Anthurium, a peer reviewed Caribbean Studies Journal, publishes original works and critical studies of Caribbean literature, theater, film, art, and culture by writers and scholars worldwide exclusively in electronic form. Founded by Sandra Pouchet Paquet in 2003, Anthurium promotes a lively exchange among writers and scholars in the arts, humanities, and social sciences and other disciplines who hold diverse perspectives on Caribbean literature and culture and offers a mixture of fiction, poetry, plays, critical essays, cultural studies, interviews, and visual art. Book reviews and bibliographies, special thematic issues and original art and photography are some of the features of this international journal of Caribbean arts and letters.
Current Issue: Volume 13, Issue 2 (2016)
Editor's Note
Contributors
Anthurium Editors
Articles
Maps of Intimate and Institutional Change in Merle Collins’s Angel and Oonya Kempadoo’s Tide Running
Clare M. Sigrist
The Rhyming Irons of Abdur-Rahman Slade Hopkinson
Paul Thifault
Smoke and Mirrors: Generic Manipulation and Doubling in Dancing to “Almendra”
Amanda Ruth Waugh Lagji
The Trope of Flattening and the Complexities of Difference: An Account of Trinidad Carnival
Nanette De Jong and Christian Mieves
To Be Dragon and Man: The Cultural Politics of Carnival in Earl Lovelace’s The Dragon Can’t Dance
Richard McGuire
The Anxiety of Racialized Sexuality in Jean Rhys
Yanoula Athanassakis
Interview
Bringing It All Together: The Creative Process of Artist and Writer Jacqueline Bishop
Loretta Collins Klobah
Reviews
A Caribbean Continuum of Desire and its Limits
Elena Machado Saez
Editorial Board
- Senior Editors
- Patricia J. Saunders
- Donette A. Francis
- Review Editor
- Raphael Dalleo
- Managing Editor
- Allison N. Harris
- Graduate Research Assistant
- Samina Gul Ali
Cover Art
www.papamachete.com/The short film Papa Machete is a glimpse into the life of Alfred Avril, an aging subsistence farmer who lives in the hills of Jacmel, Haiti. He also happens to be a master of the mysterious martial art of Haitian machete fencing, also known as Tire Machèt. Teaching about the practical and spiritual value of the machete—which is both a weapon and a farmer’s key to survival—Avril provides a bridge between his country’s traditional past and its troubled present. The film had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival 2014 and later had its U.S. premiere at the Sundance Film Festival 2015. It has since screened at more than 30 film festivals worldwide. Papa Machete is directed by Jonathan David Kane, and is the first film from Third Horizon, a Caribbean creative collective based in Miami.