publications

Books

About Kingston. Trinidad and Tobago: Peekash Press. 2025 | 19 pages

Edited Journal Special Issues

Gender-based Violence in the Anglophone Caribbean: Representation and Resistances in Literature and Culture. Edited by Kelsi Delaney and Amílcar Sanatan. Caribbean Quarterly 70 (3-4). 2024

Creating a Caribbean Sense of Place: Calypso, Spoken Word and the Oral Tradition. Edited by Paula Morgan and Amílcar Sanatan. Tout Moun: Caribbean Journal of Cultural Studies (1). 2021

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

Representing Caribbean Masculinities and Vocabularies of Gender-based Violence in the Santana Puppet Web Series.” Caribbean Quarterly 70 (3-4): 371-390. 2024

High Time to Break Up the Boys’ Club: The Gendered Politics of Spoken Word and Open Mic Spaces in Trinidad and Tobago.” Caribbean Journal of Education 43 (1): 109-128. 2021

Book Chapters

Saint Ville, Arlette, June Y.T. Po and Amílcar Sanatan. “Institutional Change Between the RastafarI Movement and the Formal State in Jamaica: A Historical Perspective.” In Institutional Diversity and Sustainable Environmental Management: Social, Cultural and Functional Perspectives, edited by H.M. Tuihedur Rahman and Ashlee-Ann Pigford, 91-107. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press. 2025

“Masculinism and Gendered Power Relations in the Caribbean Left.” In Race, Class and Nationalism in the Twenty-First Century Caribbean, edited by Scott Timcke and Shelene Gomes, 143-160. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press. 2024

“Nostalgia for the Future: Student Activism of the Caribbean Left.” In  Handbook of Civil Society and Social Movements in Small States, edited by Lino Briguglio, Michael Briguglio, Sheila Bunwaree and Claire Slatter, 332-343. London and New York: Routledge. 2023

 “Like Walking a Tightrope: Leadership, Youth Empowerment and Organisational Culture in Political Youth Wings in Trinidad and Tobago.” In Youth Participation in the Caribbean: Politics and Development, edited by Terri-Ann Gilbert-Roberts, 104-122. London and New York: Routledge. 2022

Gomes, Shelene and Amílcar Sanatan. “Symbolic Violence in the Postcolonial Anglo-Caribbean.” In Gender and Domestic Violence in the Caribbean, edited by Ann Marie Bissessar and Camille Huggins, 23-38. United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan. 2021

Critical Essays and Commentaries

Sanatan, Amílcar, Raegan Gibbings and Shalinee Bahadur. “Forward Ever with Jacqueline Creft: The Paradox of Women’s Liberation in the Caribbean Revolutionary Left.” History in Action 6 (1): 26-34. 2018

The Internet is Cool, Scholarship is Cold and Beyoncé is a Feminist: Reflections on the Popular Action Assignment in Introduction to Women’s Studies.” Caribbean Review of Gender Studies 10: 149-162. 2016

Introductions, Forewords and Postfaces

Delaney, Kelsi and Amílcar Sanatan. “Introduction – Social Change and Gender-based Violence: Representations in Anglophone Caribbean Art and Culture.” Caribbean Quarterly 70 (3-4): 291-312. 2024

Introduction – Voice Tracks: Creating a Caribbean Sense of Place.” Tout Moun: Caribbean Journal of Cultural Studies 6 (1): 1-6. 2021

“Note from the Guild President” (Foreword). The Guild of Students at the University of the West Indies of St. Augustine, 1962-2012, authored by Shane J. Pantin and Dexnell G.L. Peters, ix. Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press. 2013

Interviews

Writing and Performing the Nation: An Interview with Paul Keens-Douglas on Orality and Caribbean Literature.” Tout Moun: Caribbean Journal of Cultural Studies 6 (1): 1-17. 2021

I Want to Disturb my Neighbour: An Interview with Henry Charles on Youth Movements, Empowerment and the Role of National Youth Councils in Caribbean Development.” Journal of Eastern Caribbean Studies 44 (3): 140-152. 2019

Writing is an Arsenal: An Interview with Colin Robinson.” sx salon 32 (October 2019)

A (Not So) New Day for Caribbean Literature and the Arts: An Interview with Marielle Barrow on Digital Humanities and Archiving Caribbean Culture.” Tout Moun: Caribbean Journal of Cultural Studies 5 (1): 1-9. 2019

Borders and Marxist Politics in the Caribbean: An Interview with Earl Bousquet on the Workers Revolutionary Movement in St. Lucia.” ACME: An International Journal of Critical Geographies 18 (1): 246-264. 2019

An Approach to Freedom: An Interview with Wesley Gibbings on Journalism and Activism in the Caribbean.” Tout Moun: Caribbean Journal of Cultural Studies 4 (2): 1-12. 2018.

Social Media and Feminist Social Change in the Caribbean: An Interview with Ronelle King on #LifeInLeggings.” Caribbean Review of Gender Studies 11: 323-340. 2017

Book Reviews

Roger Robinson, A Portable Paradise.” Journal of West Indian Literature 28 (2): 162-164. 2020

The Coup Clock Clicks.” Caribbean Quarterly 66 (4): 585-588. 2020

On Reading Maps and Memory (Review of Canisia Lubrin’s Voodoo Hypothesis).” sx salon 33 (February 2020)

Technical Reports

Hosein, Gabrielle, Tricia Basdeo-Gobin, Colin Robinson, Sabrina Mowlah-Baksh, Simone Leid and Amílcar Sanatan. Gender-Based Violence in Trinidad and Tobago: A Qualitative Study. Government of Trinidad and Tobago and UN Women Caribbean Multi-Country Office. 2018

