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...Paget Henry Small Axe Incorporated 2002 Culture, Politics and Writing in Afro- Caribbean Philosophy: A Reply to Critics Paget Henry must begin by thanking Brian Meeks, Maureen Warner-Lewis, Patrick Goodin, and Claudette Anderson for taking the time to put down so clearly...

...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...

...Brent Hayes Edwards Small Axe Incorporated 2005 Pebbles of Consonance: A Reply to Critics Brent Hayes Edwards would like fi rst of all to thank Nadi Edwards, Michael Hanchard, T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, and Michelle Stephens for their thorough, provocative, and gener- Ious...

...Andrea N. Douglas Small Axe Incorporated 2004 Facing the Nation: Art History and Art Criticism in the Jamaican Context Andrea N. Douglas n the opening comments for the 2000 Annual National Exhibition, Michael Cooke, then director of museums for the Institute of Jamaica...

...Maja Horn This essay is a personal reflection on how Horn's scholarship on gender, sexuality, and performance in the hispanophone Caribbean has been shaped by the oeuvre of the late critical theorist José E. Muñoz. In particular, Horn compares and contrasts the uses of “hybridity” and “performance...

..., Politics, and The Caribbean Postcolonial Timothy Chin Shalini Puri’s The Caribbean Postcolonial: Social Equality, Post-Nationalism, and Cultural Hybridity represents a salutary critical intervention in several important respects. To begin with, Puri’s focus on Caribbean hybridities counters...

... West Indians the very language with which to articulate the problems of race in Caribbean nationalism. The kind of debate this book will engender among Caribbean historians and literary critics is sure to be productive for all of us who wrestle with questions of the origins of Caribbean...

... and history. Engaging with Ramírez's essay, Horn critically revisits her historical argument about how the Trujillo dictatorship (1930–61) and the preceding US occupation (1916–24) reshaped Dominican gender formations and masculinity in particular. In dialogue with Decena's essay, Horn discusses how...

... and Grenada, respectively—and with its inhabitants transformed the study. In this essay I will focus on the Grenada project to explain how and why a literary critic began to practice fieldwork; address the need to carve a space for fieldwork in literary-critical practice; and contribute to the development...

... the significance of its publication venue. Donnell attends to Baugh's own standing in the highly charged field of Caribbean literary criticism as a critic of both Walcott and Naipaul, and acknowledges his creative contribution to this field as a poet. She also considers how, in the years between the original...

...Nadi Edwards This reading of Edward Baugh's seminal 1977 essay highlights its contextual affiliations and affinities and its relation to an anglophone Caribbean critical discourse on the representation and significance of history. Nadi Edwards delineates the intellectual genealogy of the concept...

...Faith Smith Maureen Warner-Lewis’s extraordinary body of cultural criticism proposes a new temporal engagement with the place of the African continent in the Caribbean. Her work and career suggest some of the dispositions of the Mona Generation (UWI) of the mid-1960s to early 1970s. Read against...

...’ discussion examines the place of Carnegie’s work in relation to questions of Caribbean intellectual genealogies. They locate him multiply: as a student of the 1960s generation and as a scholar in his own right among a cohort of critics writing at the turn of the century. They also examine and reflect...

...Maja Horn This introduction traces critical concerns in Dominican gender and sexuality studies in the United States. It suggests applying a triangulated lens to the study of gender and sexuality, focusing not only on Dominican-Haitian cross-border and colonial relations but also on the role of US...

... (and beyond the content of their respective thinking), a certain intellectual temperament and style , a certain attitude to the calling of—the duty to live—a critical intellectual life. They were both intellectuals who responded not simply to an ideological or calculative reason for dissent...

...Jocelyne Guilbault In this essay, I focus on soca, a music that has been criticized by numerous journalists, academics, calypsonians, politicians, and listeners for not engaging the political. Instead of dismissing soca as a legitimate critical public discourse, I address soca in relation to its...

... but also a pithy commentary on the structure of the nation-state, meaning all nation-states, not only the polity of Haiti. The text was consequently misread by literary critics whose stereotype of Haitians and belief in nationalism influenced their mean-spirited dismissals of the novel. This paper rereads...

... is primarily an anglophone critical enterprise and area of study. The resulting “anglicization” of this important francophone figure overlooks, I argue, the ways in which Fanon's Martinican and francophone background is integral to his intellectual and political contributions and to his influence on later...

...Obika Gray It is now commonplace to lament the enervation of social thought and the passing of an important social figure—the critical, classical humanistic intellectual as a major actor in contemporary society. This elegy for polymath political leaders and for the presumed demise of theoretically...

...Aaron Kamugisha This article critically appraises the wealth of cultural criticism and epistemological developments in the study of Caribbean societies now increasingly grouped under an emerging discipline termed Caribbean cultural studies. It advances the claim that the critical study of Caribbean...