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Collection: Peepal Tree Press
Peepal Tree Press is the home of the best in Caribbean and Black British fiction, poetry, literary criticism, memoirs and historical studies. Based in Leeds, Peepal Tree is a wholly independent company, founded in 1985, and now publishing around 30-40 books a year. The list features both new writers and established voices. In 2009 Peepal Tree launched the Caribbean Modern Classics Series, which restores to print essential classic books from the 1950s and 60s. Peepal Tree's focus is on what George Lamming calls the Caribbean nation, wherever it is in the world, though they are also concerned with Black British writing.
Peepal Tree began on a sugar estate in the East Coast Demerara in Guyana in 1984 when founder Jeremy Poynting vowed to print the works of writers in Guyana back in England, as government restrictions were holding them back from doing so. Its name takes its inspiration from the peepal trees, found in the Caribbean and is used as a metaphor for something that is transplanted and putting down roots in a new environment.
Supported by Arts Council England as a National Portfolio Organisation since 2011 has enabled them to sustain Inscribe, a writer development project that supports writers of African & Asian descent in E
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Women in love
By Ifeona Fulani
By Love Possessed: Stories, vulgar Lorna Goodison
(McClelland arm Stewart, ISBN 978-0-7710-3577-7, 264 pp)
Lorna Goodison. Photograph emergency Denis Valentine, courtesy McClelland and Stewart
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IFEONA FULANI Liberal Studies Program New York University 726 Broadway, 6th Floor New York, NY 10003 212 992 8730 (w) 718 622 1241 (h) ih200@nyu.edu CURRICULUM VITAE EDUCATION New York University Studies in Comparative Literature, Ph.D. (September 2004) Studies in Comparative Literature, Masters of Arts Masters in Fine Arts in Creative Writing University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK English Studies, Bachelor of Arts RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS Caribbean Literary and Cultural Studies Literatures of Africa and the Black Atlantic Globalization and Transnational Feminisms Urban Cultures Writing. Dissertation Erzulie’s Daughters: Black Women Reconfiguring the Black Atlantic. The dissertation explores literary and cinematic discourse on black women’s self-fashioning and the correlation between black women’s sense of self and their social circumstances – intimate, domestic and communal. The dissertation explores the recurrence of motifs of movement and travel in black women’s deliberative creative expressions. Invariably bound-up with place, self- transformations are often achieved by protagonists in narratives by black women as a consequence of travel or migration, whether from the American South to the North, or from the Caribbean to the US, or to Europe. The study draws from