... Regionalism which did not to secure political autonomy of the Provinces and became a mere illustration of their cultural and literary diversity, the failure of the Chamoiseau's campaign to preserve and liberate the martiniquan imaginary is almost inevitable. Ultimately, instead of asserting an national...

..., and what it means to think of the period as merely preceding the anglophone Caribbean's important political and cultural developments. © 2011 by Small Axe, Inc. 2011 “Only His Hat Is Left”? Resituating Not-Yet Narratives Faith Smith I am honored to have this kind of opportunity to revisit...

... tends to be mentioned as merely anecdotal. This essay argues that Yugoslavia represented an important detour for Césaire. Césaire’s friendship with Guberina and his discovery of Martinska allowed him to see how the particularity of his historical experience as a member of the African diaspora could also...

... greens and blues became muted and desaturated. The images selected for this photo essay were taken from a powerboat, with friends on board, during the first series of explosive eruptions that occurred that day. They are merely a snapshot of the larger project— The Beginning is the End and the End...

... of White power. Denial and bad faith are not mere features of this psychic life; rather, they are fundamental conditions for its continued refusal to acknowledge the epistemic and ontological dimensions of Black humanity. This discussion essay examines how Gordon allows us to see the blues as a musical...

... as political actors and not merely passive bystanders or martyrs. It then sketches, in the postdictatorship period, the emergence of new gender-focused organizations, NGOs, academic programs, and political quotas for women, foregrounding how, despite these advances, political and social gains have been uneven...

...Brenda Gayle Plummer This discussion of Peter James Hudson’s Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean focuses on the way transnational banks are revealed to be players of multiple roles in the development of past and present Caribbean economies. The banks were hardly mere...

... of French civilization through the lens of the magical or marvelous. Ultimately, this essay argues, Chemin-d’école looks beyond magical motifs as mere emblems of tradition or authenticity. Using them instead to portray the neocolonial “civilizing mission” as its own form of magical thinking, the narration...

...Marlon James Instead of dismissing skin bleaching, this photographic project's intention is to understand both the practice and the means by which a person would attempt to ascertain some kind of beauty where many saw none. Some proclaimed it was merely a fad; others felt it elevated...

...Daniel Benjamin This essay argues that M. NourbeSe Philip’s 2008 book-length poem Zong! offers aesthetic experience as an undetermined exposure toward communality. As readers, we are not merely consuming the poem, which emerges from Philip’s reading of a 1781 court decision regarding a slave...

...Figure 2 Merely a Chimera no. 42 ; digital print, 4 × 6 in. ...

... of some of these foreign experts should not itself be misinterpreted as evidence of a mere fit of pique, an attempt to jealously protect territorial borders from recolonizing invaders, armed this time round with laptops (11–12). In other words, Cooper aligns “foreign” analysis of dancehall...

... of threshold and recognizes in himself not merely a crude sense of justification or entitlement but potentially at least something larger if less tangible, something more profound but at the same time more uncanny and certainly more dangerous, namely, the individual realization and expression of embodiment...

... It is no mere coincidence that black Marxist thought has been central to many future-oriented projects, at least since the era of decolonization. Of considerable appeal has been, and in many ways remains, Marxism’s Enlightenment claim to a science whose objective analysis of class as the fundamental universal...

...”? But also, and inverting the normative direction of the relation between theory and its object, What is the “Jamaica” in relation to which “theory” is supposed to think? What “Jamaica” is at stake in any practice of theorizing Jamaica? Is “Jamaica” merely passive in relation to theory’s purposes...

... is merely a familiar Eurocentricity. To the contrary, it is argued, the origins of a universal human right of liberty are to be found in the Haitian Revolution—with, for example, Toussaint Louverture’s famous declaration from Camp Turel on 29 August 1793, when he first introduced himself...

... the distances between plain information, informed opinion, analytic interrogation, and sheer gossip were almost nonexistent; to him such distances were artificial boundaries. He moved fluidly among them all as though they were mere dimensions of a single epistemic order, fertile resources for the sole task...