Strictly Facts: A Guide to Caribbean History and Culture
Alexandria Miller
126 episodes
1 week ago
Send us a text message and tell us your thoughts. Celebrate the holidays with us with a throwback episode as we open a window onto a season where streets become stages, kitchens turn into archives, and every drumbeat and carol carries a story. From the clatter of cowbells in Nassau to the smoky crackle of a roast pig on Christmas Eve, the region’s holidays reveal how history lives in sound, taste, and togetherness. We start with the pulse of festival culture: Junkanoo’s lavish costumes and go...
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Send us a text message and tell us your thoughts. Celebrate the holidays with us with a throwback episode as we open a window onto a season where streets become stages, kitchens turn into archives, and every drumbeat and carol carries a story. From the clatter of cowbells in Nassau to the smoky crackle of a roast pig on Christmas Eve, the region’s holidays reveal how history lives in sound, taste, and togetherness. We start with the pulse of festival culture: Junkanoo’s lavish costumes and go...
Beyond the Canon: Unearthing Early Caribbean Literary Treasures with Dr. Alison Donnell
Strictly Facts: A Guide to Caribbean History and Culture
42 minutes
3 months ago
Beyond the Canon: Unearthing Early Caribbean Literary Treasures with Dr. Alison Donnell
Send us a text message and tell us your thoughts. What if everything we thought we knew about Caribbean literary history was incomplete? That's the premise of today's captivating conversation with Professor Alison Donnell, whose groundbreaking new book, Lost and Found: An A to Z of Neglected Writers of the Anglophone Caribbean (Papillote Press 2025), challenges the traditional narrative that Caribbean literature primarily emerged in the 1950s through male writers who migrated abroad. Through ...
Strictly Facts: A Guide to Caribbean History and Culture
Send us a text message and tell us your thoughts. Celebrate the holidays with us with a throwback episode as we open a window onto a season where streets become stages, kitchens turn into archives, and every drumbeat and carol carries a story. From the clatter of cowbells in Nassau to the smoky crackle of a roast pig on Christmas Eve, the region’s holidays reveal how history lives in sound, taste, and togetherness. We start with the pulse of festival culture: Junkanoo’s lavish costumes and go...
