Over the past
year, several international journals have been focusing on Caribbean diasporic
issues, including memory and literature, with scholarly articles and creative
work.
Among the most
recent is the African and Black Diaspora journal, which has published a special
issue titled “African-Caribbean Women Interrogating Diaspora/Post-diaspora” -
now available online.
“The articles
in this issue originated as papers presented at a conference held at London
South Bank University in July 2018, representing the work of a network of
scholars from the UK, Canada and the Caribbean,” says Dr Suzanne Scafe, who
edited the special issue with Dr Leith Dunn.
The
contributors “had been focusing on Caribbean women’s mobility, and, in
particular, issues of diaspora, globalization and transnationalism,” adds
Scafe, (See her earlier SWAN article.)
African and
Black Diaspora describes itself as a “multi-disciplinary peer-reviewed
international journal that seeks to broaden and deepen our understanding of the
lived experiences of people of African descent across the globe by publishing
theoretically and historically informed as well as empirically grounded works
in the social sciences and humanities that are intellectually challenging and
illuminating”.
It is part of
the Taylor & Francis Group, which publishes some 2,700 journals and more
than 5,000 new books each year
For information
on the contents of the special issue, please see:
BABEL
For those who speak French as well as English, a special bilingual issue of BABEL looks at “Écritures minoritaires de la mémoire dans les Amériques” (Memorial Minor Writings in the Americas).
For those who speak French as well as English, a special bilingual issue of BABEL looks at “Écritures minoritaires de la mémoire dans les Amériques” (Memorial Minor Writings in the Americas).
The scholarly
articles discuss literature of the Americas (within the theoretical framework of "minoritaire" writing), with a focus on memory, history and resistance to domination.
Edited by Dr Anne Garrait-Bourrier and Dr Christine Dualé, professors at universities in France, the volume has a foreword by Jamaican author Alecia McKenzie (SWAN’s founder).
The Caribbean
writers whose works are analysed include Edwidge Danticat and Paule Marshall,
among a wide-ranging collection that also examines “voices of
rebellion” and memory in works by African American authors Toni Morrison, John Edgar Wideman, James Baldwin, Jean Toomer, and Octavia Butler.
BABEL is published by the Université de Toulon in southern France. The open-access
issue is available at: https://journals.openedition.org/babel/6521
