25th Anniversary Conference on West Indian Literature
2– 4, March, 2006

For twenty-five years, the West Indian Literature Conference has gathered a range of scholars and writers to discuss the region’s literary and cultural expressions. Our original focus on Anglophone literature has expanded to include the wider Caribbean and its diasporas, as well as other forms of cultural expression like music, film, and digital technology.

This broadening signals the development of urgent debates - on the significance of terms like Caribbean versus West Indian, on what defines a Caribbean or national text or a Caribbean writer, on what constitutes the canon or marks the parameters of literary criticism and theory, on who is the Caribbean subject and indeed, where is the Caribbean. Such persistent questions signal the demand for on-going review of the criteria and categories by which the region’s literatures and cultures are understood and theorized.

The 25th Annual Conference on West Indian Literature focuses on the theme “Where is Here: Remapping the Caribbean.”