James, Marlon
About Marlon James
Grant, Colin. “Marlon James’s Booker Win Celebrated by Jamaican Authors.” The Guardian, 16 Oct. 2015
Reviews
Interviews
Preston, Alex. “Marlon James: ‘You Have to Risk Going too far’.” The Guardian, 17 Feb. 2019
Criticism
Frydman, Jason. “Death in the Arena: A Brief History of Dancehall, Time, and the Cold War.” Small Axe, vol. 60, 2019
Bucknor, Michael A. “Authorial Self-Fashioning, Political Denials and Artistic Distinctiveness: The Queer Poetics of Marlon James.” Journal of West Indian Literature, vol. 26, no. 2, 2018
Shoemaker, Lauren. “Femme Finale: Gender, Violence and Nation in Marlon James’ Novels.” Journal of West Indian Literature, vol. 26, no. 2, 2018
Harrison, Sheri-Marie. “Marlon James and the Metafiction of the New Black Gothic.” Journal of West Indian Literature, vol. 26, no. 2, 2018
Crowley, Emma. “’So Many Incredible Gehennas’: Musicality and the (Poetics) of ‘Relation’ in the Novels of Marlon James.” Journal of West Indian Literature, vol. 26, no. 2, 2018
Adams, Caryn Rae. “Uncomfortable Truths: Lifewriting, Trauma and Survivance in Marlon James’s A Brief History of Seven Killings.” Journal of West Indian Literature, vol. 26, no. 2, 2018
Walonen, Michael K. “Violence, Diasporic Transnationalism, and Neo-Imperialism in A Brief History of Seven Killings.” Small Axe, vol. 57, 2018
Hamilton, Njelle W. “’Jah Live’: Messianic Time and Post-Traumatic Narrative Disorder in Marlon James’s A Brief History of Seven Killings.” Journal of West Indian Literature, vol. 26, no. 2, 2018
Layne, Jhordan. “Re-Evaluating Religion and Superstition: Obeah and Christianity in Marlon James’s The Book of Night Women and William Earle Jr.’s Obi, or the History of Three-Fingered Jack.” Journal of West Indian Literature, vol. 26, no. 2, 2018
Deckard, Sharae. “’Always Returning from It’: Neoliberal Capitalism, Retrospect, and Marlon James’s A Brief History of Seven Killings.” CounterText, vol. 4, no. 2, 2018
Reyes, Paul. “Marlon James: Writing Against Type.” Virginia Quarterly Review, vol. 94, no. 1, 2018
Harrison, Sheri-Marie. “Global Sisyphus: Rereading the Jamaican 1960s through A Brief History of Seven Killings.” Small Axe, vol. 57, 2017
Fraser, Rhone. “Confronting Neocolonialism: An Evaluation of Marlon James’s A Brief History of Seven Killings.” Caribbean Quarterly, vol. 63, no. 1, 2017
Vásquez, Sam. “Violent Liaisons: Historical Crossings and the Negotiation of Sex, Sexuality, and Race in The Book of Night Women and The True History of Paradise.” Small Axe, vol. 38, 2012
Madore, Joél. “Jamaican Signatures: An Archetypal Analysis of Marlon James’s John Crow’s Devil.” Journal of Caribbean Literatures, vol. 7, no. 1, 2011
Works
Novels
Black Leopard, Red Wolf (2019)
A Brief History of Seven Killings (2014)
The Book of Night Women (2009)
John Crow’s Devil (2005)
Essays/Articles/Non-Fiction/Short Stories
“Oreo: Marlon James on a Crazy, Sexy, Forgotten Gem of Black Literature.” The Guardian, 7 Jul. 2018
“My Hero: Toni Morrison by Marlon James.” The Guardian, 17 Oct. 2015
Audio and Audiovisual Material
With Jake Morrissey. Marlon and Jake Read Dead People. Read it Forward, 2020
With Nalo Hopkinson. “Take Two: Nalo Hopkinson and Marlon James.” YouTube, 14 Oct. 2019
With Lauren Laverne. “Desert Island Discs: Marlon James, Writer.” BBC, 17 Mar. 2019
“The Arts Hour: Jamaican Novelist Marlon James.” BBC, 9 Mar. 2019
“In the Studio: Marlon James: Novelist at Work.” BBC, 18 Sep. 2017
With Claire Armitstead. “An Evening with Marlon James – Books Podcast.” The Guardian, 24 Dec. 2015