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Greetings! Bonjou ak bonswa tout moun! We are delighted to close our spring season with another coup de cœur of Caribbean speculative fiction. This time, we’ll be hosting the Grenadian writer, poet, and novelist Merle Collins to discuss her novel The Colour of Forgetting, which was translated into French as La Couleur de l’oubli byContinue reading “April 16, 2025: A roundtable with Merle Collins”

Bonne année tout le monde! Happy 2025! We cannot think of a better way to start the year than by looking ahead with one of the most compelling young authors of the French Antilles. Michael Roch has been quite busy, collaboratively theorizing a new Caribbean Afrofuturism, Afrofuturisme 3.0, along with Nadia Chonville (Mon coeur batContinue reading “January 27, 2025: A roundtable with Michael Roch”

In case we hadn’t made it abundantly clear, we like and love the texts and authors with whom we’ve been in conversation over the years. We believe that what they have to say not only offers insight into Caribbean aliveness but also exceeds regional bounds, venturing into all realms of existence. We’ve been admiring GuadeloupeanContinue reading “October 23, 2024: A roundtable with Gisèle Pineau”

Bienveni, bel bonjou, welcome tout moun! We hope you have all enjoyed a sweet summer! We at Kwazman Vwa certainly have, but we are also very much looking forward to being back in community with each other and with you all. Our first guest this season is scholar, poet, author, teacher, activist, Black feminist loveContinue reading “September 10, 2024: A roundtable with Alexis Pauline Gumbs”

Kwazman Vwa is looking forward to being in conversation with Chris T. Bonner, who is Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University, and who very recently published Cold War Negritude, Form and Alignment in French Caribbean Literature, with Liverpool University Press. His monograph is the first book-length study of francophone Caribbean literature as it unfolded duringContinue reading “April 24, 2024: A Roundtable discussion with Chris T. Bonner”

Kwazman Vwa is proud and (frankly) elated to present the first roundtable for one of its members, our very own Lucy Swanson. Lucy is assistant professor of French Studies at the University of Arizona, a co-founder of Kwazman Vwa, and most importantly here, the author of The Zombie in Contemporary French Caribbean Fiction, published inContinue reading “March 25, 2024: A Roundtable discussion with kwazman vwa’s Lucy Swanson”

The Kwazman Vwa collective has been buzzing about Grace Sanders Johnson’s recent monograph, White Gloves, Black Nation: Women, Citizenship, and Political Wayfaring in Haiti (published with University of Carolina Press in 2023) — and we’re not the only ones: the book has already garnered the 2023 Haitian Studies Association Book Prize. Following the transatlantic trajectoriesContinue reading “February 28, 2024: A Roundtable discussion with Grace Sanders Johnson”

Bònn ane, bonne année, happy new year! We are delighted to kick things off with a roundtable with Tegan Zimmerman on her monograph, Matria Redux. Noting that psychoanalysis tends to ignore racial politics and that postcolonial studies do not systematically account for gender, Zimmerman brings these analytics in conversation and creates a new conceptual apparatusContinue reading “January 19, 2024: A Roundtable discussion with Tegan Zimmerman”

The Kwazman Vwa team will be welcoming novelist Estelle-Sarah Bulle and photographer Sylvain Duffard to discuss their haunting collaboration in Guadeloupe, paysages intranquilles (Éditions Long Cours, 2022). Duffard’s photographs, accompanied by Bulle’s prose, offer a meditation on postcolonial time and duration, as perceived in the carefully documented conversation between landscapes and humans. In these images,Continue reading “December 5, 2023: Conversation with Estelle-Sarah Bulle and Sylvain Duffard”