The concept of imaginary homeland in the works of Indo-Caribbean writers by Mani, Manimangai

“…This paper intends to highlight the use of imaginary homeland in the settings in the works of selected Indo-Caribbean writers who originate from the islands of Trinidad and Tobago. …”
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Autour de Batouala de René Maran : réflexions sur quelques formulations racistes et antiracistes du mot « nègre » by Elsa Geneste

“…As it was used both to attack and to defend him, the French Caribbean writer was often the victim of misplaced identity attributions. …”
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ROOTING IDENTITIES: DEREK WALCOTT’S CONNECTION(S) WITH THE CARIBBEAN ENVIRONMENT by Mattia Mantellato

“…This article aims to demonstrate how the notions of ‘identity representation’ and ‘ecological narrative’ complement each other in defining both the characters and stories that Caribbean writer Derek Walcott sketches in his well-known epic Omeros. …”
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The Autobiography of My Mother: Narrative as an Access to Post/Colonial Trauma by Hülya YILDIZ

“…This study discusses the Caribbean writer Jamaica Kincaid's novel The Autobiography of My Mother (1996) from the perspective of trauma theory. …”
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Elusive mother country: The literature of the Indian-Caribbean Windrush by Maria del Pilar Kaladeen

“…My aim in this article is to offer a preliminary analysis of the literary odyssey of Indian-Caribbean writers during this period…”
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L’archi-écriture d’une bi-langue chamoisienne by Wafa Triki

“…In a bilingual context, Caribbean writers often resort to a distinctive style to revive the imaginary of the creole. …”
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Caribbean travel and the "realistic shock": Lamming, Naipaul, Condé by Ghosh, W

“…The claim that African cultural forms survived in Caribbean societies was interrogated when Caribbean writers traveled to West Africa. A common trope, “realistic shock,” is found in many travelogues and memoirs that describe this journey. …”

TIME AND TRANSLATIONAL IDENTITIES IN WILSON HARRIS’S THE TREE OF THE SUN by Timothy Weiss

“…In broad terms, these de facto and imagined crossings of barriers express Caribbean writers’ desire to go beyond the impasse of the present: to redefine identity, reinterpret history, and put forth a new vision of human relationships. …”
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Subjection and Resistance: Landscapes, Gardens, Myths and Vestigial Presences in Olive Senior's Gardening in the Tropics by Hannah Regis

“…This paper argues that a selection of Caribbean writers has engaged an aesthetic that spotlights the idea of a living or divine landscape through a deployment of folkloric, mythological, magical or spiritual epistemological frames. …”
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CALYPSO MAGNOLIA: TRANSIENCE AND DURABILITY IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH by John Lowe

“…Haiti, as a nexus for revolution, racial turmoil, and colonial and postcolonial struggle, has always been a lodestar for Southern and circumCaribbean writers. This paper briefly considers links between the U.S. …”
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Subjection and Resistance: Landscapes, Gardens, Myths and Vestigial Presences in Olive Senior's Gardening in the Tropics by Hannah Regis

“…This paper argues that a selection of Caribbean writers has engaged an aesthetic that spotlights the idea of a living or divine landscape through a deployment of folkloric, mythological, magical or spiritual epistemological frames. …”
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Dub Writing in Marcia Douglas’ The Marvellous Equations of the Dread: A Novel in Bass Riddim by Treviene A. Harris

“…Particularly in relation to history and origin, or the history of our origins, Caribbean writers have experimented with literary form to articulate the region’s own peculiar understanding of its place within a time/space continuum as outside of conventional structures of knowledge. …”
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Dub Writing in Marcia Douglas’ The Marvellous Equations of the Dread: A Novel in Bass Riddim by Treviene A. Harris

“…Particularly in relation to history and origin, or the history of our origins, Caribbean writers have experimented with literary form to articulate the region’s own peculiar understanding of its place within a time/space continuum as outside of conventional structures of knowledge. …”
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Guyanese comfa: arts of imagination by Asantewa, Michelle

“…Secondly, I explore four texts by Caribbean writers to highlight the social, cultural and historical significance of spirit possession/spiritual practices and the way Caribbean spiritual traditions can be used as literary aesthetic. …”
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Women staging the French Caribbean: history, memory, and authorship in the plays of Ina Césaire, Maryse Condé, Gerty Dambury, and Suzanne Dracius by Lee, V

“…</p> <p>The first chapter serves as an introduction to a group of female French Caribbean writers and their predecessors. The second chapter is a study of two historical plays, focussing on the collective experience of historical events and the role played by women in those events. …”

V.S. Naipaul, Caribbean writing, and Caribbean thought in the postcolonial era 1960-1995 by Ghosh, W

“…Further, I show how in this period Caribbean writers tried to articulate the specificity of Caribbean colonial experience in contrast to the colonial experiences of other parts of the world (especially Africa). …”

Estranged Intimacies: An Anticolonial Poetics of Silence in the Poetry of Raquel Salas Rivera and Ana-Maurine Lara by Marena Fleites Lear

“…   ABSTRACT: This article analyzes two recent poetry collections by queer Caribbean writers and probes them for what they can reveal about silence as a combined affective, aesthetic and political strategy. …”
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