Publications
Books and Edited Volumes
鈥� World Literature and Ecology: The Aesthetics of Commodity Frontiers, 1890-1945 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
鈥� The Caribbean Novel since 1945: Cultural Practice, Form, and the Nation-State (Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 2012)
鈥� Literary and Cultural Production, World-Ecology, and the Global Food System Co-edited with Chris Campbell and Kerstin Oloff (Palgrave, 2021)
鈥� The Caribbean: Aesthetics, World-Ecology, Politics. Co-edited with Chris Campbell and including co-written editors鈥� introduction. (Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 2016)
鈥� Special journal issue of Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 48.5 (2012) on Postcolonial Studies and World Literature, co-edited with James Graham and Sharae Deckard; includes co-written editors鈥� introduction
鈥� Perspectives on the 鈥極ther America鈥�: Comparative Approaches to Caribbean and Latin American Culture. Co-edited with Kerstin Oloff; includes co-written editors鈥� introduction. (New York: Rodopi, 2009)
Selected Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
鈥� 鈥淭he 鈥榗atastrophic consciousness of backwardness鈥�: Culture and Dependency Theory in Latin America and the Caribbean.鈥� New Formations 103 (2021): 103-33
鈥� 鈥溾�楾ime鈥檚 carcase鈥�: Waste, labour, and finance capital in the Atlantic world-ecology.鈥� Atlantic Studies 16.1 (2019): 72-89.
鈥� 鈥溾�業t鈥檚 the mass that counts鈥�: striking energies in working-class fiction.鈥� Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 53.3 (2017): 303-315
鈥� 鈥淏lack was never more beautiful鈥�: Ecology, Culture, and the Oil Boom in Trinidad,鈥� Journal of West Indian Literature 24.2 (2016): 27-45
鈥� 鈥淪trange Correspondences: Late Capitalism and Late Style in the Work of Wilson Harris and John Berger鈥�, in Ariel 47.1 (2016): 163-191
鈥� 鈥淭ime and Tidalectics Wait for No Nam: Catastrophe and Creativity in the Work of Kamau Brathwaite鈥�, Moving Worlds: A Journal of Transcultural Writings, 14.2 (2014): 108-22
鈥� 鈥淪pectres in the Forest: Gothic Form and World-Ecology in Edgar Mittelholzer鈥檚 My Bones and My Flute鈥�, in Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, 44 (18.2) (2014): 53-68
鈥� 鈥淭he 鈥榠mpossible quest for wholeness鈥�: Sugar, Cassava, and the Ecological Aesthetic in The Guyana Quartet鈥�, in Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 49.2 (2013): 148-60
鈥� 鈥淲orld-Economy, World-Ecology, World Literature鈥�, in Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism 16.1 Postcolonial/Global Ecologies (2012): 15-30***
鈥� 鈥溾�榃hen you take thing out the earth and you en鈥檛 put nothing back鈥�: Nature, Form and the Metabolic Rift in Jan Carew鈥檚 Black Midas鈥�, in The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 46.2 (2011): 237-55
鈥� 鈥淭he Unfinished Body: Narrative, Politics, and Global Community in Wilson Harris鈥檚 The Infinite Rehearsal鈥�, in Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 43.1 (2007): 18-31. Reprinted in: Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol. 297 (Gale/Cengage Learning, 2010)
Selected Articles in Books
鈥� 鈥淓nergy Regimes鈥� in Jennifer Wenzel et al., eds. Fueling Culture (U of Minnesota P, 2017).
鈥� 鈥淏elaboring Masculinity: Ecology, Work, and the Body in Michel Ponnamah鈥檚 D茅rive de Josaphat鈥� in Indo-Caribbean Feminist Thought (Palgrave Macmillan US, 2016). 283-300.
鈥� 鈥淐ommodity Frontiers, Caribbean Natures, and the Aesthetics of Ecological Revolution鈥� in John Parham and Louise Westling, eds. A Global History of Literature and the Environment (Cambridge University Press, 2016)
鈥� 鈥淪tyle as Habitus: World Literature, Decolonization, and Caribbean Voices鈥�, in Bourdieu and Postcolonial Studies, ed. Raphael Dalleo (Liverpool UP, 2016): 119-36
鈥� 鈥淥il on Sugar: Commodity Frontiers and Peripheral Aesthetics鈥�, in Global Ecologies: Postcolonial Approaches to the Environmental Humanities, eds. Anthony Carrigan, Elizabeth DeLoughrey, and Jill Didur (Routledge, 2015): 268-85
鈥� 鈥淓ric Walrond and the Proletarian Arts Movement鈥� in Eric Walrond: The Critical Heritage, eds. Louis Parascandola and Carl Wade (University of the West Indies Press, 2012): 128-146
鈥� 鈥溾�楴ot woman enough everywhere鈥�: Gender, Nation, and Narration in the Work of Patrick Chamoiseau鈥� in The Cross-Dressed Caribbean: Writing, Politics, Sexualities, eds. Benedicte Ledent, Maria Cristina Fumagalli, and Roberto Del Valle Alcala (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012): 74-89
鈥� 鈥淭he Manioc and the Made-in-France: Reconsidering Creolization and Commodity Fetishism in Caribbean Literature and Theory鈥� in Breaking Ground: Readings in Caribbean History and Culture, ed. D.A. Dunkley (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2011)