Literary Histories of the Early Anglophone Caribbean Islands in the Stream

“Any scholar interested in the literature of the Anglophone Caribbean would do well to consult it, as would those studying the evolution of literature and book production within the British Empire.” (Sam Clark, Modern Language Review, Vol. 115, January, 2020)

Nicole N. Aljoe is Associate Professor of English and African American Studies at Northeastern University, USA. She is co-director of The Early Caribbean Digital Archive and editor of Caribbeana: The Journal of the Early Caribbean Society. Author of Creole Testimonies: Slave Narratives from the British West Indies, 1709-1836 (Palgrave, 2012), she also co-edited Journeys of the Slave Narrative in the Early Americas (2014).

Brycchan Carey is Professor of English at Northumbria University, UK. He is the author of  British Abolitionism and the Rhetoric of Sensibility: Writing, Sentiment, and Slavery, 1760–1807  (Palgrave, 2005) and  From Peace to Freedom: Quaker Rhetoric and the Birth of American Antislavery, 1658–1761  (2012). His edition of Olaudah Equiano’s  Interesting Narrative  was published in 2018.

Thomas W. Krise is President Emeritus and Professor of English at Pacific Lutheran Universityin Tacoma, Washington, USA.  A former president of the Early Caribbean Society and the Society of Early Americanists, he is the editor of Caribbeana: An Anthology of English Literature of the West Indies, 1657-1777  (1999).