...Timothy J. Reiss This essay tracks Kamau Brathwaite’s life, his poetic and critical writing, and his travails and thinking, from youth and early career—in Barbados, England, Ghana, and the Caribbean, but mainly from his arrival at New York University in 1991—through his retirement in 2013...

... , reprenant à leur compte le corpus de la négritude, met en avant, en son sein, une communauté de vue sur l’Afrique. Partant de ce constat et pour illustrer les changements intervenus, en Haïti, dans les représentations de l’Afrique, cet cet essai critique de There Is No More Haiti: Between Life and Death...

...Greg Beckett In this essay, anthropologist Greg Beckett responds to Rivke Jaffe’s, Nadège T. Clitandre’s, and Jhon Picard Byron’s critical engagements with his 2019 ethnography, There Is No More Haiti: Between Life and Death in Port-au-Prince . Beckett discusses issues of representation and form...

...Rivke Jaffe This review essay enters into conversation with Greg Beckett’s 2019 There Is No More Haiti: Between Life and Death in Port-au-Prince to think through the geographies and temporalities of how crisis is known. Focusing on the urban Caribbean, it interrogates broadly circulating...

...Nadège T. Clitandre Examining Greg Beckett’s 2019 There Is No More Haiti: Between Life and Death in Port-au-Prince , this critical essay explores the notion of radical hope in the midst of tragedy and crisis in Haiti. It attempts to reframe the idea of hope from the perspective of a Haitian...

... Katherine McKittrick’s and Sylvia Wynter’s work on plantation geographies, the author argues that the gulley, a site of mass burial in the center of the song, was also a site of Black cultural expression and futurity—a place where death and life, torture and escape, enslavement and freedom collided...

... not only the resilience of anti-Blackness that conditions what it feels like to be Black but also what Katherine McKittrick calls the “iterations of Black life that cannot be contained by black death.” [email protected] © 2022 by Small Axe, Inc. 2022 coloniality racialization liberal...

... of the exhibitions Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou (1995) and In Extremis: Death and Life in Twenty-First-Century Haiti (2012). In her commitment to support the creative endeavors of artists living in historically marginalized communities in urban Haiti, Houlberg blurred cultural and professional boundaries, raising...

... of debt, and the dialectics of life and death in capitalist modernity and moves on to assessing its radical politics of decolonization and decoloniality. Zambrana observes that since the global crisis of the 1970s, Puerto Rico’s status as a “tax haven” facilitated a long-term process...

... See Greg Beckett, There Is No More Haiti: Between Life and Death in Port-au-Prince (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2019). 17 “Les morts de dimanche sont sur la conscience de toute la société haïtienne”; “Ils devraient . . . nous hanter tous”; Frantz Duval, “Des Haïtiens meurent...

... symbolic codes of life and death. The issue of material provisioning remains an indispensable but only proximate mechanism for a comprehensive explanation of human behaviors, since capitalism, Wynter argues, serves the central function of instituting and verifying our present conception or genre of being...

... provided a way to examine the life worlds of populations only barely discernable in the archives of states, churches, and commercial enterprises. But I thought that rather than distilling cultures of death from a long and turbulent history, I might see the beliefs...

..., calling attention to the damage done to women. The phallic bones in Bone Yard wag, flaunting their masculine power, but death, burial, and the end/beginning are part of the journey. From the ashes of the Phoenix, we leap into life and go home...

... Garden is a commendable desire to restore to the unrecorded slave casualties of a monstrous system a dignity in death not afforded in life. Occasionally his anger boils over, as when he notes that the planter mil- lionaire Simon Taylor has left no legacy in Jamaica except a memory...

... a lifeline. Access to that land was the difference between life and death for enslaved people and their families. Labor in sugarcane fields was backbreaking and seemingly endless, with many plantations operating on murderous twenty-four-hour work cycles during crop time that allowed only six hours of “rest...

.... 112727 PD: Certainly, the element of the transformative is refl ected in Redemption Song. In what other ways were you guided by questions of life, death, and change as refl ected in the monument? ssmallmall aaxexe LFC: Redemption Song began with the belief that I personally...

... imperia and a mythopoetic historical consciousness that is based, at least in part, on the life-death-rebirth cycle of African spirituality. The idea of the past as a series of milestones is here supplanted by an esoteric counternarrative, in which history “is not felt as an itemized terrain...

... through representations of life, death, and “zones of nonbeing” that the extradition order for Christopher “Dudus” Coke made painfully—inter/nationally—visible once again. 8 Our project is geared toward providing a platform for a public memorialization of those who were killed as the Jamaican security...

... talks about the Jamaican preoccupation with blood, spelled blud : “There is a rampant ‘ blud culcha ’ thriving on the cycle uv life + death uv Jamaicans[,] … closely cunnected 2 the pulsing ‘spirit’ + ‘sex’ culcha.” She sees blood as both sacred and profane and says the use of red in her painting stems...

..., “Openings: Leslie Hewitt,” Artforum , February 2010, 184–87. 6 For an important account of how antiblackness matters to the construction of life, death, and civil society in the West, see Lewis Gordon, Bad Faith and Antiblack Racism (Amherst, NY: Humanity, 1999). 7 Mercer borrows...