Graphic artists and writers from Guadeloupe, Martinique, and Haiti provide perspectives on how to better craft graphic novels and comic books that honor Caribbean sensibilities. With Jessica Oublié (Guadeloupe/Martinique), Ralph […]
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Children’s writers from Jamaica get together to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the island’s independence, and explore the continuity and convergence of childhood and adulthood in Caribbean fiction. With Janet
Writers and illustrators from Cuba, Puerto-Rico, and Haiti put forth visions for a more expansive future in Caribbean literature for young readers. With Terry Catasús Jennings and Raúl Colón (Cuba)
Caribbean writers explore the dichotomies that permeate life in the Caribbean, a place that is vibrant and joyous but also riddled with corruption and violence. They discuss the fascinating traditions
Four Caribbean writers discuss the unreality of reality and the truth of the fantastic in their work. Jasmine Sealy (Barbados) on The Island of Forgetting, Opal Palmer Adisa (Jamaica) on
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Transcript in English available on http://www.sosyetekoukouy.org/koukouy-tv In his memoir Saga Boy: My Life of Blackness and Becoming, Antonio Michael Downing (Trinidad) traces the arc, through loss and displacement, of his search
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Transcript in English available on http://www.sosyetekoukouy.org/koukouy-tv In her debut How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House: A Novel, Cherie S.A. Jones (Barbados) tells a story of four people in Barbados, each
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