Warm congratulations to guest editor Leah Rosenberg on the publication of a special issue of the Journal of West Indian Literature (JWIL) on Caribbean Literature, Art, and Environmental Activism (Vol. 32, No. 1, November 2023). The cover art, designed by Annalee Davis, is entitled “Pray to Flowers – A Plot of Disalienation,” a site-specific apothecary installation grown collaboratively with Yoeri Guépin for “Sharjah Biennial 15: Thinking Historically in the Present,” 2023 (photo by Shanavas Jamaluddin). This special issue is dedicated to Jamaican poet, scholar, and educator Edward Baugh. Here is the dedication, the table of contents, and purchasing information.
“We dedicate this issue of JWIL to Edward Baugh, a man whose accomplishments as a poet, scholar, teacher, and administrator were essential to building and sustaining over decades the West Indian Literature Conference, this journal, the field of Caribbean literary studies, and the poets and scholars of today and of the future. Let us honor his extraordinary wisdom, erudition, eloquence, empathy, and service by continuing his work.”
Editorial Preface
Leah Rosenberg
Articles
Public Art and Military Afterlives in Culebra, Puerto Rico
Alejandra Bronfman
Audre Lorde’s and Sofía Gallisá Muriente’s Hurricane Diaries: Writing Strategies of Survival in Colonial Disaster
Jeannine Murray-Román
Postcards Remixed: Ekphrasis, Ecology, and the Everyday in Caribbean Postcard Poetry
Shalini Puri
Ship and Storm: Caribbean Hurricane Literature and Songs of Middle Passage Migrancy
Aliyah Khan
El/Oil Dorado: Art and Activism in Guyana
Sasha Ann Panaram
Pray to Flowers—A Plot of Disalienation
Annalee Davis
Folk Cultures and Animal Sentience in Olive Senior’s Selected Poetry
Hannah Regis
“We must look after each other”: Human and Non-Human Extinctions on Hispaniola in Edwidge Danticat’s Claire of the Sea Light and Rita Indiana’s Tentacle
Seanna Viechweg
“This is Jamaica”: Circumscribed Citizenship in Esther Figueroa’s I Live for Art (2013) and Fly Me to the Moon (2019)
Rachel Moseley-Wood
“The everyday is everything”: A Conversation with Esther Figueroa
Leah Rosenberg and Shalini Puri
Fly Me to the Moon: Imagining a Future beyond Extraction
Esther Figueroa, introduction by Leah Rosenberg
Book Reviews
Mary Ann Gosser Esquilín, Culture, Nature, and the Other in Caribbean Literature: An Ecocritical Approach
Leah Rosenberg
Dreaming the “Unthinkable”: Identities, Longing, and Self-Liberation in Andre Bagoo’s The Dreaming. Review of Andre Bagoo, The Dreaming.
Jacqueline Jiang
For more information, see https://www.jwilonline.org/current-issue/
[Cover art shown above: “Pray to Flowers – A Plot of Disalienation,” a site-specific apothecary installation grown collaboratively with Yoeri Guépin for “Sharjah Biennial 15: Thinking Historically in the Present”, 2023. Image courtesy of Sharjah Art Foundation. Photo: © Shanavas Jamaluddin.]
Warm congratulations to guest editor Leah Rosenberg on the publication of a special issue of the Journal of West Indian Literature (JWIL) on Caribbean Literature, Art, and Environmental Activism (Vol. 32, No. 1, November 2023). The cover art, designed by Annalee Davis, is entitled “Pray to Flowers – A Plot of Disalienation,” a site-specific apothecary installation
