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...Kelly Baker Josephs Derek Walcott's Dream on Monkey Mountain (1967) places emphasis on the connections between what Walcott terms the “given minds of the principal characters,” their possible madness, and their ambiguous dreams. Walcott takes full advantage of the dramatic form to explore madness...

...Ifeona Fulani Small Axe Incorporated 2003 Elephant Dreams Ifeona Fulani ast night I dreamed of fl ying again and woke up feeling restless. I got out of bed, fi x e d s o m e c o ff ee, and sat by the kitchen window, gazing at the sky. . e morning was fi ne for the time...

...” here, I turn to a more unusual context: its intertextuality with Sigmund Freud's 1900 magnum opus, The Interpretation of Dreams . I offer my critical rethinking of Benjamin's work with this in mind: writing about translation, as Benjamin's essay reveals, may be most useful as a kind of experimental...

...Louis Chude-Sokei In the African diaspora, Jamaica is one of the primary spaces where the discourse of racial or cultural roots becomes sutured to technology and where the political legacies of race, slavery, and imperialism become enshrined in the public sphere of popular music alongside dreams...

... organizing that has accompanied and facilitated the massive decentralization of capital accumulation worldwide. What distinguishes this Caribbean-basin form of regionalism from earlier forms is its dream of membership in the international community and its brokers' circulation on the world stage...

... in the haunted dream of Pa as the residual aspect of “my people” and the characters’ negative feelings toward it. Finally, taking Trumper’s Pan-African vision of “my people” as an emergent cultural form, the author analyzes how the novel shows the ways in which the form falls short of what Lamming identifies...

...Régine Michelle Jean-Charles In response to the various review essays, this essay ponders the afterlives of Looking for Other Worlds: Black Feminism and Haitian Fiction (2022) by reflecting on the presence and absence in Caribbean literature of Haitian girls’ dreams for the future. The author...

...Katerina Gonzalez Seligmann The West Indies Federation, like the Confederación Antillana from the nineteenth century, was structured by a tension between the dream of a future Pan-Caribbean nation and the prospect of a sovereign archipelagic political body that would exceed the scope of the nation...

... to hide discomfort, while All I had was nakedskin and helpless tears (“my mummy no longer free to wander, Only to wait, to want in secret, and at six o’clock they close the doors and my dark polished wood-world keeps me awake with sad dreams: “I want my mummy!” I dream...

... and bringing me back, no doubt full of treasures and dreams. small axe 19 • February 2006 • p 100–105 • ISSN 0799-0537 SX19 • February 2006 • Scherezade García V. | 101 Scherezade García V. Salvation serie, watercolor on paper, 30 × 22 inches (1998...

.... In the following exchange, for example, Rochester describes how Antoinette imagines England as a bleak dream. In response, Rochester asserts that the beauty of the Caribbean feels just as strange to him: “Is it true,” she said, “that England is like a dream? Because one of my friends who married an Englishman...

... to Haiti to participate in fundraising for recovery and relief efforts. Among them was Oprah Winfrey, who, in an episode of Oprah’s Next Chapter that focuses on Haiti, asks, “Is it wise to be a Haitian girl and have big dreams?” Winfrey poses this question not to an actual Haitian girl but to the owners...

... settle for that minimal transport; we must dream and enact new and better pleasures, other ways of being in the world, and ultimately new worlds. —José Esteban Muñoz, Cruising Utopia In the face of political despondency and mourning, dreaming is a revolutionary act; it is the premise...

... lived, truly there is nothing original here today—man, this tale old suh tail is the same thing so many men name Martin saw, and fought is a muzzling of mouths by food or fire or fear is the same dark time is the same man of death is the same aim trying to kill ya dream while...

... the bushes by the road and have watched her on the cracked steps of their homes and in their panting dreams feel something they cannot put into words, and it is a feeling like chopping a coconut with an old cutlass: hitting it, harder, harder, shaking it and hearing the water inside, smelling the sweet...

..., or if she should turn her back and walk to the end of the road that bring her there. The truth is no choice make the going any easier is just that one road you know and the other is a dream you have to make, give it a name and watch it grow into something. One thing you teach me is that a person have...

..., charging very little money, to every and anybody who needed her services.”5 In the preface of From Harvey River, Goodison signals her intention to rework the sewing trope: in a dream she sees her deceased mother ensconced in a celestial workroom as seam- stress, “in charge...

... to remember: “We are in middle of the Caribbean Sea and . . . it is impossible to remain indifferent to the aspirations and even dreams which are taking shape around us.”6 The open insularity of St. Thomas can be construed as an instance of the Glissantian poetics of delay, detour...