![]() ![]() ![]() Founded by Charlotte Rogers (UVA) and Kaiama Glover (Barnard) in 2017, the network brings together junior and senior Caribbean scholars from Africana studies, American studies, architecture, English, history, Spanish, and religious studies, among others. ![]() In this issue of sx salon, the discussion of the novel by three University of Virginia colleagues offers a glimpse of what the Greater Caribbean Studies Network at UVA has afforded us. The novel, which was published in English translation as Tentacle in 2018, is at once a work of dystopic science fiction (set in a future Dominican Republic where hi-tech surveillance and machinery allow the state to vaporize plague-ridden Haitians) climate fiction, or cli-fi (an already fatal 2024 tsunami washes biological weapons into the Caribbean Sea) speculative time travel (contact with a Santería deity sends characters back in time) and queer fiction (opening with a gender-transition surgery) as well as a meditation on contemporaneity in art, colonial history, race in the DR, and more. Rita Indiana’s La mucama de Omicunlé ( Omicunlé’s Maid), the first Spanish-language book to win the grand prize at the Caribbean Writer’s Association Awards (in 2017), is one such work. It is a treat when a new work of literature emerges that sparks enthusiasm in and critical engagement by scholars from multiple disciplines. ![]()
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On a whim, and with an inheritance from his mother, Charlie purchases a top-of-the-range, remarkably lifelike android called, somewhat unsurprisingly, Adam. ![]() He’s bourgeois, with radical leanings, and an expert in electronics (which allows much subtle humour throughout), but has no real purpose in his life. Driverless cars, the internet, mobile phones: it’s all here, but it’s the 1980s.Ĭharlie might have stumbled in from a JG Ballard novel. Crucially, Alan Turing has survived, becoming the father of a new leap into the technological future. “Any part of it, or all of it, could be otherwise.” The Falklands War has been lost, and Tony Benn is a Jeremy Corbyn-like figure, adored at mass rallies. “The present is the frailest of improbable constructs,” muses Charlie, the narrator. 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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I visited Button Lane a few weeks ago it’s my old primary school and a recipient of my book club. What effect has your book club had so far? Next year, Rashford will release his first children’s fiction book, The Breakfast Club Adventures, co-authored by Alex Falase-Koya. In June he launched the Marcus Rashford Book Club in conjunction with Magic Breakfast and Macmillan Children’s Books to encourage a lifelong love of reading and give free books to underprivileged children. One of five siblings raised by a single mother on minimum wage in Manchester, Rashford has become one of Britain’s leading campaigners against child poverty. M arcus Rashford, 24, plays football for England and Manchester United and is the author of this year’s bestselling children’s nonfiction book, You Are a Champion, written with the journalist Carl Anka to inspire young people to reach their full potential. ![]() |