Calypso and the Caribbean Literary Imagination: A Special Issue

Editors: Sandra Pouchet Paquet and Stephen Stuempfle

Assistant Editor: Sheri-Marie Harrison

Marielle Barrow - “Essence of Passion”
Permission obtained courtesy of
MarielleStudios.com

CARNIVAL CANNIBALIZED OR CANNIBAL CARNIVALIZED: Contextualizing the “Cannibal Joke” in Calypso and Literature
by Gordon Rohlehr

Bop Girl Goes Calypso: Containing Race and Youth Culture in Cold War America
by Michael S. Eldridge

Reflections of a Legend
by Louis Regis

In the Battle for Emergent Independence: Calypsos of Decolonization
by Ray Funk

Dr. Eric Williams’ Vision for the Development of Carnival
by Hollis Liverpool (Chalkdust)

Calypso and the Bacchanal Connection
by Earl Lovelace

Fugues, Fragments and Fissures - A Work in Progress
by Marlene NourbeSe Philip

Unmasking the Chantwell Narrator in Earl Lovelace’s Fiction
by Funso Aiyejina

Jamette Carnival and Afro-Caribbean Influences on the Work of Jean Rhys
by Cynthia Davis

With a Tassa Blending: Calypso and Cultural Identity in Indo-Caribbean Fiction
by Paula Morgan

“Everybody do the dance”: The Politics of Uniformity in Dancehall and Calypso
by Kezia Page

(Not) Knowing the Difference: Calypso Overseas and the Sound of Belonging In Selected Narratives of Migration
by Jennifer Rahim

“Big Fat Fish”: The Hypersexualization of the Fat Female Body in Calypso and Dancehall
by Andrea Shaw

Men in the Yard and On the Street: Cricket and Calypso in Moon on a Rainbow Shawl and Miguel Street
by Claire Westall