A selection of hand-curated books by the Peepal Tree team
Descriptions of food and eating in Anglophone Caribbean writing have so much to say about belonging and unbelonging, about identity, ethnicity, class, gender, migrancy, exile, food as a token and signifier of communicative exchange, food as a passageway to sensuality and sex, eating as an external sign of inner feelings, food as sacrament.
Completely up-to-the-minute treatments of the contemporary Caribbean with its many contradictions. These are not the versions of the Caribbean you'll read about in holiday tourist brochures!
“We always knew that the dismantling of the colonial paradigm would release strange demons from the deep, and that these monsters might come trailing all sorts of subterranean material” Stuart Hall
Founded in 2011, the NGC Bocas Lit Fest in April is Trinidad and Tobago’s premier annual literary festival: a lively celebration of books, writers, writing, and ideas, with a Caribbean focus and international scope. Explore the titles we'll be showcasing over the five days full of readings, performances, films, workshops, and discussions.