Teaching Anglophone Caribbean literature

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Caribbean Groundings and Limbo Gateways / Supriya M. Nair

Part I. Movements and Migrations

The Other Postcolonial Wars: Amerindians versus Coastlanders in The Ventriloquist's Tale / Albert Braz

The Slave Narrative in the Anglophone Caribbean / Nicole N. Aljoe

Locating India in the Caribbean: Indo-Caribbean Literature, Gender, and Subjectivity / Brinda Mehta

Behind the Counter: Teaching Chinese Jamaican Texts in the Caribbean Literature Course / Timothy Chin

Anglophone Caribbean Immigrants in the Harlem Renaissance / Louis J. Parascandola

Black Britain and Its Antecedents / John C. Hawley

Literary and Linguistic Crossings: The Shifting Boundaries of Anglophone Caribbean Literature / April Shemak

Part II. Ritual, Performance, and Popular Culture

"Disguise Up de English Language": Turning Linguistic Tricks in Creole-Anglophone Caribbean Literature / Carolyn Cooper

"Play Mas Bachannal": Toward a Pedagogy of J'ouvert and Identity Politics / Paula Morgan

Using Film to Enhance Cultural Understanding: Images of Jamaica in How Stella Got Her Groove Back and The Harder They Come / Giselle Liza Anatol

From Obeah to Syncretism: Teaching Gothic Literature and Early Caribbean Spiritual Culture / Joshua Albert Brewer

The Politics of Collective Creation: Teaching Sistren's Bellywoman Bangarang and Ida Revolt inna Jonkonnu Stylee / Karina Smith

Part III. Interpretive Approaches

Reading the Nineteenth-Century / Faith Smith

Beyond the Pale, Beyond the Dark: Representing Caribbean Racial Realities at a US University / Rhonda Frederick

Materializing the Anglophone Caribbean Text: Rum, a Case Study / Jennifer P Nesbitt

Unspeakable Thoughts, Unspoken Loss in Shani Mootoo's Cereus Blooms at Night: Trauma, Gender, and Sexuality / Grant Farred

On Daffodils and Castaways: Intertextual Approaches to Teaching Anglophone Caribbean Literature / Shane Graham

Reading about Reading in the Anglophone Caribbean Novel / Alisa K. Braithwaite

Anglophone Caribbean Literature in Context: A Comparative Perspective / Vivian Nun Halloran

Part IV. Course Contexts

Teaching Anglophone Caribbean Literature: Creolization, Carnival, Crossings / Elaine Savory

Autobiographical Occasions: A Graduate Seminar in Caribbean Autobiography / Sandra Pouchet Paquet

Teaching Mary Seacole in a First-Year Writing Seminar / Elizabeth Way

"Prediction and Memory": Two Texts in Conversation: Homer's Odyssey and Derek Walcott's Omeros / Mimi Pipino

Gender, the Pastoral, and the Postcolonial Caribbean / Denise deCaires Narain

Part V. Teaching Resources

A Selective Guide to Anglophone Caribbean Literature / Supriya M. Nair

Notes on Contributors

Index