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..., puzzling term: bastard sugar , the “impure” sugar left after many boilings. Its brief role in the age of emancipation, and the crisis that emancipation posed for West Indian sugar, raise questions about the relationship between racialization, value, and legitimacy in the New World. Guided by the thought...

..., the mezzanines, sandy or metallic to the touch (the temperature has changed radically and a strong, cold wind shakes the hinges). we’ve eaten boiled sugar beet. here and there, pieces of zinc rise amorphously, I see them flying...

... cobblestones, rounded by time and water even before they arrived in Havana as weights in the belly of empty ships coming from far away, soon to be bursting with sugar and other treasures taken from the colonies. Like so many things...

... Investigations , Wittgenstein writes, 498. When I say that the orders “Bring me sugar” and “bring me milk” make sense, but not the combination “Milk me sugar,” that does not mean that the utterance of this combination of words has no effect. And if its effect is that the other person stares at me and gapes, I...

..., N.C.: Duke University Press, 2010. Tinsley, Omise’eke Natasha. Thiefing Sugar: Eroticism between Women in Carib- bean Literature. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2010. Tucker, Amy. The Illustration of the Master: Henry James and the Magazine Revolu- tion. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University...

... a blues musician based in Toronto named Sugar Brown (see www.sugarbrownmusic.com). Currently, he is researching musical performance, recording, and political economy. boundary 2 42:3 (2015) DOI 10.1215/01903659-­2919594 © 2015 by Duke University Press 206 boundary 2 / August 2015 Sabu Kohso...

...- spheric roots forty-some­ years before. Gathering tawdry palm frond weav- ings handcrafted rote deployment without going into details. Libelously Booker’s Guiana for British interest in sugar having its oil coast adjudicated by the United Nations otherwise honestly situated outside the first world...

... • “Soul Gidget” by Meatball Flag • “Stranger in Love” performed by The Spaniels • “Sugar Sugar” by The Archies • “Super Market” by Fapardokly • “Surfin’ Bird” by The Trashmen • “Telstar” by The Tornados • “Tequila” by The Champs • Theme Song from...

... Press, 2010. McClennen, Sophia A. Ariel Dorfman: An Aesthetics of Hope. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2010. McGillivray, Gillian. Blazing Cane: Sugar Communities, Class, and State Forma- tion in Cuba, 1868–1959. American Encounters/Global Interactions. Durham, N.C.: Duke University...

...” in the Hortense Spillers Papers collection at Brown University. In a typed manuscript page, after the list of names that “mark” black women (“Peaches,” “Brown Sugar,” “Sapphire,” “Earth Mother,” “Aunty,” etc.), there is a handwritten sentence in an early work-in-progress version of “Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe...

... of the American Revolution . Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press . Grainger James . (1764) 2000 . The Sugar-Cane . Reprinted in Poetics of Empire: A Study of James Grainger's “The Sugar-Cane,” by John Gilmore. London: Athlone Press . Greene Jack . 1988 . Pursuits...

... sugar mills, trapiches, I’ve suffered this, I’ve seen this, eso lo he sufrido, lo he visto, as Christ also saw it, that’s why como también lo ha visto Cristo, por eso...

... whereby “its contents did not much matter.” Benjamin also instances the “pilfering child,” who steals treats from his parents’ kitchen: “his hand advances like a lover through the night. Once at home in the darkness, it gropes towards sugar or almonds, raisins or preserves. And just as the lover...

... places on ‘‘position’’ strategically underscores the absence of position, the nonposition of the former slave in the postslavery Antilles. What Corre fails to emphasize is that with the Chilcoat / On Becoming French in Colonial Martinique 67 rise of the metropolitan beet sugar...

... significant detailsShe pretended to not be able to speak Chinese. She pretended to not know how to eat black eggs with sugar and sesame seeds sprinkled on top’’ (Seed, 131). In an alien environment, the aroma of home cooking arouses a deeply entangled feeling of nostalgia and belonging. In his...

... close to a microphone drowns out an express train,” he writes. “A lump of sugar dropping into a teacup produces the impression of an exploding shell” (Sokolov 1929 ). What Sokolov perceives to be the microphone's failings could instead be interpreted as its very powers: much as the microscope...

... and Lyle. On these lands labor cultivated and reaped sugar in conditions not far removed from the racial plantation slavery of previous centuries. Michael Manley, a trade unionist before becoming the leader of the People’s National Party in 1969, observed that the relationship between workers...

... to its advantage. To find a level of equivalence with the dollar, whatever that equivalence might be, was in itself a sign of existing. And the Cuban peso 6736 boundary 2 29:3 / sheet 224 of 265 would lose a little of its character as sugar mill...

... of economic activities, from sugar to shipping. With the exception of Irish Steel, these state corporations were generally well functioning. Wholesale privatizations began in 1991, and the largest was in 1999 with the sale of the public telecommunications company Eircom. Other important privatiza...

... of the sugar plantation in which Toussaint found him- self a modern slave and the French Revolution that gave him a revolution- ary modernist language in which to criticize it. Toussaint’s error, in short, derived from the fact that he inhabited a cognitive universe that he could neither simply claim...