Edinburgh Review 123
Caribbean Logic
The title of this issue is taken from Kei Miller’s essay, ‘The Texture of fiction’, in which he says, ‘sometimes Caribbean logic is its own’. Alongside poetry and prose from leading Caribbean writers, thought-provoking articles on film, Cuba, and the Scots-Caribbean relationship, plus ‘Idrens and Idols: Images of Self-identity in Jamaica’ - photographs by Opal Palmer Adisa.
FICTION
Concerning Zion and the Higherstanding of Maths
Marcia Douglas
Her Own Woman
Opal Palmer Adisa
Daughter and his Housekeeper
Joan Anim-Addo
A Letter To My Children
Jacqueline Bishop
POETRY
Grace Nichols
Michelle Anne Hubbard
Velma Pollard
Fred D’Aguiar
John Agard
Nancy Anne Miller
Claire Askew
ARTICLES
The Texture of Fiction
Kei Miller
Identity and Exile in the Writing of Cristina Garcia
Faith Pullin
The Kilted Planter:
Scottish–Caribbean Relations and the Literary Imagination
Carla Sassi
Ker in the Caribbean
Hannah Adcock
The Cost of Freedom
Will Brady
Cuban Cinema in 1990: Discovering a Feminist Discourse Within the Male Gaze
Brígida Pastor
PHOTOGRAPHS
Opal Palmer Adisa
REVIEWS
Hannah Adcock
Jenni Calder
Bernard Crick
Anna Crowe
Peter Garside
Alasdair Gillon
Andy Gloege
Aaron Kelly
Stephen Lackaye
Michael Lister
Willy Maley
Lauren Elizabeth Pope
Tessa Ransford
Karina Williamson
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