Curdella Forbes Explained

Curdella Forbes is a Jamaican academic and author, winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Fiction for A Tall History of Sugar.

Life and career

Forbes 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

Novels

• Songs of Silence (2002)
• Flying with Icarus (2003)
• A Permanent Freedom (2008)
• Ghosts (2014)
• A Tall History of Sugar (2019)

Non-fiction

• 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)

Further reading

• Book: Mary Ellen Snodgrass. Jamaica Kincaid: A Literary Companion. 9 July 2008. McFarland. 978-0-7864-3580-7. 143–.
• Book: Kate Houlden. Sexuality, Gender and Nationalism in Caribbean Literature. 18 November 2016. Taylor & Francis. 978-1-317-74866-3. 18–.
• Book: J. Dillon Brown. Leah Reade Rosenberg. Beyond Windrush: Rethinking Postwar Anglophone Caribbean Literature. 10 July 2015. University Press of Mississippi. 978-1-62846-476-4. 34–.
• Book: Lisa Tomlinson. The African-Jamaican Aesthetic: Cultural Retention and Transformation Across Borders. 23 January 2017. BRILL. 978-90-04-34233-0. 158–.
• Book: Michael A. Bucknor. Alison Donnell. The Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean Literature. 14 June 2011. Taylor & Francis. 978-1-136-82173-8. 305–.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Curdella Forbes Books - Biography and List of Works - Author of 'A Permanent Freedom' . www.biblio.com . en.
2. Web site: HU COAS Department of English . english.coas.howard.edu . 2018-10-30 . 2018-10-30 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181030205906/http://english.coas.howard.edu/faculty%26staff_forbes.html . dead .
3. Web site: Curdella Forbes Peepal Tree Press . www.peepaltreepress.com . en.
4. Web site: Fiction Book Review: Ghosts by Curdella Forbes. Peepal Tree (IPG, dist.), $19.95 trade paper (179p) ISBN 978-1-84523-200-9 . PublishersWeekly.com . en.
5. Web site: Curdella Forbes - Caribbean SF . Caribbean SF . 2018-10-30 . 2019-07-19 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190719141334/http://caribbeansf.com/authors/curdella-forbes/ . dead .
6. News: Department of Literatures to host writing workshop . jamaica-gleaner.com . en.
7. Web site: "A Community of the Self" Small Axe Project . smallaxe.net . en.
8. Book: Elizabeth Brown-Guillory. Middle Passages and the Healing Place of History: Migration and Identity in Black Women's Literature. 2006. Ohio State University Press. 978-0-8142-1038-3. 117–.