Kelly Baker Josephs
Biographic Data
| ID | 150583 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kelly Baker Josephs |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kelly Baker |
| FAMILY NAME | Josephs |
| SIGNATURE | JOSEPHS K B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Miami |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Caribbean Afrofutures
This essay questions what it means for Afrofuturism to be re-visioned via the “implications of location” that Nadi Edwards argues is central to critical theory, particularly Black diasporic theory. What does a Caribcentric Afrofuture look like, and what does its difference from a North American–centric Afrofuture say about the contemporary cultures of where those of the African diaspora landed? What care must be taken in putting these different v…
The Quiet Force of Paule Marshall
In 1985
La fuerza tranquila de Paule Marshall
Paule Marshall fue una escritora en calmaNo, eso no es del todo correcto.Ella fue una fuerza en calma.Su magisterio residió en la construcción de una narración, de un escenario, un personaje y una trama, palabra a palabra, cuidadosamente seleccionadas.No fue una escritora de brillos
The Digital Black Atlantic
This timely collection of essays about the relationship between digital humanities and Black Atlantic studies offers critical insights into race, migration, media, and scholarly knowledge production. It spans the African diasporaâ s rangeâ from Africa to North America, Europe, and the Caribbeanâ while its essayists span academic fieldsâ from history and literary studies to musicology, game studies, and library and information studies
Caribbean Studies in Digital Space and Time
This essay is part of a special section on Edward Kamau Brathwaite's 1975 essay "Caribbean Man in Space and Time" (reprinted in the issue), briefly tracing the dissemination history of Brathwaite's essay, then focusing on two main lines of argument in it to explore their significance for current practices and possibilities in Caribbean studies. Using three contemporary digital projects as examples, the author elaborates on the potential affordanc…
Caribbean Man in Space and Time
After the Collaboration
(2019). After the Collaboration. Caribbean Quarterly: Vol. 65, Removing Roadblocks, pp. 405-420
The Work of Paule Marshall Today
Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal includes scholarship on the work of visual artists, commentary on current issues in Caribbean studies and travelogues. Anthurium remains committed to bridging the digital divide by making peer reviewed, scholarly articles and creative writing available to teachers, students, scholars and persons interested in Caribbean literature and culture worldwide without fee based subscriptions. We would like to thank t…
Handling with Care
Part of a special section titled "What Is Journal Work?," this reflective essay discusses the ethical questions of editing sx salon: a small axe literary platform. The author's goal in the essay is twofold: to make transparent the work of journal work, the hours of labor that often remain invisible in our culture of individual authorship; and to emphasize the moments during this work when "care," a concept the author develops throughout the essay…
Determining the Difficult
Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal includes scholarship on the work of visual artists, commentary on current issues in Caribbean studies and travelogues. Anthurium remains committed to bridging the digital divide by making peer reviewed, scholarly articles and creative writing available to teachers, students, scholars and persons interested in Caribbean literature and culture worldwide without fee based subscriptions. We would like to thank t…
Difficult Diasporas
As scholars and teachers, we often shy away from texts even though we feel deep down they are doing something important ; important to our work, to our students, and to our sense of the world and ourselves. In Difficult Diasporas: The Transnational Feminist Aesthetic of the Black Atlantic , Samantha Pinto shows how we might approach some of these texts as readers and literary critics and, ultimately, why we need to risk teaching them. In glossing…
Critical Company
Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal includes scholarship on the work of visual artists, commentary on current issues in Caribbean studies and travelogues. Anthurium remains committed to bridging the digital divide by making peer reviewed, scholarly articles and creative writing available to teachers, students, scholars and persons interested in Caribbean literature and culture worldwide without fee based subscriptions. We would like to thank t…
Articulating Caribbean Epistemologies
Research Article| March 01 2014 Articulating Caribbean Epistemologies Kelly Baker Josephs Kelly Baker Josephs Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 99–102. https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2642782 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Cit…
Beyond Geography, Past Time
