Beyond the Kumbla : Sylvia Wynter & continuing conversations / Edited by Carole Boyce Davies and Elaine Savory

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Boyce Davies, Carole, editor.

Savory, Elaine, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wynter, Sylvia.

Caribbean literature--History and criticism.

Caribbean literature.

Physical Description:

x, 259 pages : 22 cm

Other Title:

Sylvia Wynter and continuing conversations

Sylvia Wynter and new conversations

Place of Publication:

Trenton, N.J. : Africa World Press, [2026]

Contents:

Acknowledgements

Introduction: from memory to now /

"Forgetting is not possible": interview and selected poems / Nancy Morejón

Talking it over again / Carole Boyce Davies and Elaine Savory

Re-introducing Wynter's "Beyond Miranda's Meanings" / Carole Boyce Davies

Beyond Miranda's meanings: un/silencing the 'Demonic Ground' of Caliban's 'Woman' / Sylvia Wynter

Unsettling our presently brutal genetic valuation complex, or, beyond "Water with Berries" / Katherine McKittrick

On silencing sycorax: colonial discourse and African woman's defiant voices / Abena P.A. Busia

Introduction: another time of meeting: reflections on journeys since 1990 / Elaine Savory

A note on the meaning of Kumbla / Carolyn Cooper

Journeys and responses: creating a new Kumbla / Opal Palmer Adisa

Coming Out of the Kumbla, out of the closet / Gisele Anatol

La díficil esperanza/the difficult expectation: the inclusion of women in the Caribbean literature canon / Sandra Messinger Cypress

Out of the Kumbla: finding voice and community in Caribbean literature / Marcia Douglas

Woman time a come / Ramabai Espinet

Technologies of the autopoesis: the urgencies of Our of the Kumbla / Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vásquez

From Out of the Kumbla to Sucking Salt: a Caribbean feminist journey / Meredith Gadsby

Learning from the art of Kumbla conversation / Erica Johnson

When you said what you said: Out of the Kumbla birthed a generation of conversations / Anu Lakhan

Flying out of the Kumbla: "Let our words bring wings to our feet" / Myriam Moïse

Reflections on Caribbian women's writing / Evelyn O'Callaghan

A Sankofa moment: discovering the source of my own scholarly trajectory / Donna Aza Weir-Soley

Out of the Kumbla and reflections on writing by women from the Francophone Caribbean / Elizabeth (Betty) Wilson

Contributors

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references

ISBN:

156902894X

9781569028940

1569028958

9781569028957

OCLC:

1569862568