Caribbean Critical Theory
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Dalton, Christin, and Lisa on Henzell, Baugh, and The Wailers
05 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dalton, Christin, and Lisa discuss the final bit of material from the seminar, including Perry Henzell's The Harder They Come, Edward Baugh's "The We...
Edward Baugh, Perry Henzell, and The Wailers - Inventiveness, the Underclass, and the Sounds of the Everyday
29 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A discussion of Edward Baugh's essay "The West Indian Writer and His Quarrel with History," Perry Henzell's The Harder They Come, and The Wailer's m...
Kayna, Dalton, and Abby on Maryse Condé and the Creolists
29 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Kayna, Dalton, and Abby discuss the Creolist's response to Maryse Condé's critical remarks on the créolité movement, thinking through questions of ...
Maryse Condé and the Créolité Movement - Literature, Identity, Diaspora
29 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A discussion of Maryse Condé's essay "Order, Disorder, Freedom, and the West Indian Writer" and the critical interview "Créolité Bites" with Jean B...
Charlie, Lisa, and Teagan on Jean Bernabé, Patrick Chamoiseau, and Raphaël Confiant
23 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Charlie, Lisa, and Teagan discuss In Praise of Creoleness and its cultural politics of race, identity, and expression.
Jean Bernabé, Patrick Chamoiseau, and Raphaël Confiant - Creoleness, Identity, Literature
23 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Discussion of Jean Bernabé, Patrick Chamoiseau, and Raphaël Confiant's 1989 manifesto In Praise of Creoleness, with particular attention to questi...
Teagan, Lisa, and Kayna on Kamau Brathwaite
12 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Discussion of Kamau Brathwaite's poetics and poetic praxis with Teagan, Kayna, and Lisa.
Kamau Brathwaite - Orality, Aurality, and Postcolonial Intelligence
12 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A discussion of the relation between orality and aurality in Kamau Brathwaite's poetics and poetic praxis.
Mary Catherine, Twanna, and Christin on Wilson Harris
12 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A discussion of Wilson Harris' work with Mary Catherine Contreras, Twanna Hodge, and Christin Washington.
Wilson Harris - Creoleness, Identity, and the Imagination
09 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A discussion of two late essays by Wilson Harris on creoleness and the imagination, with particular emphasis on how they ask us to rethink and recalib...
Twanna, Abigail, and Charlie on Glissant and BenĂtez-Rojo
09 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Abigail, Twanna, and Charlie discuss the intersections between the work of Glissant and BenĂtez-Rojo.
Édouard Glissant and Antonio BenĂtez-Rojo - The Archipelago, Chaos, and an Ethics of the Aesthetic
09 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A discussion of Glissant's and BenĂtez-Rojo's conceptions of the archipelago, chaos, and the implications for an ethic of globalized aesthetics.
Twanna, Mary Catherine, and Dalton on Glissant and Walcott
09 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A discussion of Glissant's and Walcott's work, specifically the opening pages of Poetics of Relation and the poem "The Sea is History."
Derek Walcott and Édouard Glissant - History, the Sea, and Caribbean Identity
12 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Reflections on Derek Walcott's 1977 poem "The Sea is History" and the opening sections of Édouard Glissant's Poetics of Relation, with emphasis on ...
Kayna, Charlie, and Christin on V.S. Naipaul and Derek Walcott
08 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Kayna, Charlie, and Christin discuss V.S. Naipaul's Middle Passage and two essays by Derek Walcott, "The Muse of History" and "The Antilles: Fragmen...
V.S. Naipaul and Derek Walcott - History and Caribbeanness
05 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A discussion of V.S. Naipaul's The Middle Passage (1962) in relation to Derek Walcott's "The Muse of History" (1974) and "The Antilles" (1992), focu...
Twanna, Dalton, and Abby on Sylvia Wynter, Blackness, and Coloniality
04 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A discussion of two essays by Sylvia Wynter: "Toward the Socigenic Principle" and "Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom"
Sylvia Wynter - Sociogenesis, Consciousness, and the Human
27 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A discussion of Sylvia Wynter's work and its extension of Fanon's key insights, with particular emphasis on her essays "Toward the Sociogenic Principl...
Lisa, Abby, and Teagan on Frantz Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks
23 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lisa, Abby, and Teagan discuss the significance and meaning of Frantz Fanon's 1952 book Black Skin, White Masks.
Frantz Fanon - Antiblackness, Language, and World-Making
20 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A discussion of key themes in Frantz Fanon's 1952 text Black Skin, White Masks, with particular attention to the function of language, sociogeny, and...
Charlie, Mary Catherine, and Teagan on René Ménil's Surrealism and Caribbeanness
14 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A discussion of René Ménil's writings on surrealism and Caribbeanness, with particular focus on his essays from the early 1940s in the journal Trop...
René Ménil - Caribbeanness, Decolonization, and Poetry After the Heteronomic
13 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A discussion of René Ménil's essays from Tropiques and their vision of a poetics of Caribbean identity and life.
Kayna, Christin, and Mary Catherine on Suzanne CĂ©saire's Surrealism
11 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Reflections by Kayna Richards, Christin Washington, and Mary Catherine Contreras on Suzanne CĂ©saire's essay on Surrealism.
Suzanne CĂ©saire - Surrealism, Civilization, and the Making of a Poetics
06 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
An examination of Suzanne Césaire's essays for Tropiques on surrealism and Frobenius' notion of civilization, with particular attention to how thos...
Aimé Césaire - Surrealism, Civilization, and Poetry's Possibility
31 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A discussion of Aimé Césaire's 1945 essay "Poetry and Knowledge" and 1956 essay "Culture and Colonization," with particular focus on how the poetic ...