Festschrift | Articles & Essays | Entries in Encyclopedias & Reference Works
Theses and Dissertations | Profiles | News | Reviews | Miscellaneous
Theses and Dissertations | Profiles | News | Reviews | Miscellaneous
Festschrift
- Shields, Tanya, & Isis Semaj-Hall (eds.), issue of Caribbean Quarterly (forthcoming).
Articles & Essays
- Anim-Addo, Joan, 'Woman-Centred Narratives at the Intersections of the Oral and Literary Traditions in the Short Stories of Merle Collins', Journal of the Short Story in English 26 (1996).
- Anim-Addo, Joan, 'The African-Caribbean Woman Writer's Project: Merle Collins and Alecia McKenzie'; in Co(n)texts: implicazioni testuali, ed. Carla Locatelli (Trento: Dipartimento di scienze filologiche e storiche, 2000), pp. 131-150.
- Anim-Addo, Joan, 'Writing for Listeners: Merle Collins's Angel', in In Praise of New Travelers: Reading Caribbean Migrant Women Writers, ed. Isabel Hoving (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001), pp. 122-155.
- Anim-Addo, Joan, Touching the Body: History, Language and African-Caribbean Women's Writing (London: Mango, 2007), passim.
- Bailey, Carol, '(Re)membering: The Power of Stories in The Colour of Forgetting and Unburnable', in her A Poetics of Performance: The Oral-Scribal Aesthetic in Anglophone Caribbean Fiction (Kingston: University of the West Indies Press, 2014).
- Campos, Sandra, 'Community and Continuity: Reading Merle Collins's The Colour of Forgetting', Macomère 5 (2002), pp. 114-121.
- Casado i Gual, Núria, 'The Past of Slavery Remembered and Recreated in Merle Collins' Rotten Pomerack', Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference of AEDEAN: Lleida. 17th-19th December 1998, ed. Pere Gallardo Torrano & Enric Llurda Giménez (Lleida: Universitat de Lleida, 2000), pp. 485-488.
- Company, Susana María, 'Boxeando con la historia: "Shadowboxing", un cuento de Merle Collins', in Multicultural Texts and Voices, ed. María Marta Michel (Salta, Argentina: Eucasa - Ediciones Universidad Carótica de Salta, 2019), pp. 37-44.
- Company, Susana María, María Marta Michel, & María Soledad Loutayf, 'Using Literature and Translation to Foster Intercultural Communicative Competence', Literature in ELT: Selected Papers from the 44th FAAPI Conference ed. Darío Luis Banegas, Melina Porto, Mario López-Barrios, & Florencia Perduca (Salta: Asociación Salteña de Profesores de Inglés - ASPI, 2019), pp. 54-63. Partly deals with the poem 'México - aunque no parezcamos' (from Lady in a Boat).
- Company, Susana María, María Marta Michel, & María Soledad Loutayf, 'Using Literature and Translation to Foster Intercultural Communicative Competence', Literature in ELT: Selected Papers from the 44th FAAPI Conference ed. Darío Luis Banegas, Melina Porto, Mario López-Barrios, & Florencia Perduca (Salta: Asociación Salteña de Profesores de Inglés - ASPI, 2019), pp. 54-63. Partly deals with the poem 'México - aunque no parezcamos' (from Lady in a Boat).
- Cooper, Carolyn, 'Grenadian Popular Culture and the Rhetoric of Revolution: Merle Collins' Angel', Caribbean Quarterly 41.2 (1995), pp. 57-70.
- Cooper, Carolyn,'"Sense Make befoh Book": Grenadian Popular Culture and the Rhetoric of Revolution in Merle Collins' Angel and The Colour of Forgetting', in Arms Akimbo: Africana Women in Contemporary Literature, ed. Janice Liddell & Yakini Belinda Kemp (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1999), pp. 176-188.
- deCaires Narain, Denise, 'Speaking and Performing the Creole Word: The Work of Valerie Bloom, Jean 'Binta' Breeze, Merle Collins and Marlene Nourbese Philip', in her Contemporary Caribbean Women's Poetry: Making Style (London: Routledge, 2002), pp. 89-147.
- Deckard, Sharae, 'Cacao and Cascadura: Energetic Consumption and Production in World-ecological Literature', Journal of Postcolonial Writing 53.3 (2017), pp. 342-354 (esp. pp. 352-253 on Angel).
