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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...

... on Hernández’s use of the space, her way of speaking, and her way of following a recipe, that this is where sabor resides. By reclaiming life in Yauco’s mountainous area and sharing her ongoing practice of the space through cooking, Hernández shows that sabor is a fugitive practice. Its unnamability is precisely...

... of the Maroons in the mountains and maroonage elsewhere, along with their world-historical agency in shaping or dictating the contours of the Western Hemisphere over the past five hundred years. The first half of “Black Metamorphosis” is arguably dominated by chapters concerning antislavery revolt...

... touches your shoulder, but you shrug out of his grip. “Mount Hillaby is not a real mountain,” you say, turning back to the winding trail. The dirt path is rubbed raw by foot traffic. You can see splashes of red clay beneath the soil. Topher doesn't reply. You wonder if he has already grown tired...

... connects the destruction of the mountainsides, through deforestation and mining, to the construction of the city. He mourns the sight of white limestone quarries where soil and trees previously covered the hillsides—exposing “the mountains’ bones ( zo )” (209)—and notes how the city’s concrete structures...

...Figure 5 William Berryman, “Ludlow, Clarendon Mountains, McLean Attorney, Murray Overseer, Murdoc Engineer, steam engine first erected April 1815,” c.1808–16; watercolor, ink, and pencil. LC-2010651425 ...

... with water coming down from the red mud mountain. But we make it. I remember hearing that soon after we passed the bridge, river come down and take over the road. So that was Flora and 1963. The radio did warn us, I believe, but nobody was taking it too seriously. The record books...

... to despise, their own productions.” Trollope observed that, “When yams, avocado pears, the mountain cabbage, plantains, and twenty other delicious vegetables may be had for the gathering, people will insist on eating bad English potatoes.”10 In The Middle Passage Naipaul also reproduced...

..., in the distance, like a fishing line grown taut with the pull of some behemoth within its depths the rocky outcrop like a gaping bowl The trees stooped like ancient women mounting the mountain's stony side the sluggish river lugging its way through the mangrove snaking its way across the beach to brood...

..., in anchoring them in the native land so they could explore elsewhere, Victor Anicet played a fundamental role in forming the group. In Victor Anicet’s living room, on the Tartenson9 Mountain, Saturday afternoons were full of activity. As they returned to the country, the young...

... Revolution to the exiled and isolated fi gure of Toussaint Louverture, imprisoned in the snowbound Fort de Joux in the Jura mountains: What is mine A man alone imprisoned in whiteness A man alone who defi es the white screams of white death (Toussaint, Toussaint Louverture) a man alone...

... crab: the colour of eyes, a blue flame, of shallow water, reckless with the foreigner’s lust to touch this sour eden, its tumble of crystal mountain water, the serpent brown...

...—broken branches, stones, but some had machetes. By the light of their flambeaus, they confronted the house, its windows staring like vacant eyes. That afternoon the drums echoed like musket shot through the surrounding mountains. A meeting was to take place; there was enough rum for everybody...

... . . . but it’s worked out good for me. It saved my life. I’m at peace here, and my family seems to have made peace with me” (DB, 103). Aunt Estina takes Dany and Claude “under her wing,” and they are embraced as part of an extended family of “cousins,” since “there are no strangers in these mountains” (DB...

... grounds become a practice of freedom through black thought and creativity. B. W. Higman points out that the mountainous terrain of Jamaica resisted sugar production and thus allowed the creation of provision grounds on land unsuitable for large-scale commodity production. 19 Provision grounds were...

..., and let grass green weave a chest that unweaves into a mountain: La Cordillera Occidental breathing silver mist over Puerto Plata. Miseria is a carnival with out stoplights where a lone policeman in colonial khaki is casi atropellado by fugues of motorbikes donde...

... in the hungers, and in the fears, in the hatreds, in the ferocity, that burn in the hollows of the mountains.) 9 The lianas here are conjured as lifeforms with human attributes; their tips are like fingers and their movement is affective. They cling to the precipices as if to “charm” them, to create...

... you is a girl from Cherry Gardens who used to go Immaculate High. Me and this miss lady, we both come a far way from who we used to be, from open air veranda to high stool and AC. From calaloo, breadfruit, and mint tea to omelet and blue mountain coffee, which life was better? Maybe...

... wrote and told me so. She said this place London is like a cold dark dream sometimes. I want to wake up.” “Well,” I answered annoyed, “that is precisely how your beautiful island seems to me, quite unreal and like a dream.” “But how can rivers and mountains and the sea be unreal?” “And how can...