“See you there. In the free.” This is the closing statement in Erna Brodber's fourth novel, The Rainmaker's Mistake (2007). In the novel, Brodber creatively imagines a past for the New World present, taking advantage of the space literary speculation and science fiction offer to create a counterhistory of the present. Reading the novel through the lens of Afrofuturism and via Kamau Brathwaite's conception of a Caribbean cosmology and Sylvia Wynte…
Dreams, Delirium, and Decolonization in Derek Walcott's Dream on Monkey Mountain
Derek Walcott's Dream on Monkey Mountain (1967) places emphasis on the connections between what Walcott terms the “given minds of the principal characters,” their possible madness, and their ambiguous dreams. Walcott takes full advantage of the dramatic form to explore madness and dream, creating a doubled division for his characters and audience between fantasy and reality, madness and sanity. In this essay, This article reads Walcott's choice o…
The Rainmaker's Mistake
Reviewed by: The Rainmaker’s Mistake Kelly Baker Josephs (bio) Brodber, Erna. The Rainmaker’s Mistake. London: New Beacon, 2007. “If who know, nah talk, you haffi work it out child. You just haffi work it out” (59). Erna Brodber’s fourth work of fiction attempts to “work out” the question of present day black diasporic identity. The text offers readers a challenge that, in form and content, is simultaneously novel and not novel. In general, Brodb…
Versions of X/Self
Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal includes scholarship on the work of visual artists, commentary on current issues in Caribbean studies and travelogues. Anthurium remains committed to bridging the digital divide by making peer reviewed, scholarly articles and creative writing available to teachers, students, scholars and persons interested in Caribbean literature and culture worldwide without fee based subscriptions. We would like to thank t…
Handling with Care
Part of a special section titled "What Is Journal Work?," this reflective essay discusses the ethical questions of editing sx salon: a small axe literary platform. The author's goal in the essay is twofold: to make transparent the work of journal work, the hours of labor that often remain invisible in our culture of individual authorship; and to emphasize the moments during this work when "care," a concept the author develops throughout the essay…
Dreams, Delirium, and Decolonization in Derek Walcott's Dream on Monkey Mountain
Derek Walcott's Dream on Monkey Mountain (1967) places emphasis on the connections between what Walcott terms the “given minds of the principal characters,” their possible madness, and their ambiguous dreams. Walcott takes full advantage of the dramatic form to explore madness and dream, creating a doubled division for his characters and audience between fantasy and reality, madness and sanity. In this essay, This article reads Walcott's choice o…
Versions of X/Self
Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal includes scholarship on the work of visual artists, commentary on current issues in Caribbean studies and travelogues. Anthurium remains committed to bridging the digital divide by making peer reviewed, scholarly articles and creative writing available to teachers, students, scholars and persons interested in Caribbean literature and culture worldwide without fee based subscriptions. We would like to thank t…
Versions of X/Self
Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal includes scholarship on the work of visual artists, commentary on current issues in Caribbean studies and travelogues. Anthurium remains committed to bridging the digital divide by making peer reviewed, scholarly articles and creative writing available to teachers, students, scholars and persons interested in Caribbean literature and culture worldwide without fee based subscriptions. We would like to thank t…
The Rainmaker's Mistake
Reviewed by: The Rainmaker’s Mistake Kelly Baker Josephs (bio) Brodber, Erna. The Rainmaker’s Mistake. London: New Beacon, 2007. “If who know, nah talk, you haffi work it out child. You just haffi work it out” (59). Erna Brodber’s fourth work of fiction attempts to “work out” the question of present day black diasporic identity. The text offers readers a challenge that, in form and content, is simultaneously novel and not novel. In general, Brodb…
Dreams, Delirium, and Decolonization in Derek Walcott's Dream on Monkey Mountain
Derek Walcott's Dream on Monkey Mountain (1967) places emphasis on the connections between what Walcott terms the “given minds of the principal characters,” their possible madness, and their ambiguous dreams. Walcott takes full advantage of the dramatic form to explore madness and dream, creating a doubled division for his characters and audience between fantasy and reality, madness and sanity. In this essay, This article reads Walcott's choice o…
Beyond Geography, Past Time
