The PSA Newsletter #33, “The Decolonial Caribbean”, challenges colonial mindsets, past and ongoing, as well as bringing to the fore Caribbean indigenous and marginalized groups’ ways of being. As always, we hope to foster informed, wide-ranging, and respectful debates on the topic on focus, and more in general in the field of postcolonial studies, by sharing original contribution, book reviews, and conference reports by colleagues from across the world.
The Newsletter opens with one original contribution by Clément Laurelli, who discusses
the essay Faire-Pays: Éloge de la responsabilisation by Martinican poet and philosopher
Patrick Chamoiseau. Presenting the essay as a “relational-manifesto”, Laurelli engages with
political, social, cultural and ecocritical questions, foregrounding Chamoiseau’s politics of
“responsabilisation” as a crucial tool to dismantle (neo-)colonial schemas in the French speaking Caribbean.
Next, readers can find three book reviews: Amira Farhani’s book review of Dystopia in
Arabic Speculative Fiction: A Poetics of Distress by Wessam Elmeligi (2024), Ghulam
Yaseen’s book review of The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis by Amitav
Ghosh (2021), and Vivienne Tailor’s book review of Psychiatric Contours: New African
Histories of Madness edited by Nancy Rose Hunt and Hubertus Büschel (2021). This issue
also features two conference reports: Bárbara Arizti and Silvia Martínez-Falquina’s
report on the 19th International Conference on Contemporary Narratives in English — “The
Relational Turn in the Literary Anglosphere: Writing Connection and Interdependence”, and
Azza Harras’s report on the Canadian Association for Postcolonial Studies (CAPS)’s 2025
Conference: “Rekindling Collaboration, Reimagining Futures”.
The final section of the Newsletter includes information about the call for the next issue and
useful contacts.
Happy reading, and best wishes,
Francesca and Jennifer
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