...Petrina Dacres Small Axe Incorporated 2004 Monument and Meaning Petrina Dacres he arts can act in contradictory ways: as a means of socialization, as a vehicle for political expression, or as a site for mobilization. In the public-historical sphere visual arts...

...Narda Graham Small Axe Incorporated 2004 Whose Monument? The Battle to Define, Interpret, and Claim Emancipation Narda Graham INTRODUCTION he controversy surrounding Laura Facey Cooper’s monumental sculpture Redemp- tion Song exposed many schisms present in Jamaican...

...Susan Mains Small Axe Incorporated 2004 Monumentally Caribbean: Borders, Bodies, and Redemptive City Spaces Susan Mains Notwithstanding that radio, television and newspapers widely serve the island, we may not deceive ourselves to think that very great numbers of Jamaicans...

...Petrina Dacres Political monuments in Europe played an important role in the construction of national traditions and as spectacles of governmental power in the nineteenth century. But while the genre of the heroic statue had waned in Europe and America by the 1960s, it was an important convention...

..., presumably Taino chieftain Anacaona, on the pedestal base, writing words of praise to the admiral, who stood atop the monument. This essay explores how Anacaona’s racialized and gendered body symbolically validated a public nationalist discourse, while arguably erasing the roles that Blacks and Indigenous...

... moments: Black Power and Black Nationalism at the end of the 1960s and into the '70s; the political monumentalization of Césaire in Martinique between the late 1970s and his ninetieth-birthday celebration in 2003; and the creation of two book series to serve as cultural intermediaries—CARAF Books and New...

... concrete— buildings, dead bodies, censuses, monuments, diaries [and] political boundaries” (29). But it was the Haitian poet and statesman Hérard Dumesle’s 1824 Voyage dans le nord d’Hayti; ou, Révélations des lieux et des monuments historiques that had provided Trouillot with a concrete example...

... a male and female facing each other with their heads tilted upward. Th e twoL nude fi gures are positioned centrally in a pool of water that cascades over a rounded base. Since the monument’s unveiling, it has garnered much discussion and debates on public representation. Indeed, it has become...

... and international media regarding the prolonged public debate about the meaning of Redemption Song, Laura Facey Cooper’s dubious monument to the 1838 emancipation of enslaved Afri- Icans in Jamaica. Inevitably, there is some repetition, as my argument is elaborated in a variety of contexts and media...

... 119 DISCUSSION FORUM: REDEMPTION SONG, LAURA FACEY COOPER’S EMANCIPATION MONUMENT An Interview with Laura Facey Cooper Petrina Dacres 125 Monument and Meaning Petrina Dacres 137...

... to leave the memory of slavery and the trade behind). Controversy also reigned over Jamaica’s plans to hold a national ancestral funeral rites ceremony at Kingston Harbor and erect monuments to the dead ancestors at three places: in Montego (on the site of some of the hangings after the 1831–32...

...-present power of colonialism by toppling or defacing monuments commemorating colonial political and military figures. In the French Caribbean islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique, demonstrators toppled statues of three individuals that to them proved representative of their struggles with enslavement...

... become teachers. The GPI has not positioned itself as a monument to struggles now past, nor has it set out to excavate a world no longer present. The archive is proffered to counter “cultures of hiatus,” to affirm a sense of momentum, using the past to inform horizons of the possible. This is seen...

...Amour Colère Folie ( Love Anger Madness ) : A Temporary Monument to Resistance , 2013. Painted wood, barriers, and fences, with vinyl digital-graphic appliqués; 900 × 900 × 500cm. Place de L'Abbé Grégoire, Fort-de-france, BIAC Biennale internationale d'art Contemporain Martinique ...

... sculptor whose work spans forty years. She was trained at the Jamaica School of Art. Her controversial Redemption Song is a monument to slave emancipation, commissioned by the government of Jamaica in 2002. Also significant among her works is Their Spirits Gone before Them (2006), an installation...

... monumental size, the forcefulness of its narrative, its penetrating gaze, or its heroic narrative. Such descriptions are continually associated with European art and with, as Chave notes, the work of white male artists.⁶ Awai and Boddie’s Fanonian approach to this history...

... that Enwezor said than the disruptive situation of the curated assembly within the space of one of the great monuments to Nazi architecture repurposed as a monument to contemporary art. Its paradoxical, decentering prescience made one aware of the subtle sense of Enwezor’s contemporariness, his untimely...

... early investigations into wrought iron burglar bars in the late 80s. About the Rostrum: 08/04/02 Am I talking about “participation” and its terms and conditions? Was I thinking about being victorious . . . about ideas of history and of the monumental being limited...

... Even tho. in this iconic monument there is no absolute <7, 18 december 2013> Mandela's Release, 1990 . Photograph by Graeme Williams. Used by permission. Mandela's Release, 1990. Photograph by Graeme Williams. Used by permission. ...