...., 116. 3. Joan Dayan, Haiti, History, and the Godss (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996), 26; Vincent Placoly, Dessalines ou la passion de l’indépendancee (Case-Pilote, Martinique: L’Autre mer, 1994), 81. 25...

...José F. Buscaglia-Salgado Silvio Torres-Saillant's passionate defense of Caribbean intellectual traditions is far from being “an intellectual history of the Caribbean.” Nevertheless, this is an indispensable book, both for what it says and for the Antillean passion that drives the author's...

...Chelsey L. Kivland Since 2010, “Jerry” has become Haiti's most prominent graffiti artist. Dealing with the most sensitive issues of the day—disaster, insecurity, illiteracy, aid dependency, corruption, and poverty—he has canvassed Port-au-Prince and other cities with murals that invite compassion...

... and assimilationist bourgeoisie. With his friends—like Ina Césaire, a writer who collected tales from wakes, or Franck Hubert, who studies traditional “pitt” architecture and houses made of bwa ti-bonm7—Anicet 5 A very well-known song of the traditional Martinican repertory, interpreted by the great...

... in balancing these elements sufficiently to consistently produce a respected and connected journal. I have had the privilege (and sheer good luck) this past decade to journey with scholars such as David Scott, Andrea Shaw, and, most recently, Vanessa K. Valdés, each of whom has helped me balance my...

... to the Caribbean.⁶ Such religious practices syncretically embraced Christianity on the new terrain (see fi gure 2). A mythologizing of history and culture has also taken place in scribal cultures, with obvious examples being the history of the Greeks, which is rendered through a cosmol- ogy of gods...

... English (sometimes British) identity—freedom loving, fair, independent, gener- ous, invincible—that has violently or benevolently imposed itself upon other cultures with- out signifi cantly altering itself in the process is still very much with us. On the other side of the equation, there is still...

... identity and inserting Martinique more fully within the Caribbean Region, the literary strategies of Chamoiseau reinforce ties with France. Small Axe, Inc. 2009 Patrick Chamoiseau and the Limits of the Aesthetics of Resistance Stella Vincenot It would seem paradoxical to situate the work...

... insurgency, I am troubled by the fact that Buck-Morss' anti-multiculturalist notion of universality is predicated on an epistemology of catastrophe and the violent stripping of the individual of cultural and social ties. If there is anything we can learn from the Western history of catastrophes, from...

... en pays assiégé: Haïti, Writing Under Siegee (2004). Évelyne Trouillot is a Haitian writer who has published poetry, short fi ction, and novels. She has also written works for children, including L’oiseau miragee (1997) and L’ île de Ti Jean (2004). Her fi rst collection of short...

...J. Michael Dash While there is an attempt to install Edouard Glissant as a literary patriarch after his death, we should not forget his interest in a poetics of risk that was tied to Michel Leiris's fascination with primitive rituals in general and the bullfight in particular. Glissant's well-known...

... with such great clarity of the human nature to love unconditionally. 45 Another anonymously written review, allegedly posted from Kingston, Jamaica, continues in this formalist vein. This entry asserts of the novel: “[It] has wide appeal. Passionate. Erotic. A modern-day love story rooted in reality. Captures...

... and transportability of the ontological partitions that we so easily presuppose: body and mind, animality and humanity, matter and not matter, feminine and masculine, though the latter pairing has dropped out of my most recent work. We need to step back and ask how we can know feeling that is not tied to our...

... illustration of the reason that concepts such as Carole Boyce Davies’s “migratory subjectivi- ties” and Simon Gikandi’s “maps of Englishness” are so necessary to the work of uncovering the complexities of Afro-Caribbean identity and self-representation.3 As Mary Prince narrates her history, and along...

... for Snakey, who becomes the idealized, surrogate Other of Martha’s erotic fantasy. This explains the telling dream she has in which Snakey “with the head of Estelle, came to her and took her in his arms and did not need to tell her that he loved her for she saw the passion in his eyes...

...” struck a new, dark chord in Anglophone Caribbean poetry. His awareness of the pain of Caribbean history is never in doubt, and that pain has made itself felt, without self-indulgence, from time to time in his work. It is central to the fable of the play Ti-Jean and His Brothers . We share...

... to Humus, she has published four other novels—D’eaux douces (2004), Le jour où la mer a disparu (2007), Les chiens ne font pas les chats (2008), and Anticorps (2010)—and has also made several documentaries. 1 Fabienne Kanor, Humus (Paris: Gallimard, 2006); hereafter cited in the text...

...Bonnie Thomas Renowned Guadeloupean writer Maryse Condé has been a practitioner of littérature-monde for decades. Despite her seminal role in French Caribbean literature she has never limited the subject of her writings, nor her physical inhabitation, to a single confined space. Her extensive...

... nègre” in Écrire en pays dominé : 20 he is the mayor surrounded by communists and advised by a “mulâtre-avocatiste” who nevertheless understands Marie-Sophie’s quest; in his tropical garden he has the aura of the Mentôs and his Cahier is a “médicament-poème.” 21 Similarly, the postman Ti...

... it has a chance to potentially grow within us. The truth is, to speak my “relationship with language” is to recount myself to it, say how it forms me, how I am attached to it, how much it has a hold on me: because to say it, the very thing I need is language. I cannot speak of it, let's say...