- Deloughrey, Elizabeth, 'Island Writing, Creole Cultures', in The Cambridge History of Postcolonial Literature, Volume 2, ed. Ato Quayson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), pp. 802-832. See esp. p. 819 on Merle Collins's The Colour of Forgetting.
- Dilger, Gerhard, '"We Doin We Own Ting!": Revolution and Literature in Grenada', in Alternative Cultures in the Caribbean: First International Conference on the Society of Caribbean Research, Berlin 1988, ed. Thomas Bremer & Ulrich Fleischmann (Frankfurt am Main: Vervuert, 1993), pp. 217-244.
- Deckard, Sharae, 'Cacao and Cascadura: Energetic Consumption and Production in World-Ecological Literature', Journal of Postcolonial Writing 53.3 (2017), pp. 342-254. Partly deals with Angel.
- DelRosso, Jeana, 'Catholicism's Other(ed) Holy Trinity: Race, Class, and Gender in Black Catholic Girl School Narratives', NWSA Journal 12.1 (Spring 2000), pp. 24-43. Partly deals with Angel. Also published in The Catholic Church and Unruly Women Writers: Critical Essays, ed. Jeana DelRosso, Leigh Eicke, & Ana Kothe (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), pp. 191-206.
- Donnell, Alison, 'When Seeing Is Believing: Enduring Injustice in Merle Collins's The Colour of Forgetting', in Madness in Caribbean Literature: On the Edge, ed. Bénédicte Ledent, Evelyn O'Callaghan & Daria Tunca (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), pp. 161-179.
- Duckett, K. M. Estrella, D. López, 'The Literary Representation of a Creole: A Linguistic Analysis of Angel', La Torre: Revista de la Universidad de Puerto Rico 7.26 (2002), pp. 631-656.
- Garvey, Johanna X.K., 'A Dream Deferred? Languages and Spaces of Resistance in Caribbean Women's Fiction', in Black Liberation in the Americas, ed. Fritz Gysin and Christopher Mulvey (Hamburg: Lit Verlag, 2001), pp. 153-71. Deals with works by Dionne Brand, Michelle Cliff and Merle Collins.
- Hagimoto, Koichib, 'Female Voices in Revolution: Autobiography and Collective Memory in Assia Djebar's Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade and Merle Collins's Angel', Utah Foreign Language Review 20 (2012), pp. 39-55.
- Hoving, Isabel, 'Schrijven voor luisteraars: De cultuurkritische functie van oraliteit in twee romans van Brits-Caribische schrijfsters', Forum der Letteren: Tijdschrift voor Taal- en Letterkunde 32.4 (December 1991), pp. 281-91. Partly deals with Angel.
- Hoving, Isabel, 'Writing for Listeners: Merle Collins's Angel', in her In Praise of New Travelers: Reading Caribbean Migrant Women's Writing (Redwood City: Stanford UP, 2001), pp. 122-155.
- Kenyon, Olga, Writing Women: Contemporary Women Novelists (London: Pluto, 1991), passim.
- Lambert, Laurie R., 'Generational Ties, Revolutionary Binds: Family as Archive in the Writing of Merle Collins', Comrade Sister: Caribbean Feminist Revisions of the Grenada Revolution (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2020).
- Ligon, Alison, Traversing Caribbean Thresholds: Coming of Age Stories in Selected Works of Anglophone Fiction (New York: Peter Lang, 2009). Partly deals with Angel.
- Lima, Maria Helena, 'Revolutionary Developments: Michelle Cliff's No Telephone to Heaven and Merle Collins's Angel', Ariel 24.1 (January 1993), pp. 35-56.
- Lima, Maria Helena, 'Merle Collins's Angel of History', in Swinging Her Breasts at History: Language, Body and the Caribbean Women's Text, ed. M. Inghilleri (London: Mango, 2006).
- MacDonald, Geoffrey, 'Shadows Pass the Surface: Decolonial (Re)Configurations in Indigenous Presence in Merle Collins's The Colour of Forgetting', in Practices of Resistance in the Caribbean: Narratives, Aesthetics and Politics, ed. Wiebke Beushausen, Miriam Brandel, Joseph T. Farquharson, Marius Littschwager, Annika McPherson, & Julia Roth (Abingdon: Routledge, 2018), pp. 40-55.
