Arts for the 21st Century

Andrew Armstrong

Andrew Armstrong

Andrew Armstrong, a retired lecturer of literatures in English, was born in Barbados and taught African literature and film, novel studies, and contemporary prose fiction at The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus. Featured among his work on established and contemporary writing and writers throughout the diaspora which has appeared in peer reviewed and scholarly publications are Cherie Jones’ The Burning Bush Women in the Journal of the Short Story in English; Leila Aboulela’s fiction in the essay collection African Migration Narratives; Ben Okri and Festus Iyawi in the Journal of African Cultural Studies; and Moses Isegawa and Goretti Kyomuhendo’s novels in The Journal of International Women’s Studies.

Looking Askance: A Commentary on Modes of Observation in the Letters of John Wickham

John Wickham’s “Letter from Ferney”, “Notes from New York”, “Dutch Excursion”, and “Letter from Geneva” form an epistolary “mailbox” of work from a Caribbean man of letters writing from abroad on places, faces and things from a way of seeing whose narrative “mode” can best be described as looking askance.
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