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JWIL has been at the forefront of publishing Caribbean writing and criticism since 1986. https://www.jwilonline.org/

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Journal of West Indian Literature @jwilonline.bsky.social · Jul 12

The Journal of West Indian Literature (@jwilonline) has been at the forefront of publishing Caribbean writing and criticism since 1986. Our most recent issue can be found here:

www.jwilonline.org/current-issue/

Current Issue | Journal of West Indian Literature

Salisha Stanley, “Spirit”, 31 x 39 inches, acrylic on canvas, 2024. Photographed by Shaun Rambaran.

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Journal of West Indian Literature @jwilonline.bsky.social · Jul 22

The current issue of JWIL includes 5 book reviews. Check out the most recent issue of of the journal at:

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Journal of West Indian Literature @jwilonline.bsky.social · Jul 22

Check out out Kezia Page's tribute to Velma Pollard in the latest issue of JWIL

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"An people was talking.
How Miss Velma would do dis an seh dat.
How she aisercht dem language and give it back to dem stylish and strong. How she teach dem.
And tears was flowing."

Journal of West Indian Literature @jwilonline.bsky.social · Jul 22

Check out out Ronald Cummings's tribute to Velma Pollard in the latest issue of JWIL

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"But among the biggest lessons that I learned from Velma (and one of the things I appreciated most about her) was her insistence on appreciating beauty: the beauty of life,"

Journal of West Indian Literature @jwilonline.bsky.social · Jul 22

Check out out Tanya Shirley's tribute to Velma Pollard in the latest issue of the journal

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".. Velma walking out of the room the last time I saw her: back straight, heading for the exit, stopping to look back, a quick scan of the room, then turning and marching on"

Journal of West Indian Literature @jwilonline.bsky.social · Jul 22

Writers from the Drawing Room Project in Jamaica pay tribute to Velma Pollard in the latest issue of the journal

Writers from the Drawing Room Project in Jamaica pay tribute to Velma Pollard in the latest issue of the journal

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Current Issue | Journal of West Indian Literature

Salisha Stanley, “Spirit”, 31 x 39 inches, acrylic on canvas, 2024. Photographed by Shaun Rambaran.

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Journal of West Indian Literature @jwilonline.bsky.social · Jul 22

Check out out Michael A Bucknor's tribute to Velma Pollard in the latest issue of JWIL

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"Velma, the great teacher, has quietly offered me a pedagogy of care: to show concern for others, to stay in touch, to offer support, to be kind..."

Journal of West Indian Literature @jwilonline.bsky.social · Jul 22

Check out out Alison Donnell's tribute to Velma Pollard in the latest issue of JWIL

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"Now that Velma has passed and I will no longer be enriched by the fizz of her in-person energetic brilliance, I am grateful to be able to turn to the volumes she so modestly left"

Journal of West Indian Literature @jwilonline.bsky.social · Jul 22

Check out out Alecia McKenzie's tribute to Velma Pollard in the latest issue of JWIL

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"Velma and I saw each other at the Calabash Literary Festival. In 2012, I took photos of her and Linton Kwesi Johnson"

Journal of West Indian Literature @jwilonline.bsky.social · Jul 22

Check out out Amina Blackwood-Meeks's tribute to Velma Pollard in the latest issue of JWIL

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"We are inspired by Velma’s work as an explorer of ideas on the issues of nationhood and identity. Her words live on in us"

Journal of West Indian Literature @jwilonline.bsky.social · Jul 22

Check out out Evelyn O'Callaghan's tribute to Velma Pollard in the latest issue of JWIL.

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"Her energy was famous, and her zest for life infectious. I remember dancing along with her and Lixie to Rita Marley’s “One Draw."

Journal of West Indian Literature @jwilonline.bsky.social · Jul 22

Check out out Merle Collins's tribute to Velma Pollard in the latest issue of JWIL.

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"Velma communicated warmth by the texture of her smile, the tone of her words, her entire manner of being. I thought of her as friend; colleague; sister writer..."

Journal of West Indian Literature @jwilonline.bsky.social · Jul 22

Check out out Joan Anim-Addo's tribute to Velma Pollard in the latest issue of the journal

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"We would meet from time to time in London, in Kingston, and, perhaps curiously, in Trento, Italy..."

Journal of West Indian Literature @jwilonline.bsky.social · Jul 21

Check out out Maureen Warner-Lewis's tribute to Velma Pollard in the latest issue of the journal

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"No wonder the repercussions of her passing have been felt far and wide, as she was extroverted, generous with intellectual help, and made lifelong friends."