- McGuirk, Bernard, '"Cultural studies" at the limits: the Body Politic of Border Poetry', Bulletin of Spanish Studies 82.3&4 (2005), pp. 403-426. Briefly discusses the poem 'No Dialects Please'.
- Meehan, Kevin, 'Imagining Revolutionary Communities: Narrative and Social Change in George Jackson's Soledad Brother, Jean-Bertrand Aristide's In the Parish of the Poor, and Merle Collins's Angel', In Process: A Graduate Student Journal of African-American and African Diasporan Literature and Culture 1 (1996), pp. 20-35.
- Meehan, Kevin, 'Romance and Revolution: Reading Women's Narratives of Caribbean Decolonization', Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 25.2 (Fall 2006), pp. 291-306. Partly deals with Angel.
- Meltzer, Susan, 'Decolonizing the Mind: Recent Grenadian Fiction', Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism 22 (2007), pp. 83-94. Partly deals with The Colour of Forgetting.
- Moralejo Gárate, Teresa, '"The Visit" de Merle Collins y "The Bed Sitting Room" de Maureen Ismay: dos aproximaciones al tema del desplazamiento en la literatura post-colonial', Lenguaje y textos 18 (2002), pp. 143-155. In Spanish.
- Nelson, John C., 'A "Parvenu Predator"? When the Kill Zone and the Contact Zone Collide on the Isle of Spice', in Caribbean Literary Encounters, ed. Shalini Puri & Lara Putnam (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), pp. 231-247.
- Puri, Shalini, 'Memory-Work, Field-Work: Reading Merle Collins and the Poetics of Place', in The Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean Literature, ed. Michael A. Bucknor & Alison Donnell (Abingon: Routledge), pp. 490-98.
- Puri, Shalini, The Grenada Revolution in the Caribbean Present: Operation Urgent Memory (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), passim. Engages with Collins's work throughout the book.
- Rojas Olaya, Alí Ramón, 'Pedagogía del Caribe: Lorna Goodison, Merle Collins y Cecil Gray', Revista de Pedagogía 37.101 (2016), pp. 233-239. In Spanish.
- Scafe, Suzanne, '"Versioning" The Revolution: Gender and Politics in Merle Collins's Angel, in Post-Colonial Literatures: Expanding the Canon, ed. Deborah L. Madsen (London: Pluto Press, 1999), pp 120-132.
- Scafe, Suzanne, 'What is to is/must is: Time and Memory in Merle Collins's The Colour of Forgetting', Caribbean Journal of Education 20.1 (1998), pp. 42-53.
- Scafe, Suzanne, 'Versioning the Revolution: Gender and Politics in Merle Collins's Angel', in Post-Colonial Literatures: Expanding the Canon ed. Deborah Madsen (London: Pluto, 1999), pp. 120-132.
- Scafe, Suzanne, 'The Caribbean', Journal of Commonwealth Literature 39.4 (2004), pp. 29-46. Includes a brief discussion of Lady in a Boat.
- Scott, Helen, 'The Spice Isle', in her Caribbean Women Writers and Globalization: Fictions of Independence (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006), pp. 127-155. Deals with Angel.
- Scott, David, 'Stranded in the Present: The Ruins of Time', in his Omens of Adversity: Tragedy, Time, Memory, Justice (Durham NC: Duke University Press, 2014), pp. 71-96. Deals with Angel and The Colour of Forgetting.
- Shemak, April 'Re/writing Reconciliation in Merle Collins's Angel', Caribbean Quarterly 60.1 (2014), pp. 42-60.
- Sigrist, Clare M., 'Maps of Intimate and Institutional Change in Merle Collins's Angel and Oonya Kempadoo's Tide Running', Arthurium 13.2 (2016), 16 pp.
- Steele, Susanna, & Joan Anim-Addo, 'New Encounters: Availability, Acceptability and Accessibility of New Literature from Caribbean Women', in Framing the Word: Gender and Genre in Caribbean Women's Writing, ed. Joan Anim-Addo (London: Whiting and Birch, 1996), pp. 96-102. Partly deals with Rain Darling.
- Tall, Asha, 'The Erotic Schemes of Angels: Love on the Line in Merle Collins's Novel Revisioning', Journal of West Indian Literature 27.1 (April 2019), pp. 50-69.
