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High Time to Break Up the Boys’ Club: The Gendered Politics of Spoken Word and Open Mic Spaces in Trinidad and Tobago

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SKU: cje-43-1-7

The increased visibility of spoken word in media, public campaigns, and literary festivals demands critical attention to the social organisation of the art form, movement, and space. This paper explores the gendered politics of spoken word and open mic spaces in Trinidad and Tobago since 2000. Based on semi-structured interviews with spoken word poets and open mic organisers, this article discusses the unequal gender power relations between male and female spoken word poets in open mic events.

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Beyond Borders: Cross-Culturalism and the Caribbean Canon edited by Jennifer Rahim and Barbara Lalla. Kingston, Jamaica: The University of the West Indies Press, 2009

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SKU: JEDIC-11-2-7

The St. Augustine campus of the University of the West Indies (UWI) has recently published several well regarded collections of conference papers which reflect new and emerging positions in literary and cultural criticism.

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Accessing Caribbean Literature through Immersion Experiences: Approaches to Teaching and Interpreting Walcott’s Omeros and Other Selected Works

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SKU: CJE-008

Caribbean literature relies on the reader's capacity to identify elements of the textual landscape and interpret them within appropriate environmental, cultural and historical contexts. The pedagogical approaches discussed in this paper are taken from The Island School's [Bahamas] Literature of the Sea course which features an intensive study of St Lucian poet Derek Walcott's epic Omeros. Curriculum is designed to help students access these elements of the text through observation and direct interaction.

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