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Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1920-1970

Edited by Raphael Dalleo and Curdella Forbes

The years between the 1920s and 1970s are key for the development of Caribbean literature, producing the founding canonical literary texts of the Anglophone Caribbean. This volume features essays by major scholars as well as emerging voices revisiting important moments from that era to open up new perspectives. Caribbean contributions to the Harlem Renaissance, to the Windrush generation publishing in England after World War II, and to the regional reverberations of the Cuban Revolution all feature prominently in this story. At the same time, we uncover lesser known stories of writers publishing in regional newspapers and journals, of pioneering women writers, and of exchanges with Canada and the African continent. From major writers like Derek Walcott, V.S. Naipaul, George Lamming, and Jean Rhys to recently recuperated figures like Eric Walrond, Una Marson, Sylvia Wynter, and Ismith Khan, this volume sets a course for the future study of Caribbean literature.

Purchase the book here.

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New York 1920

I have a contribution to the digital humanities project “New York 1920, 100 Years Ago Today: When We Became Modern.” My post is about the 100th anniversary of James Weldon Johnson’s “Self-Determining Haiti,” drawn from my research for American Imperialism’s Undead.

Read the full post here: https://www.ny1920.com/aug-28

The Crisis , September 1920, p. 223. Modernist Journals Project.
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(2/8/19) Keynote address @ Caribbean Meridians

http://www.formsofworldliterature.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Pascaerte-vande-Caribische-Eylanden-Cyanotype-web-crop.jpgProfessor Dalleo delivered the keynote address “Haiti, Harlem, and Hamburg: Anticolonialism’s Rhizomatic Roots” at the Caribbean Meridians conference at the University of Western Sydney. The address used research from American Imperialism’s Undead to reflect on the meridians of anticolonialism intersecting around the U.S. occupation of Haiti.

The keynote address can be heard here:

http://www.formsofworldliterature.com/caribbean-meridians/

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(1/4/19) Roundtable on Critical University Studies and Postcoloniality @ MLA

Professor Dalleo was invited to participate in a roundtable about Critical University Studies organized by Anne Gulick (University of South Carolina) and Sam Pinto (Georgetown University) at the 2019 MLA in Chicago.

Connecting #feesmustfall to the struggle to remove monuments to racist pasts on campus, this session addressed the contemporary global university as it has been constructed through both political protest and literary form in the postcolonial world. Participants asked how the university has figured in the study of world literature and how it has been imagined in the postcolonial context, as an institution both beholden to and offering promise beyond the colonial infrastructure.

Other participants included Agata Szczeszak-Brewer (Wabash College), Coilin Parsons (Georgetown University), Matthew H. Brown (University of Wisconsin, Madison) and Neville W. Hoad (U of Texas, Austin).

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(11/9/18) Roundtable on US Occupations @ ASA

Professor Dalleo took part in a roundtable discussion of U.S. military occupations in the Caribbean and their aftermaths at the American Studies Association conference in Atlanta. This presidential session organized by Mary Renda (Mount Holyoke College) allowed scholars of Caribbean studies to initiate a robust conversation about the political and cultural reverberations of US military interventions in the Caribbean.

Participants included Harvey Nepute (author of Caliban and the Yankees: Trinidad and the United States Occupation), Grace Sanders Johnson (University of Pennsylvania), and Lara Putnam (co-editor of Caribbean Military Encounters). Professor Dalleo discussed research from his book American Imperialism’s Undead