- Taylor, Patrick, 'Deconstruction of Revolution: Merle Collins's Angel', CLR James Journal 2.1 (Winter 1991), pp. 12-17.
- Timms, Emily, '"I Could Turn Viper Tomorrow': Challenging Reproductive Futurism in Merle Collins's The Colour of Forgetting (1995)', Essays and Studies (forthcoming in 2020).
- Wisker, Gina, 'Black British Women's Writing', in her Post Colonial and African American Women's Writing: A Critical Introduction (London: Palgrave, 2000), pp. 273-300.
- Woodcocke, Bruce, '"Long Memoried Women": Caribbean Women Poets', in Black Women's Writing, ed. Gina Wisker (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993), pp. 55-77.
Entries in Encyclopedias and Reference Works
- Bloom, Harold, 'Merle Collins', Caribbean Women Writers (Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 1997), pp. 45-57.
- Booker, Keith M., & Dubravka Juraga, 'Merle Collins: Angel (Grenada, 1987)', in their The Caribbean Novel in English: An Introduction (Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2001), pp. 172-178.
- Lima, Maria Helena, 'Collins, Merle', in The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction, vol. 3: World Fiction A-Z, ed Brian W. Shaffer (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley, 2010), 2 pp.
- MacDonald-Smythe, Antonia, 'Collins, Merle (1950 - )', in Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora: Origins, Experiences, and Culture, Volume 1 A-C, ed. Carole Boyce Davies (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC Clio, 2008), pp. 313-314.
- Prince, Tracy J., 'Collins, Merle', in Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture, ed. Alison Donnell (London: Routledge, 2001), p. 79.
- Saunders, Patricia Joan, ' Merle Collins (29 September 1950 - )', in Twentieth-century Caribbean and Black African Writers: Third series, ed. Bernth Lindfors & Reinhard Sander (Detroit: Gale, 1996), pp. 59-66.
- Scafe, Suzanne, 'Merle Collins', The Literary Encyclopedia, 25 January 2020.
- Woodard, Loretta G., 'Collins, Merle (1950 - )', in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature, Volume I, A-C, ed. Emmanuel S. Nelson (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2005), pp. 484-486.
Theses and Dissertations
- Anim-Addo, Joan Lilian, 'Breaking the Silence: First-Wave Anglophone African-Caribbean Women Novelists and Dynamics of History, Language and Publication', PhD thesis, Goldsmith College, University of London, UK, 2001.
- Ashworth, Rebecca,, 'Feeling Freedom: Reading Emotion in Anglophone African-Caribbean Women's Writing', PhD thesis, University of Reading, UK, 2011. Includes a chapter on Angel.
- Bailey, Carol, 'Performing Fiction: The Inward Turn of Postcolonial Discourse in Anglophone Caribbean Fiction', PhD thesis, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA, 2007. Includes a chapter on The Colour of Forgetting.
- Edwin, Marl'ene, 'Orality in the Body of the Archive: Memorialising Representations of Creole Language and Culture in the Technologised Word', PhD thesis, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK, 2016. Includes a chapter on Angel.
- Florian, Sara, 'Contemporary West Indian Poetry: A "Creole" Aesthetics?', PhD thesis, University Ca'Foscari Venice, Italy, 2010. Contains a chapter dealing with Merle Collins's poetry (pp. 192-211).
- Grant, Wendy Elizabeth, '"Qui chile sa?": The Representation of Intergenerational Relationships in Caribbean Women's Writing: Merle Collins, Lakshmi Persaud, Edwidge Danticat, and Paule Marshall', PhD thesis, Harvard University, USA, 2009. Includes a chapter on Angel and The Colour of Forgetting.
- Kawalit, Alia, 'Across the Walls (Poetry Collection): Home, Alienation and Re-homing in Four Migrant Poets in London', PhD thesis, University of Kent, UK, 2015. Partly deals with Rotten Pomerack.
- Ligon, Alison D., '"On the Threshold of Becoming": An Examination of Three Works of Postcolonial Caribbean Women's Fiction: Zee Edgell's Beka Lamb, Merle Hodge's Crick Crack, Monkey, and Merle Collins' Angel', PhD thesis, Clark Atlanta University, USA, 2001.
