English 300-04: Junior Year Writing: Caribbean Family Sagas (Fall 2019) Mo/We 2:30PM – 3:45PM This seminar will investigate how the conventions of the family-saga novel are used to ease anxieties of belonging among contemporary Caribbean subjects (whose ability to claim
My scattered writing life
Now – after two conferences earlier this semester – I am back to writing in a largely self-directed manner (that is, without the pressing exigency of deadlines), largely about what I like. I am trying to embrace the somewhat scattered results
Toward a conference paper on _Nothing’s Mat_
Here is my (accepted) abstract for the paper on Erna Brodber’s Nothing’s Mat that I will deliver at the West Indian Literature Conference in early October: “Your end is your beginning”: Nothing’s Mat and fractal genealogies Erna Brodber’s Nothing’s Mat (2014) is