2019

Created with the support of the Green Family Foundation and the FIU Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center, ReadCaribbean is a series of readings, discussions, writing workshops, and more highlighting the vibrant and diverse literary culture of the Caribbean. The Miami Book Fair program covers a multiplicity of topics, ranging from mythos and futurism, where historical and generational implications can be viewed through the looking glass, to the unpacking of the current climate through the lens of the diaspora's intersectional identities.

Those currently in the Caribbean and from the diaspora charter a course of conversation and allow the rhetoric itself to take shape and mold the speakers, just as much as the listeners. Panelists enable “a broader Caribbean literary pantheon,” upon which time, territorial boundaries, identities, religions, mother tongues, and autonomy are discussed concerning both the individual and the collective. The Nation is also addressed as they discuss occupation versus liberation, the effects of sovereignty, and breaking from the shackles of historical subjugation.

ReadCaribbean exemplifies that aesthetic is not only materialistic, but rather a complex and fluid consciousness that “exerts emotional, cultural, spiritual, and imaginative influences both on the individual and collective consciousness."

The Panel topics and speakers are included below:

Saturday November 23, 2019

CARIBBEAN MYTH, MYTHOLOGY, AND SCIENCE FICTION at 11 AM
Imam Baksh (Guyana), Ann Dávila Cardinal (Puerto-Rico), Karen Lorde (Barbados), and Breanne McIvor (Trinidad)
Moderated by: Eddy Edwards (Riddims)

CARIBBEAN WRITERS: RACE, GENDER, AND REPRESENTATION at 1 PM
Edwidge Danticat (Haiti), Kevin Adonis Browne (Trinidad), Candice Carty-Williams (Jamaica), and Jaquira Diaz (Puerto-Rico)
Moderated by M.J. Fievre (Haiti)

CARIBBEAN JOURNEYS THROUGH TIME AND SPACE at 3 PM
David Chariandy (Trinidad/Toronto), Sara Collins (Jamaica/London), Angie Cruz (Dominican Republic/New York), and Uva de Aragón (Cuba/Miami)

Sunday November 24, 2019

HAITIAN DRAMA IN ITS DEATH THROES | TEYAT AYISYEN AN AGONI at 11 AM
Paula Clermont Pean, Menes Dejoie, Bob Lapierre, and Frantz Kiki Wainwright

IS HAITI A NATION STATE? | ÈSKE AYITI SE YON ETA-NASYON? At 1 PM
Victor Benoit, Christophe Charles, and Alin Louis Hall
Moderated by: Pierre Gerson Joseph (WSRF)

CARIBBEAN VOICES: RISING TIDES | VOIX CARIBÉENES: MARÉES MONTANTES at 3 PM
Ernest Pepin, Dominique Lancastre, Yamile Stitt, and Lyonel Trouillot
Moderated by Jean-Jacques Garnier

 

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