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Cyberculture, Curwen Best argues that “…the transnation is…already an aging concept” because “[t]he cyber state has superseded it as a frontier category” (26).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 present absence of women and gender

In the introduction to Antonio Benítez Rojo’s The Repeating Island, I was immediately struck by the jarring image of the Caribbean with a vagina stretched between the continental clamps of the “encomienda of Indians and the slaveholding plantation” and from

Miss Always Stressed the Importance of Re-reading

In the introduction of Antonio Benitez-Rojo’s The Repeating Island, he presents a thought-provoking and illuminating concept; one that most certainly rouses the quintessential scholar or budding scholar of Caribbean literature and culture.  This idea of “rereading” the Caribbean I have

Dualistic Chaos

In looking at Repeating Islands and in reading Antonio Benitez-Rojo’s The Repeating Island: The Caribbean, there is more in common that simply a name. The author brings up the theme of dualism and Chaos, with a capital ‘C’ for reasons