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Cover image: *The Wild Tamarind of Jamaica with Scarlet Pod and Barbet* by Marianne North (1872)

Translating caribbean literature: a homegoing

Wasafiri

In this essay published by Wasafiri, Anita Barton-Williams explores translation, Caribbean literature and the circulation of Black writing across languages. The piece examines the tensions, losses and possibilities involved in translating Caribbean texts, particularly from Creole into colonial languages such as English and French, while reflecting on translation as both literary practice and cultural relation.