...—as an old civilization of quaint ruins, a place to spend good money, and a world to mock and sneer at for its supine dependence on the United States it so helplessly despises. In 1946, the esteemed existentialist philosopher Karl Jaspers published a short book titled (in its 1947 English translation...

.... 14 Baldwin, “The White Problem,” 76. 13 Jaspers, The Question of German Guilt , 64. 12 See Michel-Rolph Trouillot, “Unthinkable History: The Haitian Revolution as a Non Event,” in Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History (London: Beacon, 1997), 70–107. 11...

... painterly abstraction and personal origin is retained but opened up onto a much larger field of potential signification. Although the use of maps as signifiers in paintings of the era already had some precedents in the work of Jasper Johns and Larry Rivers, Bowling's use of the motif was a deliberate...

... white American artist Jasper Johns as well as contemporary practitioners like Trinidadian artist Christopher Cozier and Jamaican-American pho- tographer Lauri Lyons. When Johns s now iconic painting the fl ag of the United States of America, Flag (1954 1955), was fi rst shown in the late 1950s, the work...

... that, the West Indies are not like that. Th ey have a dif- ferent attitude to the world; because their whole historical and material experience has been diff erent. But Heidegger, in my opinion, and Jaspers and Sartre, are aware that the European preoccupation or acceptance of the material basis...

... refrained from any involvement in the filming of Dr. No after the legal disputes over Thunderball ; see John Pearson, The Life of Ian Fleming Creator of James Bond (1966; repr., London: Pan, 1967), 395–97. However, Fleming had already suggested recruiting Berkley Mather (a pen name of Lt-Col. Jasper...