Search Results for otherness

... in their 1977 beguine, “Macoumè,” how the term macoumè ( makoumè ) had come to represent a particular queering of masculinity and otherness in the French Caribbean centered around the notion of “being less than” or “too much of” (in other words, notions of lack and excess) in a space where colonization had...

... and an observed otherness attitude among Dutch Caribbean intellectuals. 77 Gary Wilder, Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2015), 2, 12, 15. 76 Bonilla, “Ordinary Sovereignty,” 164. 75 Ibid., 35. 74 Eric Williams...

... republican values, it would have to be rid of both fascism and colonialism as entwined ills. All seven women took up citizenship, in various ways, as a critical tool to achieve this end. The idea of citizenship, so often constraining and wielded by nation-states as a cudgel to keep out undesirable others...

...—newspaper fragments and transcription from other books and colonial sources—combined with snippets of autobiographical accounts. The book is then augmented by notes describing a series of political upheavals that alarmed the Dutch colonial authorities, along with accounts of the author’s brief stay...

... differently if greater attention is paid to the Dutch Caribbean. The essays included in the section demonstrate the shifting role that De Kom and his book have played—from the 1930s and the anxieties they created for the colonial state; to their international impact on other revolutionary movements...

...Lewis R. Gordon This response essay addresses anti-Blackness and other fears of Black consciousness through discussing analyses and critiques of the author’s Fear of Black Consciousness (2022) offered by Nathalie Etoke, Terrence L. Johnson, and André Brock. Concepts under discussion include bad...

... and an ethics of solidarity fully cognizant of our distinctive paths. In August this year (2024), I had the great honor and inestimable pleasure of participating in an occasion titled “Other Universals: Theorizing from Postcolonial Locations on Politics and Aesthetics.” The gathering, which took place...

...Nadève Ménard Régine Jean-Charles’s Looking for Other Worlds: Black Feminism and Haitian Fiction (2022) is part of a refreshing trend in Haitian studies of books that center a Haitian perspective. This review essay takes the liberty of offering reflections toward an alternate coda. What kind...

... about otherness and difference constituted in relation to the universal unmarked category of the West. Second, that this relation between anthropology and alterity can be fully exposed only by tracing the historical emergence of the West through its imaginative and material relations with others...

... to literature to help us see the continuities and ruptures between the past and the present. Staceyann Chin's memoir, The Other Side of Paradise , suggests how the subject positions that largely occupy her in the narrative (mixed-race Jamaican, sexual “deviant,” unwanted child) bear echoes of the treatment...

... the outsider in the region. Focusing primarily on Indians, the essay explores the tropes of the “home and the world” in which “otherness” emerges as metaphors in the fictional works of Rabindranath Tagore's The Home and the World which resonates in V.S. Naipaul's A House for Mr. Biswas . The `Other...

... fractalization of civil rights based forms of domestic social order, and equally, the new minoritarian condition of whiteness, provide apposite bases from within which to rethink race politics in an age of failed states. Small Axe Inc. 2009 Whiteness as War by Other Means: Racial Complexity in an Age...

... look like outside of the search for national sovereignty? I will admit this was a somewhat self-indulgent interrogation, rooted in my own frustrations with political life in Puerto Rico, where I felt that the obsession with political status had become an obstacle to the pursuit of other agendas...

... Germaine, Evangeline, and Other “Negro Girls”: Rudy Burckhardt’s Caribbean Peter James Hudson James Weldon Johnson once recalled Port-au-Prince as “the finest city of all the Latin- American seaports” that he had seen.1 Few others have echoed his claim. Instead, Haiti’s...

... in Europe, is interpellated into the position of white other, or “whitey,” as she is called on the streets. It argues that McGilchrist's art constitutes a poetics or a “how” of stepping into and negotiating white identity as a place of recognition. The essay explores McGilchrist's visual engagement...

..., the nation, and other collective ensembles to critique the failure of patriarchy, racist nationalism, classism, and heterosexism in the novel's postcolonial context. Although Condé's transnational intervention does not provide an alternative model in the sense of a stable structure, the politics of crossing...

... demand a close consideration of the relationship between conquest, othering, racialization, commodification, and the reordering of the animal world with human animals as supreme beings. The contemporary reappropriation of the term alludes to a decolonial reframing, a unique opportunity to reject Western...

... of animality, and second, that we consider how in refusing the demarcating line between humanity and animality they potentially remake each other. Centering “animality” as an analytic, the author considers the kinds of relations that animality allows us to imagine with ourselves and each other. The essay...