Author Archives: Maxine Anderson
Caribbean (Digital) Poetry Resources
Resources for Poets Seawoman’s Caribbean Writing Opps Offering “carefully selected resources and markets for writers of several genres of the Caribbean and beyond,” this is an incredibly useful (and regularly updated) compendium of submission and publication opportunities. Websites and e-zines
Caribbean (Digital) Poetry Resources
Resources for Poets Seawoman’s Caribbean Writing Opps Offering “carefully selected resources and markets for writers of several genres of the Caribbean and beyond,” this is an incredibly useful (and regularly updated) compendium of submission and publication opportunities. Websites and e-zines
Making Room for the Magical: Glave, Naniki, and the Archive
Due to my inattentiveness when downloading this week’s readings (ah, the perils of digital pedagogy!) I began reading Thomas Glave’s essay “Whose Caribbean?” thinking that it was actually the introduction to the anthology Our Caribbean. Imagine my surprise at being
Making Room for the Magical: Glave, Naniki, and the Archive
Due to my inattentiveness when downloading this week’s readings (ah, the perils of digital pedagogy!) I began reading Thomas Glave’s essay “Whose Caribbean?” thinking that it was actually the introduction to the anthology Our Caribbean. Imagine my surprise at being
Review of Anthurium: A Journal of Caribbean Studies
Perhaps it’s unfair to Anthurium – and to other websites whose resources skew heavily toward the archival, the searchable, and the textual — that the user’s experience (and thus, this review) begins with and ends up grounded in the “front
Review of Anthurium: A Journal of Caribbean Studies
Perhaps it’s unfair to Anthurium – and to other websites whose resources skew heavily toward the archival, the searchable, and the textual — that the user’s experience (and thus, this review) begins with and ends up grounded in the “front
Digital Spaces in Physical Contexts
This week, I struggled somewhat with Jennifer Brinkerhoff’s critical engagement with diaspora and the digital (and their various points of intersection), so I’m going to write through my issues with the text in hopes of reaching a clearer perspective for
Digital Spaces in Physical Contexts
This week, I struggled somewhat with Jennifer Brinkerhoff’s critical engagement with diaspora and the digital (and their various points of intersection), so I’m going to write through my issues with the text in hopes of reaching a clearer perspective for
Robot Poetry: Representation & Technological Poetics
W.J.T. Mitchell, in his gloss of the notion of “representation,” addresses Aristotle’s Poetics, commenting particularly on Aristotle’s criteria for distinguishing representations from one another — but he changes Aristotle’s language slightly. Where Aristotle speaks of the object, the manner, and the
Robot Poetry: Representation & Technological Poetics
W.J.T. Mitchell, in his gloss of the notion of “representation,” addresses Aristotle’s Poetics, commenting particularly on Aristotle’s criteria for distinguishing representations from one another — but he changes Aristotle’s language slightly. Where Aristotle speaks of the object, the manner, and the
Are we ready for post-post-colonialism?
In The Politics of Caribbean Cyberculture, Curwen Best argues that “…the transnation is…already an aging concept” because “[t]he cyber state has superseded it as a frontier category” (26). The suggestion that ‘transnation’ or the ‘transnational’ are losing their currency as
Are we ready for post-post-colonialism?
In The Politics of Caribbean Cyberculture, Curwen Best argues that “…the transnation is…already an aging concept” because “[t]he cyber state has superseded it as a frontier category” (26). The suggestion that ‘transnation’ or the ‘transnational’ are losing their currency as
The Limitations (?) of Geography
Though Derek Walcott’s essay is the only one to explicitly (deeply, intimately, affectively) confront the “Caribbean” — Stuart Hall addresses it in passing several times as part of his larger critical-theoretical overview, and Nicholas Negroponte takes as his subject the
The Limitations (?) of Geography
Though Derek Walcott’s essay is the only one to explicitly (deeply, intimately, affectively) confront the “Caribbean” — Stuart Hall addresses it in passing several times as part of his larger critical-theoretical overview, and Nicholas Negroponte takes as his subject the
