Guest Authors: Camille Hernandez-Ramdwar + Vanessa Walters + Soraya Palmer

Conversation Partner: Sharma Taylor

Caribbean literature is all-encompassing, spanning generations, genres, space and place. Through the works of the writers on this panel, we explore the complexity of the Caribbean story. As a robust repository of histories and a wealth of human experiences, the Caribbean canon is as inclusive as it is diverse.

Through its treatment of universally-relevant themes about the human condition and because of its perpetual willingness to confront the muted, audacious, violent and (often) painful, Caribbean literature (and its writers) bears a remarkable capacity to point the way forward in this increasingly turbulent world, much in the way that a pinprick of light shines hope in cavernous darkness.