Journal of West Indian Literature @jwilonline.bsky.social · Jul 21

Check out out Betty Wilson's tribute to Velma Pollard in the latest issue of the journal

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"Apart from her many gifts as poet, writer, scholar, and teacher, Velma was just an amazing human being. I was privileged to call her my friend."

Journal of West Indian Literature @jwilonline.bsky.social · Jul 13

JWIL Vol. 33, No. 2, April 2025.

Check out out Jean D'Costa's tribute to Velma Pollard in the latest issue of the journal

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"That was what Velma Pollard gave: fresh vision, the certainty of fair, impartial judgement, and equal conviction to give of our best."

Journal of West Indian Literature @jwilonline.bsky.social · Jul 13

JWIL Vol. 33, No. 2, April 2025, features two interviews.

Anita Baksh interviews Rajiv Mohabir (@rajivmohabir.bsky.social)

Ronald Cummings interviews Linzey Corridon (@westofwestindian.bsky.social)

Check out these interviews in the most recent issue of JWIL.
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Journal of West Indian Literature @jwilonline.bsky.social · Jul 13

JWIL Vol. 33, No. 2, April 2025.

Check out Kris Singh's (@krissingh.bsky.social‬) essay “Artificial Intelligence, Tyrannies, and Nalo Hopkinson's Midnight Robber" in our most recent issue.

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Journal of West Indian Literature @jwilonline.bsky.social · Jul 13

JWIL Vol. 33, No. 2, April 2025.

Check out Gabriel Cambraia Neiva's essay "Wilson Harris, the Zemi Shaman" in our most recent issue.

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Journal of West Indian Literature @jwilonline.bsky.social · Jul 13

JWIL Vol. 33, No. 2, April 2025.

Check out Betsy Nies's essay “Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction and the Impossibility of Innocence: Representing the Trauma of Childhood Experience in Trinidadian Young-Adult Literature"

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Journal of West Indian Literature @jwilonline.bsky.social · Jul 13

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Kris Singh @krissingh.bsky.social · Jul 6

Happy to have my article on artificial intelligence and Nalo Hopkinson's novel Midnight Robber published in the Journal of West Indian Literature. Grateful to the JWIL team, the reviewers, and the issue's editors Michael Bucknor and Aon Ul Abideen.
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Announcing the publication of JWIL's volume 33, number 2, co-edited by Michael A. Bucknor and Aon Ul Abideen. This open issue features cover art by Trinidadian artist, Salisha Stanley; essays by Betsy Nies, Kris Singh, and Gabriel Cambraia; interviews conducted by Anita Baksh and Ronald Cummings in conversation with Rajiv Mohabir and Linzey Corridon respectively; and tributes in honour of Velma Pollard by fellow writers, collaborators, and academics from around the world. We also feature book reviews of Dreams of Archives Unfolded: Absence and Caribbean Life Writing by Jocelyn Fenton Stitt; Fractal Repair: Queer Histories of Modern Jamaica by Matthew Chin; Oh Witness Deh! by Shani Mootoo;...And the Dogs Were Silent /...Et les chiens se taisaient authored by Aime Cesaire and translated by Alex Gil; and VS Naipaul and World Literature by Vijay Mishra.

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differences @differences.bsky.social · Nov 21

"What openings does spacetime provide that the maritime, perhaps, cannot as readily support?" — from our latest issue, read Petal Samuel's "Black Gravity, or a Hidden History of Empire" here: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/...

An excerpt from the linked article, which reads: "If maritime metaphors grapple continuously with how to map Blackness’s trajectories—our relationships to space, the environment, our history, and each other—spacetime metaphors may be more interested in sensing and, thereby, elaborating new ways of knowing: they press on the ways we fail to adequately know and name the fullness of Blackness’s meanings, locations, enactments, and possibilities."

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Journal of West Indian Literature @jwilonline.bsky.social · Jul 12

Current Issue | Journal of West Indian Literature

Salisha Stanley, “Spirit”, 31 x 39 inches, acrylic on canvas, 2024. Photographed by Shaun Rambaran.

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Blacklikewho @blacklikewho.bsky.social · Mar 27

Make Dionne Brand’s words a manifesto for this moment. This time. This present. The to come…

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2020 R.W.B. Jackson Lecture: Dionne Brand and Rinaldo Walcott

YouTube video by Ontario Institute for Studies in Education

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