... 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...

... , 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...

.... If that is the case, why call it a crisis at all? Doesn’t a crisis have a beginning and an end? Perhaps the word is not enough, but the underlying conceptual kernel behind the word—the sense of a stark situation that matters significantly to people, that might even be a matter of life and death—resonates with many...

... 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...

... 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...

...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...

..., 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. © 2013 by Small Axe, Inc. 2013 ...

... 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.” lawelcom@gmail.com © 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...

... disproportionately targets black and brown Torontonians. Those kinds of demands point to how the state shapes black life experience in ways that continually mark the thin line between life and death. Important for me, the actions of activist groups like BLM– TO open up an arena for rethinking how forms of black life...

..., it is never safe, never stable, but unpredictable and disrupted; it is therefore a complex place of life and death, of permanent re-creation and reinvention of the self that tries to determinate itself through the interweaving of the ambiguities of accommodation, as in a state of limbo governed...

..., it introduces the problem of afterlife or, more precisely, this “impensable mélange” (unthinkable mix) of life in death and death in life that is Chamoiseau's true subject (12). Chamoiseau uses Char's fragment to suggest that the beauty and import of a work is not a result of its continuing existence...

...—half child and half snake—whom she raised in secret and placed in a case. Athena seemingly wants to find out whether it is a symbol of life or death. The idiosyncrasies of Dionysus—the grapes, the hammer, the tiger—are in line with the relief in the background. On the upper left corner, Dionysus...

... prompts a decisive choice between alternatives. 10 Likewise, the climate crisis in the Caribbean is evidently a matter of life and death. And it is the grave character of the present that yearns for a new conceptual vocabulary. For this reason, Nelson Maldonado-Torres is cynical toward the diagnostic...

... immediately after the collision and in the five days of investigation and medical treatment until her death, a record was created, and Estrea’s life and death were filed into the miscellaneous historical record of the US occupation of Haiti (1915–34). Her existence was immediately transformed into texts...

...: Paradigm, 2006), 123–24. 25 Clyde Woods, “Life after Death,” Professional Geographer 54, no. 1 (2002): 62–66; Laura Pulido, “Rethinking Environmental Racism: White Privilege and Urban Development in Southern California,” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 90, no. 1 (2000): 12–40...

... Bronx, there are details of her life and mostly of her death that lend themselves to the association with El Barrio. For example, she worked in East Harlem when she wrote for Pueblos Hispanos , whose offices were located there. And, most significant, she died there. In the end, it is her death...