Edmondson, ed.
Cultural Haunting
Cultural Haunting
Ghosts and Ethnicity in Recent American Literature
Kathleen Brogan
The Collected Poetry
The Collected Poetry
Leopold Sedar Senghor. Translated by Melvin Dixon
The Other America
The Other America
Caribbean Literature in a New World Context
J. Michael Dash
Reflections of Loko Miwa
Reflections of Loko Miwa
Lilas Desquiron. Translated by Robin O. Bodkin
Monsters,Tricksters, and Sacred Cows
Monsters,Tricksters, and Sacred Cows
Animal Tales and American Identities
A. James Arnold. Afterword by Derek Walcott
French and West Indian
French and West Indian
Martinique, Guadeloupe, and French Guiana Today
Richard D. E. Burton and Fred Reno, eds. Foreword by A. James Arnold
Leonora
Leonora
The Buried Story of Guadeloupe
Dany Bebel-gisler. Translated by Andrea Leskes Afterword by Vera M Kutzinski and Cynthia Mesh
Sugar's Secrets
Sugar's Secrets
Race and the Erotics of Cuban Nationalism
Vera M. Kutzinski
Caribbean Discourse
Selected Essays
Edouard Glissant. Translated and with an introduction by J Michael Dash
Caribbean Discourse
Selected Essays
Edouard Glissant. Translated and with an introduction by J Michael Dash
Nedjma
Nedjma
Kateb Yacine
The Festival of the Greasy Pole
The Festival of the Greasy Pole
René Depestre
Lyric and Dramatic Poetry, 1946-82
Lyric and Dramatic Poetry, 1946-82
Aime Cesaire. Translated by Clayton Eshleman and Annette Smith, Introduction by A. James Arnold
Lone Sun
Lone Sun
Daniel Maximin
Tropical Circle
Tropical Circle
Alioum Fantour. Translated by Dorothy S. Blair. Introduction by Aliko Songolo
The Madman and the Medusa
The Madman and the Medusa
Tchicaya U Tam'Si. Translated by Sonja Haussmann Smith and William Jay Smith. Introduction by Eric Sellin
The Bastards
The Bastards
Bertne Juminer. Translated by Keith Q. Warner
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