... and return to Barbados, up to his death in 2020. It especially follows Kamau from his low “time of salt” of the late 1980s in Jamaica through the stunning critical and poetic burgeoning from the 1990s on, with such works as Barabajan Poems ; the two-volume MR ; the prize-winning Born to Slow Horses...

... © 2011 by Small Axe, Inc. 2011 Contributors Lauren K. Alleyne is a native of Trinidad and Tobago. Her work has earned the 2003 Atlantic Monthly Student Poetry Prize, the Robert Chasen Graduate Poetry Prize (Cornell University), the International Publication Prize (Atlanta Review...

... was telling us exactly what they told him to tell us? One evening in 1987 I found myself in the audience at the awards ceremony for the Commonwealth Poetry Prize held at the Commonwealth Institute in London. Kamau’s book X/Self was a finalist for the prize, and I have no doubt that the overwhelming...

... anielle B oodoo -F ortuné is a poet and artist from Trinidad. Her writing has been featured in publications such as Bim , Anthurium , sx salon , Tongues of the Ocean , and Room Magazine . She was awarded the Charlotte and Isidor Paeiwonsky Prize for First Time Publication by the Caribbean Writer...

... University, he has recently retired from full-time teaching. A founder of the Caribbean Artists Movement and a founding editor of Savacou , he is the recipient of a number of awards and prizes, including the Neustadt International Prize for Literature. Among his most recent books are Ancestors (2001), MR...

... the History and Philosophy Department of the University of the West Indies–Barbados as a PhD external examiner. In 2015 he gave the Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Address in Geneva, New York, and judged the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature in Port of Spain, Trinidad. M ichelle S tephens...

... I ra M athur is an Indian-born multimedia journalist living in Trinidad and Tobago, where she works as a columnist for the Trinidad Guardian . She is the recipient of nine regional awards for excellence in journalism and was shortlisted for the Hollick Arvon Prize in 2013 and 2014. In 2018...

... practiced law for seven years before leaving to write full time. She has published four books of poetry, one novel, and three collections of essays. She was awarded a Pushcart Prize (USA) in 1981, the Casa de las Americas Prize (Cuba) and the Tradewinds Collective Prize in 1988, and was made...

... of Jamaica (2017–20) and was awarded the 2019 Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry. Other awards for her work include the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize for Poetry from Yale University, the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, the Musgrave Gold Medal from Jamaica, and the British Columbia National Award for Canadian Non...

... (2001), and (edited with Jean Rahier) Problematizing Blackness: Self Ethnographies by Black Immigrants to the United States (2003). ruel johnson was born in Guyana in 1980. In February of 2003, he received the Guyana Prize for Literature 2002, Best First Book of Fiction for his anthology of short...

... (2001), and (edited with Jean Rahier) Problematizing Blackness: Self Ethnographies by Black Immigrants to the United States (2003). ruel johnson was born in Guyana in 1980. In February of 2003, he received the Guyana Prize for Literature 2002, Best First Book of Fiction for his anthology of short...

..., the and Commonwealth most recently Poetry the British Prize (AmericasColumbia National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction for From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her Island (2007). Her books of poetry include Tamarind Season (1980), I Am Becoming My Mother (1986), Heartease (1988), Selected Poems (1992...

..., and subsequently at New York University. His publications include The Arrivants (1973); Born to Slow Horses (2006), which was awarded the 2006 International Griffin Poetry Prize; and The Lazarus Poems (2017). In 1994 he received the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, in 2015 he was awarded...

... at the University of the West Indies, Mona, he now teaches in the Department of Com- Ancestorsparativeaincluding founding Literature the (2001),editor Neustadt of MRat Savacou New (Magical International York, Brathwaite University.Realism) Prize (2002), is Afor thefounder Literature. recipientWords...

... exoticism that has tradition- ally shaped the perspective from which the cultural production of the Caribbean is dealt. Carlos Acero: Acero, an accomplished artist with a handful of awards, is himself a byprod- uct of migration: his parents are from Spain. This image won a prize...

...: Le chemin de la liberté (Haiti: The Road to Freedom; 1974, full-length film, 120 mm, black and white). This film, sponsored by the well-known journal Les cahiers du cinéma, launched 90 | SX27 • Cinema in Haiti won many prizes and were shown at numerous international festivals...

... créoles by Raphaël Confiant and Patrick Chamoiseau. A mere three years after the awarding of the Goncourt Prize to Chamoiseau for his novel Texaco and of the Nobel Prize for Literature to Derek Walcott, this book revealed to Japanese intellectuals the literary, philosophical, and political stakes...

... Prize for Global Cultural Understanding and finalist for the 2020 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize (Ameri- can Studies Association). Sarah Phillips Casteel is a professor of English at Carleton University, where she is cross- appointed to the Institute of African Studies. She is the author...

... book, Difficult Diasporas: The Transnational Feminist Aesthetic of the Black Atlantic (2013), was the winner of the 2013 William Sanders Scarborough Prize for African American literature and culture-from the MLA. She is currently at work on a second book project on the relationship between eighteenth...

... (2011); Bergson postcolonial: L'élan vital dans la pensée de Senghor et de Mohamed Iqbal (2011), which was awarded the Dagnan-Bouveret prize by the French Academy of Moral and Political Sciences for 2011; L'encre des savants: Réflexions sur la philosophie en Afrique (2013); and Comment philosopher...