In memoriam: Léon-Gontran Damas
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New arrival of Ulrike Schmieder
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Call for Papers “Rethinking Europe from the Caribbean: Entanglements and Legacies” 12-15 April, 2018 Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Germany
Call for Papers “Rethinking Europe from the Caribbean: Entanglements and Legacies” 12-15 April, 2018 Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Germany The multiple ties that bind the Caribbean and Europe are the main focus of the conference marking 30 years since the Society for Caribbean Research (Socare) was founded. The Caribbean was the first region to […]
Obituary Jean Bernabé
Jean Bernabé, the renowned Martinican linguist and writer, passed away on April, 12 2017 after a prolonged illness. Bernabé was one of the most important figures in the domain of Creole Studies and therefore leaves a large gap within research communities of the whole world. The professor emeritus of the University of the French West […]
CfP: African Diasporic and Indigenous American Religious Traditions: Continuities, Intersections and Global Impact
Indigenous and African Diasporic communities practice spirit-based religious traditions throughout the Americas. The core of these traditions is indigenous or African but they also absorb elements of colonial traditions, especially from Catholic, Protestant and Freemason sources. Indigenous and African Diasporic traditions have also had contact with one another. African Diasporic spirit-based religious traditions include Vodou, […]
New Open Access Academic Journal for Caribbean Studies
New Open Access Academic Journal for Caribbean Studies Karib: Nordic Journal for Caribbean Studies (ISSN 2387-6743) is a peer-reviewed open-access journal for research articles. The focus is on literature and literary theory, but we welcome articles with a cross-disciplinary approach seeking to engage in dialogue with various fields, notably history, anthropology, art, aesthetics, performance studies, […]
Obituary Derek Walcott (1930-2017)
The Caribbean poet, essayist, painter and Nobel laureate Derek Walcott has passed away. Walcott, who was born in 1930 in St. Lucia and died there on March 17th, 2017, is the author of countless collections of poetry, pieces of theater and of the epic poems Omeros and Tiepolo’ Hound, which present reflections on the culture(s) […]