New Worlds, Old Ways: Speculative Tales from the Caribbean
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Genre: Short Story Anthologies (Adult)
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| Awards & Recognition | [−] |
◊ A 2016 New West Indian Guide Bookshelf Pick ◊ A 2017 Caribbean Beat Caribbean Bookshelf Pick
| Praise & Reviews | [−] |
★ "The Caribbean has a powerful, modern tradition of fantastic literature that’s on full display in this anthology...none of these writers is likely to be familiar to American audiences, but all are worth getting to know."
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"The collection is a boon for scholars and reading aficionados of the speculative fiction genre...New Worlds, Old Ways offers both depth and delight without disappointment. It suggests that if one looks closely enough, they will find that Caribbean fiction has always been speculative."
—Sx Salon
"A contemporary, vibrant collection of short stories that presents snapshots of various aspects of the Caribbean everyday. The stories represent the Caribbean present, the fantastic, and the future under one powerful, multifaceted and urgent theme...The idea of home is echoed in "The Passing Over of Zephora" by Summer Edward. Pan-Caribbean identity, belonging, the nation state, and the severing of memory are deftly explored in this etheral piece."
—Caribbean Quarterly: A Journal of Caribbean Culture
"Each writer adds a twenty-first-century voice to the development of the ongoing discourse of understanding Caribbean subjectivity by combining speculative tropes...with postcolonial issues of ‘Othering’, myth and folklore narratives."
—The Journal of West Indian Literature
"New Worlds, Old Ways aims to root the legacy of science fiction and fantasy writing more reassuringly in home ground. These are stories of terrorized citizens seeking innovations under a police state, of ancestral beginnings butting up against the grim realities of climate change and exile. They announce that Caribbean speculative writing is here to stay."
—Caribbean Beat
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"The collection is a boon for scholars and reading aficionados of the speculative fiction genre...New Worlds, Old Ways offers both depth and delight without disappointment. It suggests that if one looks closely enough, they will find that Caribbean fiction has always been speculative."
—Sx Salon
"A contemporary, vibrant collection of short stories that presents snapshots of various aspects of the Caribbean everyday. The stories represent the Caribbean present, the fantastic, and the future under one powerful, multifaceted and urgent theme...The idea of home is echoed in "The Passing Over of Zephora" by Summer Edward. Pan-Caribbean identity, belonging, the nation state, and the severing of memory are deftly explored in this etheral piece."
—Caribbean Quarterly: A Journal of Caribbean Culture
"Each writer adds a twenty-first-century voice to the development of the ongoing discourse of understanding Caribbean subjectivity by combining speculative tropes...with postcolonial issues of ‘Othering’, myth and folklore narratives."
—The Journal of West Indian Literature
"New Worlds, Old Ways aims to root the legacy of science fiction and fantasy writing more reassuringly in home ground. These are stories of terrorized citizens seeking innovations under a police state, of ancestral beginnings butting up against the grim realities of climate change and exile. They announce that Caribbean speculative writing is here to stay."
—Caribbean Beat
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Literary analysis essay in Journal of West Indian Literature
Book review by Sx Salon
Book review by Caribbean Quarterly: A Journal of Caribbean Culture
Book review by Caribbean Beat
Book review by Publishers Weekly