...Annie Paul In contemporary Jamaica, funerals increasingly revolve around fantasy coffins and designer caskets. This paper attempts to marshal visual and textual information describing recent developments in Jamaican funerals with a view to recording attempts by the Jamaican underclasses to produce...

... identity is played out across transnational borders and the limbo space or no-man's-land of the funeral casket, and narrativized in the letter to Mama and Papa in Jamaica and the globalized space of the Internet, where governmental policing is far more difficult than it is in localized spaces. All...

.... There was no need to tell the woman what had happened, she would be given a sealed casket. She told Petal to say that she would return with a lawyer if they did not produce her son. Drew let them into his office, his face even. She'd played her hand and she'd expected something more dramatic, a scene perhaps...

... of the Great House Farm or in the photograph of Emmett Till’s destroyed face, and the “acuity of regard,”15 which arises from a willingness to look into the open casket. Do the possibilities outweigh the dangers of looking (again)? If “to read the archive is to enter a mortuary...

... of this here and now. I argue that Lolita's presentation of self challenges the traditional, androgynous view of a female revolutionary: her gender performance engages a different kind of politics of excess. On the day of that attack, the thirty-four-year-old dressed as if anticipating her open casket...

... would print the photos from Till’s funeral, which revealed through an open casket Till’s brutally distorted face. Thus, Jet magazine became (as it often had during much of its existence) a chronicler of both black memory and black history—events large and small, weddings, celebrities, job...

... remains to be located and identified by friends and relatives. Her body was brought to Spanish Harlem for memorial services and was visited by hundreds of Puerto Ricans; it was then sent to Puerto Rico for its last rites. When her casket arrived on the island, it was brought to the Ateneo Puertorriqueño...

..., and singing, yelled in shock when Comhaire-Sylvain’s bereaved husband kissed his spouse’s lifeless body lying in the open casket. 3 This culture clash that occurred at Comhaire-Sylvain’s own funeral—a clash over funeral rites and attitudes toward death—is evocative of the anthropologist’s life and work. 4...

... life of the majority of Haitians.”41 The captured zombie is equal to the captured slave; the casket of the zombie is akin to the hold of a slave ship and the resurrected zombie is the enslaved African and Cre- olized African-Haitian in Haiti. The zombie “figure articulates...

.... And the casket was opened with his sons present. And both Amy Ashwood and Amy Jacques said that he had died. But there was no way you could convince thousands of Jamaican people that this wasn’t a hoax by the government, because in their own imaginations he had transcended DS: Did...