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Caribbean & African Literature

Forces of Creolization

Glissant and a Decolonial Feminist Aperture

Ruthanne Soohee Kim

Forces of Creolization

Glissant and a Decolonial Feminist Aperture

Ruthanne Soohee Kim

The Burial and Other Short Prose, 1963-1994

The Burial and Other Short Prose, 1963-1994

Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine, translated by Conor Bracken

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

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