Curdella Forbes is a Jamaican academic and author, winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Fiction for A Tall History of Sugar.
Curdella Forbes | |
|---|---|
| Born | Curdella Forbes Colony of Jamaica, British Empire |
| Occupation | Novelist, nonfiction writer, professor, academic |
| Education | University of the West Indies (PhD) |
| Genre | Literary fiction |
| Notable awards | Hurston/Wright Legacy Award |
Life and career
editForbes has been professor of Caribbean literature at Howard University since 2004 after working at the University of the West Indies, Mona, which was where she also received her doctorate in 2000. She has also been writer in residence at University of the West Indies, Mona.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]
Selected works
editNovels
edit- Songs of Silence (2002)
- Flying with Icarus (2003)
- A Permanent Freedom (2008)
- Ghosts (2014)
- A Tall History of Sugar (2019)
Non-fiction
edit- Revisiting Samuel Selvon's Trilogy of Exile: Implications for Gender Consciousness and Gender Relations in Caribbean Culture (1997)
- Tropes of the Carnivalesque: Hermaphroditic Gender as Identity in Slave Society and in West Indian Fictions (1999)
- Through the Lens of Gender: A Revisionary Reading of the Novels of Samuel Selvon and George Lamming (2000)
- Shakespeare, Other Shakespeares and West Indian Popular Culture: A Reading of the Erotics of Errantry and Rebellion in 'Troilus and Cressida (2001)
- The End of Nationalism?: Performing the Question in Benítez-Rojo's 'The Repeating Island' and Glissant's 'Poetics of Relation' (2002)
- Selling That Caribbean Woman Down the River: Diasporic Travel Narratives and the Global Economy (2005)
- Fracturing Subjectivities: International Space and the Discourse of Individualism in Colin Channer's 'Waiting in Vain' and Jamaica Kincaid's 'Mr. Potter' (2008)
- "Trespassers Will Be Persecuted": Reading Migratory Subjectivities in Maryse Condé's 'Heremakhonon' and Perambulatory Chain Emails (2010)
- Between Plot and Plantation, Trespass and Transgression: Caribbean Migratory Disobedience in Fiction and Internet Traffic (2012)
References
edit- ^ "Curdella Forbes Books - Biography and List of Works - Author of 'A Permanent Freedom'". www.biblio.com.
- ^ "HU | COAS | Department of English". english.coas.howard.edu. Archived from the original on 2018-10-30. Retrieved 2018-10-30.
- ^ "Curdella Forbes | Peepal Tree Press". www.peepaltreepress.com.
- ^ "Fiction Book Review: Ghosts by Curdella Forbes. Peepal Tree (IPG, dist.), $19.95 trade paper (179p) ISBN 978-1-84523-200-9". PublishersWeekly.com.
- ^ "Curdella Forbes - Caribbean SF". Caribbean SF. Archived from the original on 2019-07-19. Retrieved 2018-10-30.
- ^ "Department of Literatures to host writing workshop". jamaica-gleaner.com.
- ^ ""A Community of the Self" | Small Axe Project". smallaxe.net.
- ^ Elizabeth Brown-Guillory (2006). Middle Passages and the Healing Place of History: Migration and Identity in Black Women's Literature. Ohio State University Press. pp. 117–. ISBN 978-0-8142-1038-3.
Further reading
edit- Mary Ellen Snodgrass (9 July 2008). Jamaica Kincaid: A Literary Companion. McFarland. pp. 143–. ISBN 978-0-7864-3580-7.
- Kate Houlden (18 November 2016). Sexuality, Gender and Nationalism in Caribbean Literature. Taylor & Francis. pp. 18–. ISBN 978-1-317-74866-3.
- J. Dillon Brown; Leah Reade Rosenberg (10 July 2015). Beyond Windrush: Rethinking Postwar Anglophone Caribbean Literature. University Press of Mississippi. pp. 34–. ISBN 978-1-62846-476-4.
- Lisa Tomlinson (23 January 2017). The African-Jamaican Aesthetic: Cultural Retention and Transformation Across Borders. BRILL. pp. 158–. ISBN 978-90-04-34233-0.
- Michael A. Bucknor; Alison Donnell (14 June 2011). The Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean Literature. Taylor & Francis. pp. 305–. ISBN 978-1-136-82173-8.