Tag Archives: Caribbean Spaces

March 13, 2014

Q&A with Caribbean Spaces author Carole Boyce Davies

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Carole Boyce Davies is a professor of Africana studies and English at Cornell University. She is the editor of the three-volume Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora: Origins, Experiences, and Culture and several other collections in African and Caribbean studies and black women’s studies internationally. … Continue reading →

February 25, 2014

Caribbean Spaces up for OCM Bocas Prize

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Carole Boyce-Davies has been named to the long list for the 2014 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. Caribbean Spaces: Escapes from Twilight Zones is one of three books nominated in the Non-Fiction category. The Prize covers poetry, fiction, and … Continue reading →

January 13, 2014

Carole Boyce Davies finds a ‘missed opportunity’ in 12 Years a Slave

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Carole Boyce Davies, author of Caribbean Spaces: Escapes from Twilight Zones has written about some of differences between the film 12 Years a Slave and the 1854 memoir penned by Solomon Northrup. In particular Boyce Davies feels the film underplays … Continue reading →

January 8, 2014

Caribbean Spaces makes Best of 2013 for The Public Archive

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Caribbean Spaces: Escapes from Twilight Zones by Carole Boyce Davies was featured on The Public Archive’s “best of 2013” list of recent work from the fields of Black and Africana Studies. From the listing: “Caribbean Spaces heralds a commitment to Black freedom – both … Continue reading →