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...Wigmoore Francis Small Axe Incorporated 2003 Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century Perspectives on Women in the Discourses of Radical Black Caribbean Men Wigmoore Francis INTRODUCTION t work in the deliberations of black radical thinkers in the nineteenth- and early...

...Rhonda Cobham Small Axe Incorporated 2003 Fishers of Men: Catherine Hall’s Narrative and the Framing of History Rhonda Cobham ood history, like good literature, arrives trailing metaphor, which, like the fi sher- man’s seine in Dennis Scott’s poem “Letters to My Son VIII...

...Andrea Shaw Small Axe, Inc. 2010 Do Mad Men Fall in Love? Andrea Shaw After hearing the St. Cecilia bell, Sergeant hustled toward the sidewalk through the rubble and bush that surrounded his shack. He took his place near the front of the property, perched on top of a solitary...

... with shrapnel, full of tiny jagged holes. On his skin, a thousand nicks, neat and round, like bleeding measles. I look around me, furtive. No sign of anything, of birds, men, nothing. Must be some new guerrilla tactic, trained attack hawks or something. I scamper up, go to my brother. I lean over him...

..., is a deeply poignant and, as of yet, a generally unacknowledged part of his legacy. The Hearts of Men? Gender in the Late C. L. R. James Aaron Kamugisha A man s country may be cramped or vast according to the size of his heart. Simone Schwarz-Bart, The Bridge of Beyond You know, men don t really discuss...

... addressed the condition of what the author calls “troubled men,” marginalized figures deeply affected by brutal socioeconomic dispossession who appear either broken or as devising strategies to “live the good life.” This essay also redresses the invisibility of Días, who was more than a composer; he...

... wants more from life than what her intelligence and family can give her. She feels trapped by grandparents who are too old and unaware to be responsive to her needs; abandoned by her mother, Amalfi, who still lives in the Dominican Republic; and too mature to be with young men her age. Leila becomes...

... for articulating differences among Dominicans, among good and bad women, and among men.” 9 Considering this context, I am proposing that part of what made Montez such an “eccentric” personality was indeed conceptual—that she knowingly adopted certain eccentricities (as defined by the codes of the time...

... for loss, fragility, renewal, and resilience, to demonstrate how it is impossible to separate these dynamics from the way vulnerable women, still embedded in age-old dynamics, turn to powerful men for protection and healing, ironically from the hurt from other men, leading to further abuse...

..., thus helping to frame the book's relevance. Island Bodies draws attention to the sexed subject's embeddedness in notions of authenticity (within the Caribbean as well as in relation to first-world narratives of emancipation) and to the dominance of biological men in discussions of Caribbean sexualities...

...Rosamond S. King King responds to essays by noted scholars Faith Smith and Lisa Outar critiquing her 2014 book Island Bodies: Transgressive Sexualities in the Caribbean Imagination . In particular, she addresses the choice to examine interracial relationships between Caribbean men of color...

... 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...

...Marlene Daut; Karen Richman All Men Are Mad , by Philippe Thoby-Marcelin and Pierre Marcelin, is set during the antisuperstition campaign in Haiti, which was led by the French Catholic Church during the 1940s. The Marcelin brothers' novel was not only a devastating critique of religious persecution...

...Shirley Tate Reading Heading South as a decolonial romance reveals anxiety about the liminal location of young male citizens in 1970s Haiti caught within the necropower of state terror and US imperialism. Focusing on young men selling “romance” on the beach within the continuing colonial relations...

...” and developed in later essays, it examines the circulation of knowledge on gender and sexuality emanating from the crisis school. Highlighting the points of convergence found in government-sponsored policy studies, academic scholarship, and the newspaper column of a men's organization from Barbados, the essay...

...Patricia Noxolo In a discussion of Jovan Scott Lewis’s Scammer’s Yard: The Crime of Black Repair in Jamaica (2020), the book is considered as ethnography written from “inside the circle” (Sadiya Hartman) of a generation of young Black men brought up in Jamaica. Nonetheless, Lewis shows genuine...

... contribution lies in its focus on murals. The author argues that the physical and cultural landscape of Bristol, England, has been transformed through the creation of seven large-scale commemorative murals featuring noted men and women of the Windrush generation. The street murals comprising the Seven Saints...