Curdella Forbes

Curdella Forbes
Born	Curdella Forbes Colony of Jamaica, British Empire
Occupation	Novelist, nonfiction writer, professor, academic
Education	University of the West Indies (PhD)
Genre	Literary fiction
Notable awards	Hurston/Wright Legacy Award

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

Life and career

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

Selected works

Novels

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

Non-fiction

• Revisiting Samuel Selvon's Trilogy of Exile: Implications for Gender Consciousness and Gender Relations in Caribbean Culture (1997)
• Tropes of the Carnivalesque: Hermaphroditic Gender as Identity in Slave Society and in West Indian Fictions (1999)
• 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)
• The End of Nationalism?: Performing the Question in Benítez-Rojo's 'The Repeating Island' and Glissant's 'Poetics of Relation' (2002)
• Selling That Caribbean Woman Down the River: Diasporic Travel Narratives and the Global Economy (2005)
• Fracturing Subjectivities: International Space and the Discourse of Individualism in Colin Channer's 'Waiting in Vain' and Jamaica Kincaid's 'Mr. Potter' (2008)
• "Trespassers Will Be Persecuted": Reading Migratory Subjectivities in Maryse Condé's 'Heremakhonon' and Perambulatory Chain Emails (2010)
• Between Plot and Plantation, Trespass and Transgression: Caribbean Migratory Disobedience in Fiction and Internet Traffic (2012)