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...Carolyn Cooper Small Axe Incorporated 2006 At the Crossroads— Looking for Meaning in Jamaican Dancehall Culture: A Reply Carolyn Cooper In the introduction to Sound Clash: Jamaican Dancehall Culture at Large I make my position clear: In the present study I document...

... as object, the challenge to the authority of the photographer, and the field of vision. In other words, as Ariella Azoulay in her recent writings has proposed, we might focus on reading and engaging with imagery that “enables one to look at whatever is inscribed in the frame as not being a consequence...

...Nadève Ménard Régine Jean-Charles’s Looking for Other Worlds: Black Feminism and Haitian Fiction (2022) is part of a refreshing trend in Haitian studies of books that center a Haitian perspective. This review essay takes the liberty of offering reflections toward an alternate coda. What kind...

...Sandra Stephens The artist reflects on her place within the black/white color spectrum in Jamaica and the United States and looks at how she addresses both whiteness and blackness within her work. Using her piece Face of the Enemy , on the Japanese Internment, from her solo show Rationalize...

...Rajiv Mohabir This essay is a reading of Andil Gosine’s Nature’s Wild: Love, Sex, and Law in the Caribbean (2021) that thinks through the author’s contributions on LGBTQ+ history, art, and activism in the Caribbean. It begins with a look at how the animal is wielded discursively to deride queerness...

...Maziki Thame This essay looks at the place of race in Creole Nationalism in Jamaica. It asserts that Creole Nationalism is also Brown Nationalism in Jamaica and that its racial ideas can be seen through the thought of Norman Manley, the father of Creole Nationalism; his wife Edna, its cultural...

... (...) in the blue savannas of memory or imagination.” It seems that it is in these blue savannahs, in this synesthetic space, that the past comes to life. A closer look at André and Simone Schwarz-Bart's Un Plat de porc aux bananes vertes, a novel that itself has been largely side-stepped by traditional literary...

... of the publications from this period associated with the Manley family, the newspaper Public Opinion and the literary journal Focus , speaks to the alliance but also the cleavages between the political and the literary. It looks at Public Opinion 's publication history from its founding in 1937 through...

..., and race, it offers a narrative about postemancipation Jamaican males that looks beneath their masks to suggest how legacies of slavery are being played out through them in dynamic and queer ways. Jamaica's history is one that has always called for the Janus-faced accessory: a dressing up ritual...

... “specificity” but rather as a basis for such relation, offering a sophisticated poetic articulation of how an open community grounded not on identity but on strategic alliance might look. It is precisely in a moment of defeat, or failure, at a time defined by “living without an alternative,” that Texaco...

... jeremiads about how the settlement and exploitation of the Americas exemplified the darkness that is present in men's souls. Brown's vision of a Jamaica that looked like heaven but which was instead a hell on earth is compelling. I do wonder, however, whether in this hell there may have been some patches...

...Kaiama L. Glover In this essay I explore the generic limitations of the “Pour une littérature-monde en français” manifesto. Looking at certain of the document's structural and thematic stumbling blocks, I examine the essential dilemmas that reside at the heart of all postcolonial literary...

... of the artist. This essay looks closely at one collaborative and two solo works by Mario Benjamin to explore the impact that commissioning projects has had on the development of a body of contemporary Haitian art represented as focusing on localistic catastrophe. In each case, the essay juxtaposes against...

..., loudspeakers, words, and sounds become actants in this story. This essay looks at what difference they made in the waning moments of British rule in Jamaica and whether it might it be useful to attend to the role of sound in discussions of governance and colonial encounters. 52 JSWC, 2077: Guy's Hill...

... studies and their relationship to this contradiction, compares the deployment of culture and identity in Afro and Indo/Asian diaspora studies, and suggests that looking at the differences and compatibilities between material bodies (diasporic humans and their made objects) and immaterial bodies (diasporic...

... of theoretical essays. This article looks particularly at the strategies she uses to incorporate gender issues into her novel. Small Axe Incorporated 2008 The Hills of Hebron: Sylvia Wynter’s Disruption of the Narrative of the Nation Shirley Toland-Dix Ab s t r a c t : Sylvia Wynter’s 1962...