Curdella Forbes
Biographic Data
| ID | 3922289 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Curdella Forbes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Curdella |
| FAMILY NAME | Forbes |
| SIGNATURE | FORBES C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California San Diego |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8120-8919 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Beyond History: Rise of a New World
Writing in Culture and Imperialism in 1993, fifteen years after Orientalism, the book widely seen as having launched the practice of postcolonial theory, Edward Said situates Caribbean literature and ideas within his later thought on European empire and colonialism in the world beyond the Middle East [...]
Bodies of Horror in Marlon James's The Book of Night Women and Clovis Brown's Cartoons
This examination of Marlon James's novel The Book of Night Women and a selection of Clovis Brown's newspaper cartoons posits these Jamaican-authored works as texts that instantiate a uniquely Caribbean aesthetics of horror in their response to historical and contemporary events. Both artists excavate genealogies of horror at the root of Caribbean identity discourse, tracing this through sexual histories linked, respectively, to femaleness and mal…
Caribbean Women Writing: Social Media, Spirituality and the Arts of Solitude in Edwidge Danticat's Haiti
(2014). Caribbean Women Writing: Social Media, Spirituality and the Arts of Solitude in Edwidge Danticat's Haiti. Caribbean Quarterly: Vol. 60, Memory, Reconciliation, Freedom, pp. 1-22
Between Plot and Plantation, Trespass and Transgression: Caribbean Migratory Disobedience in Fiction and Internet Traffic
Curdella Forbes deploys a complex of historically marked territorial metaphors- plot , plantation , squatting , trespass , and transgression -to read two apparently different texts, Maryse Conde's quasi-tragic 1976 novel Heremakhonon , which is set on the African continent, and a hilarious e-mail (which Forbes has titled "Puncie") circulated on the Internet. Arguing that these diachronous texts exemplify a culture of ideological disobedience that…
Fracturing Subjectivities: International Space and the Discourse of Individualism in Colin Channer's Waiting in Vain and Jamaica Kincaid's Mr. Potter
This article addresses a concept of individualism that has emerged in some contemporary Caribbean fictions. I examine the evidence of this in a general way and then with reference to Jamaica Kincaid's Mr. Potter and Colin Channer's Waiting in Vain. I suggest that their individualism, though seemingly anomalous to diasporan thought, is in fact an “uncanny” product of the diasporan search for connections across borders
From Nation to Diaspora: Samuel Selvon, George Lamming And the Cultural Performance of Gender
This book is a discussion of gender in West Indian culture. It undertakes the discussion through a revisionary reading of gender in selected novels written by Samuel Selvon and George Lamming from the 1950s to the 1970s. This was a period in which nationalism in the West Indies (anglophone Caribbean) reached its highest level of consolidation
Representing the West in the Arabic Language: The Slave Narrative of Omar Ibn Said
The autobiography of the West African slave Omar ibn Said is the earliest piece of extant Arabic writing on American soil. Omar Ibn Said was captured as a slave and arrived in the USA in 1807. About twenty-five years after his arrival, he was commissioned to write an autobiography in the Arabic language, which he had studied for religious purposes in his native land. Unlike most slave narratives that have come to light, Ibn Said's is remarkable i…
Writing the Autobiography of My Father (review)
Book Review| March 01 2003 Writing the Autobiography of My Father Curdella Forbes Curdella Forbes Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Small Axe (2003) 7 (1): 172–176. https://doi.org/10.1215/-7-1-172 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Curdella Forbes; Writing the Autobiography of My Father. Small Axe 1 March 2003; 7 (1): 172–176. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/-7-1-172 Download citation f…
Writing the Autobiography of My Father
Book Review| March 01 2003 Writing the Autobiography of My Father Curdella Forbes Curdella Forbes Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Small Axe (2003) 7 (1): 172–176. https://doi.org/10.1215/-7-1-172 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Curdella Forbes; Writing the Autobiography of My Father. Small Axe 1 March 2003; 7 (1): 172–176. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/-7-1-172 Download citation f…
Shakespeare, Other Shakespeares and West Indian Popular Culture: A Reading of the Erotics of Errantry and Rebellion in Troilus and Cressida
or some readers, my title no doubt begs a question: What has Shakespeare got to do with any kind of popular culture, much less with West Indian popular culture
Revisiting Samuel Selvon's Trilogy of Exile: Implications For Gender Consciousness and Gender Relations in Caribbean Culture
(1997). Revisiting Samuel Selvon's Trilogy of Exile: Implications For Gender Consciousness and Gender Relations in Caribbean Culture. Caribbean Quarterly: Vol. 43, Conference on Caribbean Culture. In Honour of Professor Rex Nettleford. The Literature Papers, pp. 47-63
Bodies of Horror in Marlon James's The Book of Night Women and Clovis Brown's Cartoons
This examination of Marlon James's novel The Book of Night Women and a selection of Clovis Brown's newspaper cartoons posits these Jamaican-authored works as texts that instantiate a uniquely Caribbean aesthetics of horror in their response to historical and contemporary events. Both artists excavate genealogies of horror at the root of Caribbean identity discourse, tracing this through sexual histories linked, respectively, to femaleness and mal…
Between Plot and Plantation, Trespass and Transgression: Caribbean Migratory Disobedience in Fiction and Internet Traffic
Curdella Forbes deploys a complex of historically marked territorial metaphors- plot , plantation , squatting , trespass , and transgression -to read two apparently different texts, Maryse Conde's quasi-tragic 1976 novel Heremakhonon , which is set on the African continent, and a hilarious e-mail (which Forbes has titled "Puncie") circulated on the Internet. Arguing that these diachronous texts exemplify a culture of ideological disobedience that…
