Dr Sarah Lawson Welsh - Publications and Papers
Sarah’s main publications are the Routledge Reader In Caribbean
Literature (Taylor & Francis: 1996) and Grace Nichols (2007),
the first book-length study of this Black-British/Guyanese author
in the prestigious ‘Writers and Their Work’ series (Northcote Press
& the British Council). A co-edited collection, Rerouting the
Postcolonial: New Directions for a New Millennium, will be
published by Routledge in 2009. She has published numerous articles
and book chapters on Caribbean and Black British writing and her
work has been reprinted as part of the Open University course
materials for A430 – Post-colonial Literatures in
English.
She is one of the founding members Associate Editor of the
international Journal of Postcolonial Writing (formerly World
Literature Written in English), published by Taylor &
Francis.(http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/journal.asp?issn=1744-9855&linktype=5).
Sarah is also Caribbean area editor for the Literary
Encyclopaedia, a well-respected online reference resource. Sarah’s
monograph, Grace Nichols, was published in the British Council
'Writers and their Work' series in 2007 and the co-edited
collection, Rerouting the Postcolonial: New Directions for a New
Millennium was published by Routledge in 2009.(http://www.routledgeliterature.com/books/Rerouting-the-Postcolonial-isbn9780415543255).
Sarah also co-edited the bestselling, The Routledge Reader in
Caribbean Literature, first published in 1996.
http://www.routledgeliterature.com/books/The-Routledge-Reader-in-Caribbean-Literature-isbn9780415120494
Lawson Welsh, Sarah (1992) ‘Linton Kwesi Johnson's Tings an
Times’, Bete Noire, pp.406-424.
--- (1996a) ‘New Wine in New Bottles: The Critical Reception of
West Indian Writing in Britain in the 1950s and the early 1960s’ in
The Routledge Reader in Caribbean Literature(Routledge),
pp.261-268.
--- (1996b) ‘Experiments in Brokenness: The Creative Use of
Creole in David Dabydeen’s Slave Song’, in The Routledge Reader in
Caribbean Literature (Routledge), pp.416-424.
--- (1997a) ‘(Un) belonging Citizens - Unmapped Territory:
Immigration and Black British Identity in the post 1945 period’, in
Stuart Murray (ed.) Not On Any Map - Essays on Postcoloniality and
Cultural Nationalism (Exeter University Press), pp.43-66.
--- (1997b) ‘Experiments in Brokenness: The Creative Use of
Creole in David Dabydeen’s Slave Song’, in Kevin Grant (ed.) The
Art ofDavidDabydeen (Peepal Tree Press), pp.27-46.
--- (1998a) ‘The Shape-Shifting Fictions of Pauline Melville’ in
Mary Conde and Thorunn Lonsdale (Eds.)CaribbeanWomen Writers:
Fiction in English(Macmillan), pp. 144-171.
--- (1998b) ‘Critical Myopia and Black British Literature:
Reassessing the literary contribution of the post-Windrush
generation(s)’, Kunapipi, XXI/1 (Special Windrush Commemoration
Edition: 1948-98), pp.132-142.
--- (2000a) ‘”Out in the Open”: ‘Under-represented Sexualities
in Shani Mootoo’s Cereus Blooms at Night and Lawrence Scott’s
Aelred’s Sin’, in The Vitality of West Indian Literature: Caribbean
and Indian Essays, edited by H. Cynthia Wyatt (Mysore: Dvanyaloka
Publications), pp.208-23.
--- (2000b) ‘Out in the Open: ‘Under-represented Sexualities’ in
Shani Mootoo’s Cereus Blooms at Nightand Lawrence Scott’s Aelred’s
Sin’,The Literary Criterion (India), special issue on Caribbean
Literature.
--- (2001) ‘Making with their Rhythms something torn and new:
the literatures of Jamaica and Trinidad’, in Volume II of A History
of Literature in the Caribbean, edited by Vera Kutzinski, General
Series Editor, J. Arnold (Amsterdam and Philadelphia:
Benjamins).
--- (2002) ‘Imposing Narratives: European incursions and
intertexts in Pauline Melville’s The Venriloquist’s Tale’, in
Dependence, Independence and Interdependence at the Threshold of
the 21st Century(Rodophi Press), edited by Prof. Gerhard
Stiltz.
---(2003a)‘”Out From Under the Shadow of Jean”: Critical Bias
and Critical Neglect in the Construction of a Tradition of
Caribbean Women’s Writing: The Case of Elma Napier’, in Joan
Anim-Addo (ed.) Centre of Remembrance: Memory and Caribbean Women's
Literature (London: Mango Publishing), 134-44.
---(2003b) ‘New Wine in new bottles: The Critical Reception of
West Indian Writing in Britain in the 1950s and the early 1960s’ in
Open University course materials A430 – Post-colonial Literatures
in English (Milton Keynes: The Open University).
--- (2004a) Guest Editor of Caribbean Special Issue of World
Literature Written in English, 39.1.
--- (2007) Forthcoming ‘How to Teach Caribbean Literature’ in
Dean Butler and Patrick Quinn eds Anthology of Colonial and
Postcolonial Short Fiction (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin).