In this Issue

Table of Contents

Editor's Note

Kyla Kupferstein Torres
p. 1
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a962534
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Guest Editors' Note

Jason Allen-Paisant, Karen McCarthy Woolf
pp. 2-3
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a962535
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The Sequel to a Dream: Ghosts of 1980s Japan

Johny Pitts
pp. 4-13
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a962536
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Beef Miscellany

Keith Jarrett
pp. 14-17
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a962537
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The Maelstrom, and: Exit Interview

Isabelle Baafi
pp. 18-19
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a962538
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Dreaming and the Black Imagination: Black Out and the UK Theater Industry

Jess Murrain
pp. 20-30
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a962539
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The World Weeps, Her Cancer Conceived in Sweet England

Theodora Laird
pp. 31-32
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a962540
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Untitled

Jay Bernard
p. 33
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a962541
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Catching The Spirit: Black British Explorations In Speculative Fiction

Courttia Newland
pp. 34-40
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a962542
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Manifesto, and; Valencia, and; Poem For Silvia And Charles, and; Black Villages, and; Poem For Anthony Mcneil

Anthony Joseph
pp. 41-47
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a962543
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I Like

Isaiah Hull
pp. 48-49
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a962544
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Riddle Me This, Batman: Basquiat3 as a New CODEX © to Poetic Form

Nick Makoha
pp. 50-56
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a962545
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Humming With History

Grace Nichols
pp. 57-58
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a962546
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Autumn lone leaf

Matthew Muli
p. 59
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a962547
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Naming and Liberating Erased Black (Women's) Bodies in Biblical and Contemporary Eras: A Repository

Malika Booker
pp. 60-65
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a962548
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Carnival

Courtney Conrad
p. 66
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a962549
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15 Poems on Birdsong

Joshua Idehen
pp. 67-68
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a962550
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The Stick Insect and the Butterfly

Gabriel Gbadamosi
p. 69
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a962551
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Lashes

Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa
pp. 70-73
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a962552
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Bastion of the Still Empire: The Little Secrets of the Virgin Islands

Richard Georges
pp. 74-82
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a962553
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Dressed Me

Rachel Long
pp. 83-84
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a962554
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The Burden of a Living Body

Marisa K. Henderson
pp. 85-96
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a962555
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Peeling Whitewash: The Diasporic Bifurcation of an Intersectional Migrant

Sharleene Christie
pp. 97-107
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a962556
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Untitled

Ronnie McGrath
p. 108
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a962557
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Maud Sulter's Image-Making: The Rising of Jeanne Duval's Ka

Joslyn Gardner
pp. 109-122
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a962558
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White Gaze: The Way We See You

Jade Hylton
pp. 123-127
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a962559
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Dangerous Intimacy, Postracial Malaise, and Affective Impossibility in Natasha Brown's Assembly

Corrine Collins
pp. 128-137
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a962560
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Is There No Black in the Woman Question? Virago Press and the Issue of Collective Black Female Authorship

Kasablanca Adu
pp. 138-157
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a962561
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Lyric Discourse and Contemporary Black British Literature

William Lohier
pp. 158-169
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a962562
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Wadi

Momtaza Mehri
p. 170
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a962563
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Rapier

Salena Godden
pp. 171-181
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a962564
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Artist's Statement

p. 182
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a962565
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Contributors

pp. 183-187
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a962566
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