“See you there. In the free.” This is the closing statement in Erna Brodber's fourth novel, The Rainmaker's Mistake (2007). In the novel, Brodber creatively imagines a past for the New World present, taking advantage of the space literary speculation and science fiction offer to create a counterhistory of the present. Reading the novel through the lens of Afrofuturism and via Kamau Brathwaite's conception of a Caribbean cosmology and Sylvia Wynte…
Critical Company
Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal includes scholarship on the work of visual artists, commentary on current issues in Caribbean studies and travelogues. Anthurium remains committed to bridging the digital divide by making peer reviewed, scholarly articles and creative writing available to teachers, students, scholars and persons interested in Caribbean literature and culture worldwide without fee based subscriptions. We would like to thank t…
Articulating Caribbean Epistemologies
Research Article| March 01 2014 Articulating Caribbean Epistemologies Kelly Baker Josephs Kelly Baker Josephs Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 99–102. https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2642782 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Cit…
Determining the Difficult
Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal includes scholarship on the work of visual artists, commentary on current issues in Caribbean studies and travelogues. Anthurium remains committed to bridging the digital divide by making peer reviewed, scholarly articles and creative writing available to teachers, students, scholars and persons interested in Caribbean literature and culture worldwide without fee based subscriptions. We would like to thank t…
Difficult Diasporas
As scholars and teachers, we often shy away from texts even though we feel deep down they are doing something important ; important to our work, to our students, and to our sense of the world and ourselves. In Difficult Diasporas: The Transnational Feminist Aesthetic of the Black Atlantic , Samantha Pinto shows how we might approach some of these texts as readers and literary critics and, ultimately, why we need to risk teaching them. In glossing…
Handling with Care
Part of a special section titled "What Is Journal Work?," this reflective essay discusses the ethical questions of editing sx salon: a small axe literary platform. The author's goal in the essay is twofold: to make transparent the work of journal work, the hours of labor that often remain invisible in our culture of individual authorship; and to emphasize the moments during this work when "care," a concept the author develops throughout the essay…
The Work of Paule Marshall Today
Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal includes scholarship on the work of visual artists, commentary on current issues in Caribbean studies and travelogues. Anthurium remains committed to bridging the digital divide by making peer reviewed, scholarly articles and creative writing available to teachers, students, scholars and persons interested in Caribbean literature and culture worldwide without fee based subscriptions. We would like to thank t…
After the Collaboration
(2019). After the Collaboration. Caribbean Quarterly: Vol. 65, Removing Roadblocks, pp. 405-420
The Digital Black Atlantic
This timely collection of essays about the relationship between digital humanities and Black Atlantic studies offers critical insights into race, migration, media, and scholarly knowledge production. It spans the African diasporaâ s rangeâ from Africa to North America, Europe, and the Caribbeanâ while its essayists span academic fieldsâ from history and literary studies to musicology, game studies, and library and information studies
Caribbean Studies in Digital Space and Time
This essay is part of a special section on Edward Kamau Brathwaite's 1975 essay "Caribbean Man in Space and Time" (reprinted in the issue), briefly tracing the dissemination history of Brathwaite's essay, then focusing on two main lines of argument in it to explore their significance for current practices and possibilities in Caribbean studies. Using three contemporary digital projects as examples, the author elaborates on the potential affordanc…
Caribbean Man in Space and Time
The Quiet Force of Paule Marshall
In 1985
La fuerza tranquila de Paule Marshall
Paule Marshall fue una escritora en calmaNo, eso no es del todo correcto.Ella fue una fuerza en calma.Su magisterio residió en la construcción de una narración, de un escenario, un personaje y una trama, palabra a palabra, cuidadosamente seleccionadas.No fue una escritora de brillos
Caribbean Afrofutures
This essay questions what it means for Afrofuturism to be re-visioned via the “implications of location” that Nadi Edwards argues is central to critical theory, particularly Black diasporic theory. What does a Caribcentric Afrofuture look like, and what does its difference from a North American–centric Afrofuture say about the contemporary cultures of where those of the African diaspora landed? What care must be taken in putting these different v…
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