- Meltzer, Susanna, 'Decolonizing the Mind: Recent Grenadian Fiction', MA dissertation, University of Puerto Rico, 2004. Partly deals with The Colour of Forgetting.
- Muñoz Jiménez, Ana Belén, 'Poesía contemporánea de inmigración caribeña y africana en el Reino Unido', PhD thesis, UNED (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia), Spain, 2011. In Spanish.
- Pearn, Julie, 'Poetry as Performing Art in the English-Speaking Caribbean', PhD thesis, University of Sheffield, UK, 1985. Includes a brief analysis of Merle Collins's poetry (pp. 281-287).
- Rafi, Iris Fawzia, '"You of Age to See about Youself Now! So Pull Up You Socks!" Themes of Bildung in Select Novels by West Indian Women Writers', PhD thesis, Emory University, USA, 1995.
- Rivera-Hernández, Roselina, 'La traducción de una lengua no estándar : traducción de segmentos en criollo francés e inglés presentes en la novela Angel (Women's Press 1993) de Merle Collins', MA dissertation, University of Geneva, Switzerland, 2000.
- Rodella, Milena, 'Unlayering History, Body and Landscape in the work of Jean Binta Breeze, Merle Collins, Marlene Nourbese Philip and Olive Senior', PhD thesis, University of Reading, UK, 2010.
- Said Tewfik, Lamia Mohamed, 'Symbolic Revolution in the Text: A Study of Selected Poems by Contemporary Caribbean Women Writer', PhD thesis, Cairo University, Egypt, 2006.
- Scafe, Suzanne, '"Now the Half Has Been Told: Resistance and the Fiction of Four Contemporary Caribbean Women Writers', PhD thesis, SOAS, University of London, UK, 2006. Includes a chapter on Angel.
- Shemak, April Ann, 'Reimagining the Nation: Corporeality, Land and Language in Julia Alvarez's In the Time of the Butterflies, Michelle Cliff's No Telephone to Heaven and Merle Collins' Angel, MA dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, USA, 1998, 110 pp.
- Smith, Robert Kyriakos, 'Representing Radical Politics in Anglophone Caribbean Literature After Independence', PhD thesis, UCLA, USA, 2020.
Profiles
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News
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Reviews
Novels
Angel
- Kirkus Reviews, 25 September 1988.
- Publishers Weekly, 10 January 1998.
- Brooks, Jane, 'Struggling towards a Voice', Third World Quarterly 10.3 (July 1988), pp. 1368-1370.
- DoHarris, Brenda, 'Angel: A Novel by Merle Collins', The Zora Neale Hurston Forum 4.1 (Fall 1989): 25-28.
- Salkey, Andrew, World Literature Today 63.1 (Winter 1989), p. 151.
The Colour of Forgetting
Collections of Short Stories
The Ladies Are Upstairs
- Jackson, A. Naomi, 'Downstairs Stories', Caribbean Review of Books, November 2013.
- Wharton Lowe, John, Journal of the Short Story in English 61 (Spring 2013), pp. 165-167.
Edited Collections
Watchers and Seekers
Collections of Poems
Before the Dawn Breaks
- Cobham, Rhonda, 'Making It through the Night', New Beacon Review 2&3 (November 1986), pp. 72-77.
- D'Aguiar, Fred, Wasafiri 3.5 (1986), pp. 38-39.
Rotten Pomerack
Lady in a Boat
- Bobb, June D., '"Want[ing] a Different Song": Elegy for an Island', Caribbean Writer, date unknown.
- de Leon, Concepcion, 'What to Read before Heading to the Caribbean', New York Times, 6 November 2017.
Penguin Modern Poets: Jackie Kay, Merle Collins, Grace Nichols
- France, Linda, 'High Days and Holidays', Poetry Review 86.4 (1996): 74-75.
Miscellaneous
- Savory, Jenny, Glossary and Notes on Poems by Merle Collins, Louise Bennett, Abdul Malik (London: Inner London Education Authority, 1988).
- Thomas, Keith, 'A Shared Teaching Experience with Merle Collins', Wasafiri 4.8 (1988), pp. 10-11.
- Derrick, Kim, 'Collins' Poetry Entices', The Darmouth, 16 February 1994.
- 'Distinguished Scholar Lecture: Merle Collins, "The Search for the Story of Louise Langdon Norton Little, Mother of Malcolm X"', University of Maryland, 2018.
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