Bookshelf (Jan/Feb 2019) | Book reviews
This month’s reading picks, with reviews of High Mas: Carnival and the Poetics of Caribbean Culture; Giant; Black Dogs and the Colour Yellow; A View of the Empire at Sunset; and Erotic Islands: Art and Activism in the Queer Caribbean
Slavery revisited
It takes a brave writer these days to approach the subject of slavery in the Caribbean. Look at the many novels published by contemporary...
Caribbean Bookshelf (January/February 2016)
The Merchant of Feathers, by Tanya Shirley (Peepal Tree Press, 64 pp, ISBN 9781845232337) A merchant of feathers sells soft things in hard...
Caryl Phillips: “the arts are the window through which we see ourselves”
I was born in St Kitts in 1958, at a time when Caribbean people were migrating to Britain in terrific numbers. My parents were very young,...
Caryl Phillips: Playing Away
“Yes, there are meant to be two-line breaks between the paragraphs here.” “OK, Ismael, we’ll discuss that next time.” “Well, if...
