Epilogue

Abstract

This chapter links the emergence of internationally acclaimed contemporary Creole literature to earlier historical eras and literary texts. Utilizing the concept of Creole transnationalism, it discusses the marketing of Caribbean Creoles in the works of authors Marlon James and Junot Diaz. The most extraordinary thing about James’ A Brief History of Seven Killings is that a book written mostly in Jamaican Creole found not just an international audience but a popular one. Jamaican Creole, one of the baddest of the bad grammars, is now part of a global lexicon of, not English, but Englishes. The chapter meditates on the twinned issues of sexual identity and exile in James’ work, and its relationship to his use of Creole. It links the issues of sexual identity and exile to black nationalism and gender politics to the politics of Creole literature in the Caribbean.