Toolkits and Knowledge Resources

University of Leicester, the University of the West Indies, Tribe Sankofa, The Oral Tradition ROOTS Foundation TT. Gender-based Violence Education for Youth: A Caribbean Arts-based Facilitation Guide. UK Arts and Humanities Research Council. July 2023

Creative Arts

Short fiction published in edited collections

“Foots from Westbury.” In Black Light Void: Dark Visions of the Caribbean, edited by Marsha Pearce, 41-58. United Kingdom: Hansib Publications. 2023

Poetry published in edited collections

“Like Boys” and “Getting Out”. In Caribbean Men in the Arts: Demystifying Masculinities with Essays, Interviews, Poetry and Stories, edited by Opal Palmer Adisa and Keino Senior, 52-56. United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 2024 | Publication includes author interview

“Hurricane Season,” “One Year After the Flood,” and “Day Zero.” In Disaster Matters, edited by Yvonne Weekes and Wendy McMahon (pp. 72, 96 and 111). St. Martin: House of Nehesi Publishers. 2022

“Constitution of the Republic of Outside Men.” In Bookmarked: Pree New Caribbean Writing, edited by Annie Paul, 225. Kingston, Jamaica. 2021

Poetry published in literary magazines and journals

“Visit to Combermere School, 2023,” “A Commitment to Righting Historical Wrongs,” and “A Marxist Analysis of West Indian Fatherhood.” Journal of West Indian Literature 33 (1): 98-102. 2024

Love Shrouded by Ackee Trees.” Poetry Archive Now, Worldview 2024

Coconut Drop.” Cordite Poetry Review 112. 2024

Flat Iron,” “Car Wash, Christmas Morning,” and “Barbara.sx salon (February 2023)

A Season of Grief.” Poetry Archive Now, Worldview 2022

Coolie Belle,” “Mitera,” and “Festival Light.” Journal of Indentureship and its Legacies 2 (1): 158-160. 2022

“Waterloo” and “Bangladesh.” Wasafiri 37 (2): 46-47. 2022

“Mariposas.” Magma Poetry 82 (Spring): 40. 2022

“Llegar,” Aquí Hay Gente,” “Mundo Nuevo,” “Ciudad de Lenguas,” and “Belle Smythe Street, Curepe.” Acalabash (December 2021)

“Belmont Nights” and “Port-of-Spain Blues.” Obsidian: Literature and Arts in the African Diaspora 47.1: 91-93. 2021

“Force Ripe,” “What They Say” and “Tambourine.” Caribbean Quarterly 67 (4): 489-491. 2021

Bossa Nova” and “Kingston 8.” Bim Magazine 10 (1): 20-21. 2021

“March to Caroni, 12 March 1970” and “NUFF, 13 September 1973.” The Caribbean Writer 35: 148-149. 2021

“Cité Soleil” and “La Caraïbe.” Sargasso: A Journal of Caribbean Literature, Language and Culture 2019/2020.(I & II): 100-101. 2020

“Lima.” Interviewing the Caribbean 6 (1): 104. 2020

“For Cabral,” “Fort-de-France,” “Marley’s Zimbabwe” and “Vida.” Aké Review 7: 14:15. 2020

Black Americas,” “Columbus Square,” “Minneapolis to Morvant.” Bim Magazine 9 (2): 31-33. 2020

Calypso from a Cemetery Slum.” Cordite Poetry Review 97 & 98. 2020

“À Pointe-À-Pitre,” “L’étudiant Noir,” “Le Pays Des Revenants” and “Les Quartiers Misérables.” The Caribbean Writer 34: 144-147. 2020

Becoming.” Peepal Tree Press (Blog). August 7, 2020 | 3rd place winner, John Robert Lee’s Canticle Competition

“Bocas del Dragón.” Magma Poetry 76 (Spring): 41. 2020

“Un Rêve.” Sinking City 8. 2020

“Last Summer in Scotland.” Gutter Magazine 21: 10. 2020

“At Queen’s Park,” “Jacqueline Creft’s Child,” “Maurice Bishop Teaches Sense of Place” and “Revolver.” The Caribbean Writer 33: 77-80. 2019

Dry Cry.” Cordite Poetry Review 92. 2019

“Iguana.” Moko Magazine 15 (July). 2019

Constitution of the Republic of Outside Men.” Pree Lit 3. 2019

“Ms. Rose was a Mad Woman” and “This Island I Love.” Interviewing the Caribbean 4 (2): 112-117. 2019 | Publication includes author interview

“Since 1898”, “Little Boats” and “Sovereignty”. Sargasso: A Journal of Caribbean Literature, Language and Culture 2017/2018 (I & II): 7-9. 2018

Nineteen Eighties Hymns.” Caribbean Review of Gender Studies 11: 265-268. 2017

“A Poem for Granny and a Flower.” Integration Quarterly: UWI-CARICOM Project (September – December) 22-23. 2009

Creative nonfiction essays published in literary magazines and journals

Growing Up Too Fast.” Caribbean Review of Gender Studies 15: 153-160. 2021

Disappearing Boys.” Lolwe 4 (December). 2021

A World of Poetry and Spoken Word.” Tout Moun: Caribbean Journal of Cultural Studies 6 (1): 1-5. 2021

“The First Day of Boys’ School.” Moko Magazine 17 (May). 2020

Creative nonfiction essays – Promundo writing fellowship:

Black Lives Matter and Confronting Power in the Caribbean.” Medium. Promundo-US. December 14, 2020

Masculinity in My Genes/Jeans.” Medium. Promundo-US. September 15, 2020

Sticky Parts.” Medium. Promundo-US. February 7, 2020

Farewell to Silence.Medium. Promundo-US. November 26, 2019