1. See, for example,Ronald Fernandez'sCruising the Caribbean: U.S. Influence and Intervention in the Twentieth Centuryfor an exhaustive account of US regional aggression.
2. Heather Hathaway'sCaribbean Waves: Relocating Claude McKay and Paule Marshall(1999) deserves mention in this light: it, too, is interested in disrupting the perceived unity of African American experience achieved via the erasure of Caribbean heritage. However, Hathaway, unlike Karem and Pedersen, is most interested in how this reflects on an understanding of US culture and society. Winston James has also insisted on the Caribbean roots of McKay's political practice.
3. Edwards is, to be sure, carefully insistent on the productive discrepancies and disjunctions inherent in the practice of black internationalism, but both he and Stephens (the latter most influentially in her 2005 monographBlack Empire: The Masculine Global Imaginary of Caribbean Intellectuals in the United States, 1914–1962) ultimately tend towards the national-border-crossing concept of diaspora as their primary unit of analysis.
4. In this light, the story could even be seen to anticipate Chinua Achebe'sThings Fall Apartin closing with the discursive erasure of subaltern resistance via self-serving administrative language.
5. This publication was the house organ of the Roundway psychiatric hospital in Wiltshire where Walrond lived as a voluntary patient from 1952 to 1957. For a brief, well-researched account of Walrond's life, seeJames Davis's“A Prism So Strange: The Biography of Eric Walrond,”which offers a provocative take on Walrond's trajectory to Roundway. For an overview of Walrond's later life in particular, see Parascandola and Wade's introduction and chronology inIn Search of Asylum: The Later Writings of Eric Walrond.