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...Rhonda Cobham-Sander Framed by the author’s three encounters with Maureen Warner-Lewis’s voice, this essay evaluates three aspects of her work: her commitment to pedagogical approaches that privilege orature; her commitment to research methodologies that privilege the language and history...

...Rhonda Cobham Small Axe Incorporated 2003 Fishers of Men: Catherine Hall’s Narrative and the Framing of History Rhonda Cobham ood history, like good literature, arrives trailing metaphor, which, like the fi sher- man’s seine in Dennis Scott’s poem “Letters to My Son VIII...

...Rhonda Cobham Faith Smith's analysis, in Creole Recitations , of the nineteenth-century scholar John Jacob Thomas's often contradictory allegiances offers us a way of reading the counterintuitively parallel career of the poet Eric Roach a century later. Roach is the subject of Laurence Breiner's...

... Rosenberg, Rhonda Cobham, and Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo indicate the infinite connections to be made with regard to John Jacob Thomas andhis world, as they explore the nuances of “transnational engagement” and recitations’ citations and situations. Their demonstration of the ways that Thomas’s...

... D’Costa, who was part of that first or second wave of Caribbean-born faculty and a pioneer in the study of Caribbean Creoles. 17 Rhonda Cobham-Sander has noted that when she was an undergraduate in the Department of English Studies at UWI Mona, her course on Anglo-Saxons was taught by Warner-Lewis...

...Catherine Hall Small Axe Incorporated 2003 Narratives of Empire: A Reply to Critics Catherine Hall et me fi rst thank Patrick Bryan, Rhonda Cobham, Madhavi Kale and Faith Smith for the time and trouble they have taken to think and write about Civilising Subjects. LI greatly...

... in the growth of the field itself. By recuperating “nothing,” Brodber helpfully unsettles understandings of influence, lineage, and tradition at a crucial juncture in the turn of Caribbean literature. Rhonda Cobham-Sander encapsulates this turn when she reflects on the coming of age of “the first generation...

... be interpreted by us; we do not know the truth of it. Our God was not the correct one, our understanding of heaven and hell was not a respectable one.” 22 In her reading of Kincaid's novel, Rhonda Cobham comments on the absence of a Caribbean gnosis, of a “a sanctioned code for articulating Caribbean...

... understand it.”7 In a similar vein, Rhonda Cobham observes how it explores “the kinds of intellectual ideas commonly associated with ‘erudite’ writers like [George] Lamming, [Wilson] Harris and [Derek] Walcott.”8 Kevin Cryderman claims that “the book’s emphasis on theatricality as well as play...

... ADVISORY BOARD Edward Baugh Lloyd Best Kamau Brathwaite Erna Brodber Rhonda Cobham Locksley Edmondson Norman Girvan Stuart Hall Robert Hill George Lamming Kari Levitt Rupert Lewis Earl Lovelace Rex Nettleford Gordon Rohlehr Maureen Warner-Lewis Michael Witter Sylvia Wynter THE SMALL AXE...

... On my reading, Cobham's protagonist may or may not be concerned about imperial photographs of working-class Trinidadians, but as someone who has mastered the codes of the British gentleman, he ought to be have been recognizable to the countess as more than “native.” Rupert Gray is someone who is worth...

..., 1880–1902 (1991). He is also the coeditor (with Rupert Lewis) of Marcus Garvey: His Work and Impact (1988). rhonda cobham teaches Caribbean and African literature and postcolonial literary theory at Amherst College. She was guest editor of a special issue of Research in African Literatures...

... a limited presence in popular memory. Rhonda Cobham, in her interrogation of Morant Bay in Jamaican literature, argues that literature, the popular press, and folk tales kept the memory of 1865 alive with contradictory narratives or ideological persuasions. For example, H. G. de Lisser’s novel Revenge...

... • Jennifer Rahim | homosocial and homoerotic aspects, although these are directly implicated in the social and economic strategies of survival the women develop. Critics like Reinhard Sander and Rhonda Cobham both notice the novel’s typical genre-specific emphases on working-class Caribbean women...

..., and including a founding the editor Neustadt of Savacou International, Brathwaite Prize is for the Literature. recipient Among his most recent books are Ancestors (2001), MR (Magical Realism) (2002), Words Need Love Too (2004), Born to Slow Horses (2005), and Elegguas (2010). Rhonda Cobham...

... attachment to secularism shuts the spirits out.5 Here Alexander reminded me of both Val Carnegie’s recent study of transnational- ism, in which his own religious attachment is used to test his claims, and Rhonda Cobham’s reference to a colleague’s silences about her wrestling with the spirits in her...

... ADVISORY BOARD Edward Baugh Lloyd Best Kamau Brathwaite Erna Brodber Rhonda Cobham Locksley Edmondson Norman Girvan Stuart Hall Robert Hill George Lamming Kari Levitt Rupert Lewis Earl Lovelace Rex Nettleford Gordon Rohlehr Maureen Warner-Lewis Michael Witter Sylvia Wynter THE SMALL AXE...

... a collection of literary work and issued the first edition of Focus in December 1943. Focus, 37 In “The Creative Writer and West Indian Society: Jamaica, 1900–1950” (PhD diss., University of St. Andrews, 1982) Rhonda Cobham-Sander identifies Jacobs as “Y.O.Y.” Cobham-Sander also notices...

... Bogues Manager/ Edouard Duval Carrié Nadi Edwards Copyeditor Rhonda Cobham Annie Paul Kelly S. Martin Edwidge Danticat Locksley Edmondson Editorial Collective Translator/ Stuart...

..., Faith Smith ADVISORY BOARD Edward Baugh Lloyd Best Kamau Brathwaite Erna Brodber Rhonda Cobham Locksley Edmondson Norman Girvan Stuart Hall Robert Hill George Lamming Kari Levitt Rupert Lewis Earl Lovelace Rex Nettleford Gordon Rohlehr Maureen Warner-Lewis Michael Witter Sylvia...