Curdella Forbes

Curdella Forbes is a Jamaican academic and critically acclaimed author – winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Fiction for A Tall History of Sugar.

Life and career
Forbes has worked as the professor of Caribbean literature at Howard University since 2004 after working at the University of the West Indies, Mona, which was where she also got her doctorate in 2000. She has also been writer in residence at University of the West Indies, Mona.

Novels

 * A Tall History of Sugar (2019)
 * Ghosts (2014)
 * A Permanent Freedom (2008)
 * Flying with Icarus (2003)
 * Songs Of Silence (2002)

Non-fiction

 * Through the lens of gender : a revisionary reading of the novels of Samuel Selvon and George Lamming (2000)
 * Shakespeare, other Shakespeares and West Indian popular culture : a reading of the erotics of errantry and rebellion in 'Troilus and Cressida (2001)
 * Fracturing subjectivities : international space and the discourse of individualism in Colin Channer's 'Waiting in vain' and Jamaica Kincaid's 'Mr. Potter (2008)
 * Between plot and plantation, trespass and transgression : Caribbean migratory disobedience in fiction and Internet traffic (2012)
 * The end of nationalism? : performing the question in Benítez-Rojo's 'The repeating island' and Glissant's 'Poetics of relation'  (2002)
 * "Trespassers will be persecuted" : reading migratory subjectivities in Maryse Condé's 'Heremakhonon' and perambulatory chain emails  (2010)
 * Selling that Caribbean woman down the river : diasporic travel narratives and the global economy (2005)
 * Tropes of the carnivalesque : hermaphroditic gender as identity in slave society and in West Indian fictions (1999)
 * Revisiting Samuel Selvon's trilogy of exile : implications for gender consciousness and gender relations in Caribbean culture  (1997)