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...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...

... and introducing audi- ences to the cultural rituals of the enslaved, including slave funerals. I recall how amused my students were when they first heard Ebenezer’s funeral sermon, “Dea Belubbed.”3 It was a period in which controversy reigned over the plans to observe the bicentennial (with many wanting...

... . . . the funeral . . . can’t afford to feed myself. Face down . . . hot street, ma’am . . . an we know the bwoy . . . grow side a we...

... was a goddess. His funeral was the mystical reunion with the earth. He created on the plot a folk culture—the basis of a social order.” 25 It is no surprise, then, that this was the space that Berryman envisioned as the locus of enslaved family life. One of the only pieces in his archive that includes...

... that pronouncement had really never belonged to her at all. She walked through the doors, pulled out her cell phone, and called her contact at the funeral home. “I'm done … Everything's signed and they'll have the paperwork ready for you when you reach— … No. No, I can't wait. I'll come tomorrow to settle things...

... attempt to appropriate the community’s history for governmental purposes. Shortly after Ella’s arrival, Mammy dies, and at her funeral Ella has visions and goes into convulsions. The black community in this rural parish, including Ella’s soon-to-be-husband Reuben (also a student...

... are to be wed. Modibe’s involvement recovers the indentured African from invisibility in previous writings on Morant Bay, such as Reid’s New Day . After Modibe’s death, Maud is asked to lead the funeral procession, a sequence that resembles the tradition of kumina that in interviews Brodber associates...

... SX55 [ 3.2018 ] 153 Figure 7. Cupids Cay Funeral; Governor’s Harbour, Eleuthera, circa 1950s 154 [ Roland Rose ] In Transition: The Bahamas at Mid-Century SX55 [ 3.2018 ] 155...

..., knowing of my long friendship with Kamau, had sent me in consolation and fellowship. I agreed to deliver the eulogy and, searching for what I knew I wanted to say amid the rubble of all that I had already written on Kamau’s work, I awaited news about the structure of the “Official Funeral.” This news...

... adopted her as one of their own.” 2 She notes the funeral wreath of flowers the women made in her honor, on which they had spelled her name in English: “Susan.” Ugochukwu describes how the women, who sought to celebrate their friend’s life and passage into the other world by drinking, laughing...

... matter-of-factly exploring possibilities for a post-ELA Puerto Rico. 25 During this period many began to talk openly about “la muerte del ELA” (the death of the commonwealth). This was accompanied by staged funeral processions, the display of Puerto Rican flags recast in black and white...

... with copies of his splendid study Pathfinder: Black Awakening in “The Arrivants” of Kamau Brathwaite . 10 A week later on 21 February, the day of Kamau’s funeral, I put on tidalectical blue in keeping with my emotions; I was feeling blue as I made my way to James Street Methodist Church in Bridgetown...

...: going for gold (3)—Roshini Kempadoo, April 2000 Page 238 Virtual Exiles: from the edge (4)—Roshini Kempadoo, April 2000 Page 239 (Photographs top from left to right) Courtesy of the Fr. Darke Archives, Georgetown, Guyana—circa 1970s Walter Rodney’s funeral 1980—courtesy of WPA archives...

... Busshead Hardhead , 2024. Figure 6. “Free.”. / Still from the video Busshead Hardhead, 2024. The wax story blocks ( figs. 7 – 10 ): The story blocks are inspired by Robinson’s poem “The Plural of Me.” In this poem he makes a funeral wish for his cremains to be gifted to his friends, family...

... were our true competitors in strength and size, but their chief, Lafaille Hans, died a week ago. He spent the night dancing, ate a little mango, and dropped dead. All the Lanceurs de Corde from the town, hundreds of us, went to the funeral and did a performance...

... and funeral for Vaval, the huge papier-mâché effigy that represents the spirit of Carnival on the island. On Ash Wednesday, when the focus of the celebration shifts to Vaval's effigy, it also shifts to the big debates of the day. The creators, through forms of exaggerated parody, craft each year's Vaval...

... of Mourning in Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá’s Funereal Chronicles,” Centro Journal 25, no. 1 (2013): 213. 44 “Una fuerza liberadora”; Carlos Monsiváis, Los rituales del caos (Mexico City: Era, 1995), 16. 45 For a different take on the Puerto Rican government’s language of resilience...

... her husband. When she was a child, she'd once slept the whole night with a garden lizard under the blanket. It had made her feel ill to think of the lizard heating up from her warmth. The casket will go to the funeral home, she heard him say, I'm signing the papers to release the body to the funeral...

... on a low base. My effigies, although made with various fabrics coming from different regions of the world, did not exude much humanity. I found them rigid and the end result did not satisfy me. In successive steps, I reduced them to the format of a funeral doll, katchina-like, the number...

... in the presentation of this event was the emphasis placed on French agency, to the detriment of an appreciation of the importance of Césaire as a poet and politician: the focus continually came back to the state funeral, to the attempt to “pantheonize” Césaire, and even to the changing of the airport’s name...