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Goodbye Bay is simply one of the very best Caribbean novels to have been written, and not just in recent years. The perfect summer read, its seamless mix of sharply observed realism, poetic intensity and warm humour tells a gripping story with room for surprise, humour, tragedy and redemption.

Jennifer Rahim explores the power of the imagination to confront the restrictions of the year of the pandemic through reflections on history and the capacity of language to give immediacy and presence to absent place. Rahim is a former winner of the Casa de las Americas Prize, and the OCM Prize for Caribbean Literature.

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Short stories set across 24 hours during the 2011 state of emergency in Trinidad.

Updates and furthers the debates on the life and work of an internationally acclaimed writer, Nobel laureate and native son of Trinidad and Tobago. The essays in this collection are organised into three sections that represent a compression of the multifaceted range of V.S. Naipaul's creative concerns, thematic explorations, even obsessions, and philosophical persuasions.

Engaging with a broad range of human experience and concerns, Redemption Rain invites the reader into its profound epiphanies through patient revisitation and introspection. Rahim's voice weaves the explosive power of her lively Trinidadian Creole with the searching intensity of one given to appreciating memory's redemptive light. This is a book about the necessary and the unexpected, about costly arrival in the sacred spaces of realization an...

Deftly navigating between the present and the past, this collection of bittersweet short stories explores the tensions between image and reality in contemporay Trinidad, discovering a land that is, for the author, as imperfect as it is "home." Tales set in the present day show the traditional, communal world in retreat before the forces of local and global capitalism, as when a local fisherman challenges a segregationist club and pays with his...

Offers a forum for contemporary debates on Caribbean culture and its evolution. This book focuses on contemporary issues in Caribbean cultural studies. It explores cross-cultural themes and issues across a range of disciplines that include literature, language, education, history and popular culture.

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Drawing on a powerful sense of Trinidadian history and moving seamlessly between matters of family and matters of country, Jennifer Rahim's confessional and sensitive poems explore the threats and realities of fragmentation--of psyche's, of family, and of a nation. With a balance of personal trauma, misery, and death with the cool, reflective nature of poetry, these pieces touch on topics such as family relationships and secrets, gender, abuse...