Curdella Forbes

Jamaican academic and writer

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

Life and career

Forbes has worked as the professor of Caribbean literature at Howard University since 2004 after working at the University of the West Indies, Mona, which was where she also got 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

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

Non-fiction

• 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)
• Fracturing subjectivities : international space and the discourse of individualism in Colin Channer's 'Waiting in vain' and Jamaica Kincaid's 'Mr. Potter (2008)
• Between plot and plantation, trespass and transgression : Caribbean migratory disobedience in fiction and Internet traffic (2012)
• The end of nationalism? : performing the question in Benítez-Rojo's 'The repeating island' and Glissant's 'Poetics of relation' (2002)
• "Trespassers will be persecuted" : reading migratory subjectivities in Maryse Condé's 'Heremakhonon' and perambulatory chain emails (2010)
• Selling that Caribbean woman down the river : diasporic travel narratives and the global economy (2005)
• Tropes of the carnivalesque : hermaphroditic gender as identity in slave society and in West Indian fictions (1999)
• Revisiting Samuel Selvon's trilogy of exile : implications for gender consciousness and gender relations in Caribbean culture (1997)

References

1. "Curdella Forbes Books - Biography and List of Works - Author of 'A Permanent Freedom'". www.biblio.com.
2. "HU | COAS | Department of English". english.coas.howard.edu. Archived from the original on 2018-10-30. Retrieved 2018-10-30.
3. "Curdella Forbes | Peepal Tree Press". www.peepaltreepress.com.
4. "Fiction Book Review: Ghosts by Curdella Forbes. Peepal Tree (IPG, dist.), $19.95 trade paper (179p) ISBN 978-1-84523-200-9". PublishersWeekly.com.
5. "Curdella Forbes - Caribbean SF". Caribbean SF. Archived from the original on 2019-07-19. Retrieved 2018-10-30.
6. "Department of Literatures to host writing workshop". jamaica-gleaner.com.
7. ""A Community of the Self" | Small Axe Project". smallaxe.net.
8. Elizabeth Brown-Guillory (2006). Middle Passages and the Healing Place of History: Migration and Identity in Black Women's Literature. Ohio State University Press. pp. 117–. ISBN 978-0-8142-1038-3.

Further reading

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