Caribbean Writers and the Jewish Diaspora: A Shared Experience of Otherness

in Davis, Geoffrey; Delrez, Marc; Ledent, Bénédicte (Eds.) The Invention of Legacy: Volume in Honour of Hena Maes-Jelinek (in press)

The Cross-Dressed Caribbean: Writing, Politics, Sexualities

Book published by University of Virginia Press (2013)

Studies of sexuality in Caribbean culture are on the rise, focusing mainly on homosexuality and homophobia or on regional manifestations of normative and nonnormative sexualities. The Cross-Dressed ... [more ▼]

Studies of sexuality in Caribbean culture are on the rise, focusing mainly on homosexuality and homophobia or on regional manifestations of normative and nonnormative sexualities. The Cross-Dressed Caribbean extends this exploration by using the trope of transvestism not only to analyze texts and contexts from anglophone, francophone, Spanish, Dutch, and diasporic Caribbean literature and film, but also to highlight reinventions of sexuality and resistance to different forms of exploitation and oppression. [less ▲]

"De l'autre côté de la littérature": Dislocations génériques et autres dans Hotel Impala de Baloji

in Birat, Kathie; Scheel, Charles; Zaugg, Brigitte (Eds.) Dislocation culturelle et construction identitaire (2012)

Introduction

in Ledent, Bénédicte; Cuder-Domínguez, Pilar (Eds.) New Perspectives on the Black Atlantic: Definitions, Readings, Practices, Dialogues (2012)

New Perspectives on the Black Atlantic: Definitions, Readings, Practices, Dialogues

Book published by Peter Lang (2012)

Engaging with Literature of Commitment (vol. 2): The Worldly Scholar

Book published by Rodopi (2012)

A Memory Trip: Partly in Tandem, Partly Quadrilogical

in Collier, Gordon; Delrez, Marc; Fuchs, Anne (Eds.) et al Engaging with Literature of Commitment (vols. 1 & 2) (2012)

Caryl Phillips: Writing in the Key of Life

Book published by Rodopi (2012)

Writing in the Key of Life is the first critical collection devoted to the British-Caribbean author Caryl Phillips, a major voice in contemporary anglophone literatures. Phillips’s impressive body of ... [more ▼]

Writing in the Key of Life is the first critical collection devoted to the British-Caribbean author Caryl Phillips, a major voice in contemporary anglophone literatures. Phillips’s impressive body of fiction, drama, and non-fiction has garnered wide praise for its formal inventiveness and its incisive social criticism as well as its unusually sensitive understanding of the human condition. The twenty-six contributions offered here, including two by Phillips himself, address the fundamental issues that have preoccupied the writer in his now three-decades-long career – the enduring legacy of history, the intricate workings of identity, and the pervasive role of race, class, and gender in societies worldwide. Most of Phillips’s writing is covered here, in essays that approach it from various thematic and interpretative angles. These include the interplay of fact and fiction, Phillips’s sometimes ambiguous literary affiliations, his long-standing interest in the black and Jewish diasporas, his exploration of Britain and its ‘Others’, and his recurrent use of motifs such as masking and concealment. Writing in the Key of Life testifies to the vitality of Phillipsian scholarship and confirms the significance of an artist whose concerns, at once universal and topical, find particular resonance with the state of the world at the beginning of the twenty-first century. [less ▲]

Review of Leah Reade Rosenberg's Nationalism and the Formation of Caribbean Literature (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2007)

in Nieuwe West-Indische Gids = New West Indian Guide (2011), 85(1-2), 154-156

Caraïbes / Royaume-Uni : Caryl Phillips

Article for general public (2010)