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...Kelly Baker Josephs Derek Walcott's Dream on Monkey Mountain (1967) places emphasis on the connections between what Walcott terms the “given minds of the principal characters,” their possible madness, and their ambiguous dreams. Walcott takes full advantage of the dramatic form to explore madness...

...Mark Ramsay © Small Axe, Inc. 2016 1. Green monkeys have the tiniest hands. The mother grasps the hanging mango with leathery newborn fingers, wrapping her toddler-sized mouth around the skin. An infant straddles her chest, watching you like a dashboard bobblehead, its lazy stare...

.... Old assumptions about the intellectual capacities of African peoples still have currency. If, for example, the tongues of the multilingual Africans who were forcibly transported to the Americas were recognized as languages and not as “monkey talk,” the Caribbean Creoles that derived, in part, from...

..., Delirium, and Decolonization in contents Derek Walcott’s Dream on Monkey Mountain Kelly Baker Josephs 17 Circuits of Political Prophecy: Martin Luther King Jr., Peter Tosh...

...Mark McWatt Small Axe Incorporated 2006 From “The Museum of Love” Mark McWatt The speaking voice in this excerpt is the spirit of a young boy born into the last years of slav- ery who was shot dead in a mango tree (mistaken for a monkey—according to the overseer who shot him from...

... (the next day, we’d brush out the inevitable ants). But best, we loved the scaffold our father left standing out back, its solid steel perfect for playing pirate ship, monkey bars and mansions alike...

... and state. If to the chagrin of some black diaspora experts from the United States signifying monkeys have not often been sighted on Hispaniola, then ciguapas most certainly have. 29 Though not unlike the trickster figures throughout the black diaspora in the Americas that “symboliz[e] the essence...

... of your game, he turned the game itself on its head. He demonstrated contempt not only for a particular play or specific ruling but for the whole game. That is what going on bad involves. It says, “Take your cricket ball and stick it where the monkey stuck the nut. I’m not playing...

... merely replacing one dogma for another, black dog for monkey, offering the theoretical privilege of intellectualism in place of the mechanical vacancy of activism. Rather, he was urging a new conception of intellectual action that displaced the reductivism of this recurring binary. What was at stake...

... than rational. This vision of transnational media influence offered by the novel is not one of Americanization and “monkey see, monkey do” brainwashing—what is called the “magic bullet theory” of strong and direct influence in mass media studies—but rather something akin to George Gerbner’s cultivation...

... Yi Dionne, “Thousands of Students Marched on South Africa's Parliament Wednesday,” Washington Post online, 21 October 2015, www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2015/10/21/thousands-of-students-marched-on-the-gates-of-south-africas-parliament-today-heres-how-you-can-learn-more . 6...

... liberatory possibilities of the Enlightenment were not meant 5. Derek Walcott, “What the Twilight Says,” Dream on Monkey Mountain (New York: Noonday Press, 1970), 14. 6. Susan Buck-Morss, “Hegel and Haiti,” Critical Inquiry, no. 26 (Summer 2000): 835–36. 20 to be applied in Caribbean...

...). As if in agreement with Wheatley's image of a “ Pagan land,” Cudjoe suggests that the Middle Passage was a path to civilization: Talk 'bouten Africa, we would be deh till now, Maybe same half-naked—all day dribe buccra cow, An' tearin' t'rough de bush wid all de monkey dem, Wile an' uncibilise', an neber...

... a multidirectional cultural traffic distinguishes creolization from the unidirectionality of assimilation. Cristina García s novel Monkey Hunting, for example, about the Chinese in Cuba, highlights the contributions of Chinese cuisine and spirituality to the island.19 On the other hand, assimilation more accurately...

... be forgiven if some wonder whether Haitians haven’t exchanged black dog for monkey (as Jamaicans say): the settled fi nalities and predictable brutalities of the dictatorship for the personal and political inse- curities and predatory appetites of the new grands mangeurss (big eaters) of the so-called...

... be forgiven if some wonder whether Haitians haven’t exchanged black dog for monkey (as Jamaicans say): the settled fi nalities and predictable brutalities of the dictatorship for the personal and political inse- curities and predatory appetites of the new grands mangeurss (big eaters) of the so-called...

..., Raya Dunayevskya and Grace Lee Boggs, and James), and his powerful intellectual interlocuters, intimate partners, and wives, Constance Webb and Selma James.77 Moreover, James s response to Caribbean women s writing was disappointing. He didn t think much of Merle Hodge s Crick Crack Monkey (1970), like...

... of Thomas’s work in which Thomas’s introduction of himself as having been “born of African parents” led to his being equated to a monkey and undercut “any claim to ‘objective,’ ‘neutral’ assessments of his intellectual production. . . . In bearing witness to his ‘African parents’ he...

...). 9 See Henry Louis Gates Jr., The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988). 8 Another way of expanding Cooper’s work beyond the heterosexism it was accused of would be to rethink “the bottom” or “bottoming” itself...

....” In their initial treatment, they simply cut him out. Their new arch-villain would have a pet marmoset, a miniature monkey, perched on his shoulders. The monkey would be called “Dr. No.” The producers vetoed this solution. 60 The writers continued to seek a menacing character they could understand...