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...Charles Forsdick This article reflects on the presence (and absence) of references to Haiti in the events surrounding the Bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade in Great Britain. It suggests that a growing public awareness of and media attention to Haiti is associated with an increased...

... of contemporary Haitian art, the historically inspired paintings of Edouard Duval Carrié play a key role. In 1989, on the occasion of the bicentenary of the French Revolution, he produced an extraordinary fresco entitled Revolution in the Tropics.6 Caricatural characters, laughable...

... as a stage for a French theater company to perform a play by Jean Jacques Rousseau. Th is magical representation of the collision of history and fantasy, real and surreal, may provide a useful way to analyze recent events in Haiti. Th e bicentenary of the Haitian Revolution has provided an occasion...

... Scott Caribbean selves. Our guest editors, Martin Munro and Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw, have assembled an excellent group of articles drawn from their June 2004 conference marking the bicentenary of the Haitian Revolution. Th e articles themselves need no introduction from me—they speak...

... Scott Caribbean selves. Our guest editors, Martin Munro and Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw, have assembled an excellent group of articles drawn from their June 2004 conference marking the bicentenary of the Haitian Revolution. Th e articles themselves need no introduction from me—they speak...

... as that mortuary practices and funeral rituals help the living to heal and are ways of honoring and memorializing the dead, the Jamaica Bicentenary Committee and the Ministry of Tourism, Entertainment, and Culture organized an Ancestral Funeral Rites Ceremony as the major bicentennial commemorative event...

... Development (with Paul Basu, 2014), Museums and Communities: Curators, Collections, Collaborations (with Viv Golding, 2013), and “Slavery and the (Symbolic) Politics of Memory in Jamaica: Rethinking the Bicentenary,” in Representing Enslavement and Abolition in Museums (2011). M onchoachi...

... the ticket collector, back in a minute) during the Haitian Bicentenary conference. It seems to me that it would be more interesting to mark out the traces of a fabulous past during the turbulent present that the country is going through. Instead of looking Small Axe 18, September 2005: pp. 202...

... reinterpretation of the Haitian Revolution to emerge in the lead up to the bicentenary of independence was written not by a Haitian, but by a “white” American, Madison Smartt Bell. Bell’s trilogy, All Souls’ Rising (1995), Master of the Crossroads (2000), and The Stone That the Builder...

... of domination and slavery.⁴ axe Exactly two hundred years later, on 18 November 2003, on the day of the celebration of the bicentenary of the battle of Vertières in Cap Haïtien, President Jean-Bertrand Aris- tide, in a “vibrant speech” in Creole punctuated with French, exclaimed, “Our...

... celebrations of the bicentenary of his death to demand repa- rations from France and echoing key phrases of Louverture’s (most notably in his first speech in exile, made on the tarmac at Bangui airport in February 2004). It is with such a sense of historical short-circuiting—or, to borrow Bell’s own...

... on the financing of the London docks), a sense that this seam of material represented something important about Britain’s history that had not yet been tapped, and that this material should be made public as fully and quickly as possible. The imminence of the 2007 bicentenary 16...

... trivial. Parisian critics, probably long since tired of the countless historical images that went along with the bicentenary, celebrated the large-scale paintings, which were multicolor reminders that people of color had had to take charge themselves to put revolutionary ideas into practice...

... and the bicentenary of the slave trade's abolition in Jamaica, and the organizing around an August 2013 international conference in Jamaica, “Rastafari, Coral Gardens, and African Redemption: Challenges and Opportunities,” exemplify sites of black memory. Only through such memory can a people properly confront...

... are made between Haiti’s successful revolu- tionary past, its heroes, and the forging of an Antillean cultural identity.2 In contrast, Haitian 1. See inter alia Lyonel Trouillot, Bicentenaire (Arles: Actes Sud, 2004), and the special Haitian bicentenary issues of the following journals: Small...

.... Recently, Irons has also presented performances, one of which was at the Materializing Slavery exhibition at the Institute of Jamaica in 2007, part of that year’s bicentenary observations of the abolition of the slave trade. On that occasion, Irons, dressed in a black, priest-like...

... several sailing voyages, includ- ing a notable journey in 2007—the year that Britain and her former colonies marked the bicentenary of the abolition of the slave trade—to certain points in Europe and in West Africa. More recently, following the devastating 12 January...

... of the Bicentenary of His Birth (Kingston: National Gallery of Jamaica, 2001), 16. 6 Thompson, An Eye for the Tropics , 55–64. 5 David Boxer, “Collecting Early Jamaican Photographs,” in David Boxer and Edward Lucie-Smith, eds., Jamaica in Black and White: Photography in Jamaica, c.1845–c.1920...

... 18 July 2002 Both dedications from Guadeloupe to Gorée were gifted with public and private initia- tives to mark the bicentenary of an important period in Guadeloupean history: the struggle of Joseph Ignace and Louis Delgrès against the reinstatement of slavery, first...

... in the early years of the twenty-fi rst century, chimè street warfare erupting in bicentenary tragedy and the second exile of Aristide on 29 February 2004. Danticat’s short story collection Krik? Krak published in 1995 during the US–UN occupation of Haiti, directly addresses...