Introduction: The aesthetics of inscrutability in Caribbean fiction
The politics of interruption: metafictive critique and historical aporia in the midcentury Jamaican novel
To become so very Welsh: Denis Williams's The third temptation and the effacement of Afro-Caribbean identity
Language as animosity: pejorative speech and national identity
"The menace from the bush": abstraction and Indigenous violence in the work of Wilson Harris and Denis Williams
Rhysian disgust and the politics of complacency
Coda: Inscrutable pasts, inscrutable futures.