Representing the West in the Arabic Language: The Slave Narrative of Omar Ibn Said
The autobiography of the West African slave Omar ibn Said is the earliest piece of extant Arabic writing on American soil. Omar Ibn Said was captured as a slave and arrived in the USA in 1807. About twenty-five years after his arrival, he was commissioned to write an autobiography in the Arabic language, which he had studied for religious purposes in his native land. Unlike most slave narratives that have come to light, Ibn Said's is remarkable i…
Fracturing Subjectivities: International Space and the Discourse of Individualism in Colin Channer's Waiting in Vain and Jamaica Kincaid's Mr. Potter
This article addresses a concept of individualism that has emerged in some contemporary Caribbean fictions. I examine the evidence of this in a general way and then with reference to Jamaica Kincaid's Mr. Potter and Colin Channer's Waiting in Vain. I suggest that their individualism, though seemingly anomalous to diasporan thought, is in fact an “uncanny” product of the diasporan search for connections across borders
Revisiting Samuel Selvon's Trilogy of Exile: Implications For Gender Consciousness and Gender Relations in Caribbean Culture
(1997). Revisiting Samuel Selvon's Trilogy of Exile: Implications For Gender Consciousness and Gender Relations in Caribbean Culture. Caribbean Quarterly: Vol. 43, Conference on Caribbean Culture. In Honour of Professor Rex Nettleford. The Literature Papers, pp. 47-63
Shakespeare, Other Shakespeares and West Indian Popular Culture: A Reading of the Erotics of Errantry and Rebellion in Troilus and Cressida
or some readers, my title no doubt begs a question: What has Shakespeare got to do with any kind of popular culture, much less with West Indian popular culture
Writing the Autobiography of My Father (review)
Book Review| March 01 2003 Writing the Autobiography of My Father Curdella Forbes Curdella Forbes Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Small Axe (2003) 7 (1): 172–176. https://doi.org/10.1215/-7-1-172 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Curdella Forbes; Writing the Autobiography of My Father. Small Axe 1 March 2003; 7 (1): 172–176. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/-7-1-172 Download citation f…
Writing the Autobiography of My Father
Book Review| March 01 2003 Writing the Autobiography of My Father Curdella Forbes Curdella Forbes Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Small Axe (2003) 7 (1): 172–176. https://doi.org/10.1215/-7-1-172 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Curdella Forbes; Writing the Autobiography of My Father. Small Axe 1 March 2003; 7 (1): 172–176. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/-7-1-172 Download citation f…
Representing the West in the Arabic Language: The Slave Narrative of Omar Ibn Said
The autobiography of the West African slave Omar ibn Said is the earliest piece of extant Arabic writing on American soil. Omar Ibn Said was captured as a slave and arrived in the USA in 1807. About twenty-five years after his arrival, he was commissioned to write an autobiography in the Arabic language, which he had studied for religious purposes in his native land. Unlike most slave narratives that have come to light, Ibn Said's is remarkable i…
From Nation to Diaspora: Samuel Selvon, George Lamming And the Cultural Performance of Gender
This book is a discussion of gender in West Indian culture. It undertakes the discussion through a revisionary reading of gender in selected novels written by Samuel Selvon and George Lamming from the 1950s to the 1970s. This was a period in which nationalism in the West Indies (anglophone Caribbean) reached its highest level of consolidation
Fracturing Subjectivities: International Space and the Discourse of Individualism in Colin Channer's Waiting in Vain and Jamaica Kincaid's Mr. Potter
This article addresses a concept of individualism that has emerged in some contemporary Caribbean fictions. I examine the evidence of this in a general way and then with reference to Jamaica Kincaid's Mr. Potter and Colin Channer's Waiting in Vain. I suggest that their individualism, though seemingly anomalous to diasporan thought, is in fact an “uncanny” product of the diasporan search for connections across borders
Between Plot and Plantation, Trespass and Transgression: Caribbean Migratory Disobedience in Fiction and Internet Traffic
Curdella Forbes deploys a complex of historically marked territorial metaphors- plot , plantation , squatting , trespass , and transgression -to read two apparently different texts, Maryse Conde's quasi-tragic 1976 novel Heremakhonon , which is set on the African continent, and a hilarious e-mail (which Forbes has titled "Puncie") circulated on the Internet. Arguing that these diachronous texts exemplify a culture of ideological disobedience that…
Caribbean Women Writing: Social Media, Spirituality and the Arts of Solitude in Edwidge Danticat's Haiti
(2014). Caribbean Women Writing: Social Media, Spirituality and the Arts of Solitude in Edwidge Danticat's Haiti. Caribbean Quarterly: Vol. 60, Memory, Reconciliation, Freedom, pp. 1-22
Bodies of Horror in Marlon James's The Book of Night Women and Clovis Brown's Cartoons
This examination of Marlon James's novel The Book of Night Women and a selection of Clovis Brown's newspaper cartoons posits these Jamaican-authored works as texts that instantiate a uniquely Caribbean aesthetics of horror in their response to historical and contemporary events. Both artists excavate genealogies of horror at the root of Caribbean identity discourse, tracing this through sexual histories linked, respectively, to femaleness and mal…
Beyond History: Rise of a New World
Writing in Culture and Imperialism in 1993, fifteen years after Orientalism, the book widely seen as having launched the practice of postcolonial theory, Edward Said situates Caribbean literature and ideas within his later thought on European empire and colonialism in the world beyond the Middle East [...]
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