Island Studies

  • Allegories of the Anthropocene

    Duke University Press, 2019

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  • Heliotropes: Solar Ecologies and Pacific Radiations

    Postcolonial Ecologies: Literatures of the Environment, Oxford UP, 2011. 235-253.

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  • Routes and Roots: Navigating the Caribbean and Pacific Island Literatures.

    University of Hawai`i Press, 2007.

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  • Toward a Critical Ocean Studies for the Anthropocene

    English Language Notes 57:1 (2019) 22-36. REPRINTED in Ginoza, Ayano, eds. The Challenges of Island Studies. Springer: 2020.

    REPRINTED in Reyman, Markus, et al., Oceans Rising, A Companion to Territorial Agency: Oceans in Transformation. Sternberg Press, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Academy, Berlin, Germany, 2021.

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  • The Sea is Rising: Visualising Climate Change in the Pacific Islands

    Meteorologies of Modernity: Weather and Climate Discourses in the Anthropocene. Eds. Sarah Fekadu, Hanna Strasse-Senol, and Tobias During. Munich: REAL: Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature, 2017. 237-253.

    REPRINTED in Pacific Dynamics: Journal of Interdisciplinary Research, Special issue on Oceanic Memory. 2:2 (November 2018).

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  • Revisiting Tidalectics: Irma/José/Maria

    In Tidalectics: Imagining an Oceanic Worldview through Art and Science, edited Stefanie Hessler. Boston: MIT Press, 2018. 93-101.

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  • Submarine Futures of the Anthropocene

    Special issue of Comparative Literature Journal, “Oceanic Routes Forum.” 69.1. 2017. 32-44.

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  • The Oceanic Turn: Submarine Futures of the Anthropocene

    Humanities for the Environment: Forging New Constellations of Practice. Eds. Joni Adamson and Michael Davis. London and New York: Routledge, 2017. 242-258.

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  • Ecocriticism (is this the right tittle?)

    3,000-word entry for Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies. Ed. Sangeeta Ray and Henry Schwartz. Malden, MA. 2016.

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  • Ordinary Futures: Interspecies Worldings in the Anthropocene

    in Global Ecologies & the Environmental Humanities: Postcolonial Approaches. Eds DeLoughrey, Didur, Carrigan. Routledge, 2015. 352-372. Introduction.

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  • Introduction: Gender and Sexual Politics in the Pacific Islands: A Call for Critical Militarisation Studies

    Special issue of Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific with Victor Bascara & Keith L. Camacho. 37. March 2015.

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  • Introduction: A Postcolonial Environmental Humanities

    Co-written with Jill Didur and Anthony Carrigan. Global Ecologies and the Environmental Humanities: Postcolonial Approaches. Routledge, 2015. 1-32.

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  • Introduction: Toward an Aesthetics of the Earth

    with George Handley. Postcolonial Ecologies: Literature of the Environment, Oxford UP, 2011. pp 3-39.

    REPRINTED Key Readings in Ecocriticism eds., Serena Chou and Robin Tsai (Bookman, Taiwan), 2015.

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  • Satellite Planetarity and the Ends of the Earth

    Public Culture. Special issue on Visualizing the Environment. 26.2, Spring 2014. 257-280.

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  • Postcolonialism

    7,000-word entry for The Oxford Companion to Ecocriticism. Ed. Greg Garrard. 2014. 320-340.

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  • The Myth of Isolates: Ecosystem Ecologies in the Nuclear Pacific

    Special Island Studies issue of Cultural Geographies edited by Godfrey Baldacchino and Erik Clark. 20:2 (2013). 167-184.

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  • Introduction: Of Oceans and Islands

    Special issue of New Literatures Review 47 (Australia) on postcolonial island literature. 2011. 1-16.

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  • On Kala Pani and Transoceanic Fluids

    Special postcolonial island issue of New Literatures Review 47, 2011. 71-92.

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  • Island Writing, Creole Cultures

    Cambridge History of Postcolonial Literature. Ed. Ato Quayson. Cambridge University Press, 2011. 802-832.

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  • Ecocriticism: The Politics of Place

    Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean Literature. Eds Alison Donnell and Michael Bucknor. 2011. 265-275.

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  • Yam, Roots and Rot: Allegories of the Provision Grounds

    Small Axe 34 (March 2011): 58-75.

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  • Global Warming: Nuclear Fallout as Climate Change

    Dreadlocks in Oceania (Fiji) 6/7: Special Issue: Oceans, Islands, and Skies: Proceedings of the Oceanic Conference on Creativity and Climate Change. (2010-2011). 127-142.

  • Heavy Waters: Waste and Atlantic Modernity

    Special feature on Oceanic Studies. PMLA (125.3). May 2010, 703-12.

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  • Radiation Ecologies and the Wars of Light

    Modern Fiction Studies.55.3 (2009) 468-495.

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  • Provision Grounds and Cultural Roots: Towards Ontological Sovereignty

    The Caribbean Woman Writer as Scholar. Ed Carole Boyce Davies. FL: Caribbean Studies Press. 2009. Pp 205-224.

  • Solar Metaphors: ‘No Ordinary Sun

    Ka Mate Ka Ora: A New Zealand Journal of Poetry and Poetics. 6 (September 2008):

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  • Globalizing the Routes of Breadfruit and Other Bounties

    Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History. 8:3 (Winter 2008):

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  • Routes and Roots: Tidalectics in Caribbean Literature

    In Caribbean Culture: Soundings on Kamau Brathwaite. Ed. Annie Paul. Kingston: U of West Indies Press, 2006. 163-175.

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  • Island Ecologies and Caribbean Literatures

    TESG: Journal of Economic and Social Geography Special issue on Island Studies, Ed. Godfrey Baldacchino. 95:3 (2004): 298-310.

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  • Introduction: Caribbean Literature and the Environment

    with Renée Gosson and George Handley. Caribbean Literature and the Environment: Between Nature and Culture. U of Virginia Press, 2005. 1-30.

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  • White Fathers, Brown Daughters: The Frisbie Family Romance and the American Pacific

    Literature and Racial Ambiguity. Eds. Teresa Hubel and Neil Brooks. Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi Press, 2002. 157-186.

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  • The litany of islands, The rosary of archipelagoes:’ Caribbean and Pacific Heterotopias

    Ariel Special Issue: Small Cultures: The Literature of Micro-States. Eds. Shirley Geok-Lin Lim and Elaine Ho. 32:1 (2001): 21-51.

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  • Some Pitfalls of Caribbean Regionalism: Colonial Roots and Migratory Routes

    Journal of Caribbean Literatures 3:1 (Fall 2000): 51-71.

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  • The Spiral Temporalities of Patricia Grace's Potiki

    Ariel 30(1): (January 1999): 59-83.

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  • Gendering the Voyage: Trespassing the (Black) Atlantic and Caribbean

    Thamyris: Caribbean Women's Writing/Imagining Caribbean Space Ed. Carole Boyce Davies. 5:2 (1998): 205-231.

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  • Tidalectics: Charting the Space/Time of Caribbean Waters

    SPAN: Journal of the South Pacific Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies 47 (October 1998): 18-38.

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  • The Fragmented Archipelago: Regional Disjunctions in the Anglophone Caribbean

    MLA Convention. Toronto, Ontario. December 27-30, 1997.

  • Migrations in the Archipelagoes: The Black Atlantic in Oceania

    Multi-Ethnic Literatures Across the Americas and the Pacific Conference. MELUS. Honolulu, HI. April 18-20, 1997.