... as “the peasant sensibility,” a Caribbean tradition of feeling toward the land. [email protected] © Small Axe, Inc. 2023 George Lamming Caribbean poetics affectivity Raymond Williams decolonization George Lamming’s complex rhetorical and aesthetic elaboration of the faculty...

... zones of St. Thomas. In modern times, they have branched out from their insular zones and merged their mores and folkways and their peasant and professional ways, on their gradual terms, with those of other ethnic Virgin Islanders, bringing themselves closer to Virgin Islands society as evidenced...

...J. Michael Dash This article challenges the notion of Haitian cultural exceptionalism, and the ways in which in the postindigenist era the peasant novel in general and Jacques Roumain's Gouverneurs de la rosée in particular became yardsticks for judging Haitian writing. Evoking contemporary...

... an urgent project. In Peasants and Capital (1988) he examines three units—the village, the world, and the nation—that offer us one way to connect these people and places to global concerns. This essay suggests that Trouillot's intervention might be productively extended if we take seriously the body and its...

... events that helped frame Caribbean culture, Lamming suggests, “The world met here, and it was at every level, except administration, a peasant world.” 1 I want to pay particular attention to Lamming’s notion that this Caribbean world was fundamentally a peasant world except at the level...

... Analysis , no. 19 (August 1986): 85–90. Review of Plantations Peasants and the State: A Study of the Mode of Sugar Production in Guyana , by Clive Y. Thomas. American Ethnologist 12, no. 4 (1985): 799–800. Review of Slave Populations of the British Caribbean, 1807–1834 , by B. W. Higman...

... in the back of sweltering tap-taps and in its hardscrabble peasant fields, one quickly realizes that the events that occurred during the long interims between these dramatic moments have also played a key role in determining the country’s history, perhaps even more so that the more...

... of abolition, and indenture: “A e world met here, and it was at every level, except administration, a peasant world. In one way or another, through one upheaval after another, these people, forced to use a common language which they did not possess on arrival, have had to make...

... the mono-crop export complex and its imported and imitative super-structure of culture to the only living tradition in the Caribbean—that of the peasants. They were now for the writer not a source of labor, but of culture, of a way of life, and of the art of social living battered, tormented, assaulted...

..., Power, and History). Take, for example, his first scholarly book, Peasants and Capital: Dominica in the World Economy, published in 1988.5 Often neglected in discus‑ sions of Trouillot’s remarkable oeuvre, it seems to me to embody a form of Marxist historical anthropology that captures precisely...

... society that had been silenced under François Duvalier, showed signs of renewed life. Peasant organizations, independent journalists and lawyers, religious associations—particularly Catholic grassroots groups in the countryside and in the slums—began to articulate an alternative to “Jean-Claudisme.” 13...

... the time to his inevitable, fated death, returning to the oblivion from which he came. In addition to the Césaire intertext, Trouillot also seems to play indirectly on another classic francophone Caribbean literary work: Jacques Roumain’s peasant novel, Gouverneurs de la rosée. Perhaps most...

... and Peasant Radicalism in Haiti and Jamaica (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2000); Nicholls, Dessalines to Duvalier . 3 David Nicholls, From Dessalines to Duvalier: Race, Colour, and National Independence in Haiti (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996); David Nicholls...

... to women of a certain class: women of distinguished rank. Nowhere did he indicate the extension of educational benefi ts to peasant and working class Haitian women. But privileged women, despite their distinguished class, were to continue in their fathers’ house. Shirley Ardener’s work...

... and questions the entire conceptual edifice that privileges European and Euro-Western conceptions of work (proletarian labor) at the expense of other forms, including enslaved labor, peasant labor, and women’s reproductive labor, the latter of which Ferreira da Silva centers as a crucial part of capital...

... of devil beliefs among peasantries forced into wage labor in the tin mines of Bolivia and the sugar plantations of western Columbia. These beliefs, he argues, represent a reaction to the alienation the peasants experience on entering the ranks of the proletariat. Where once they exercised control over...

... of massive land and water relocation projects and government-sanctioned discrimination against black citizens in the public and private sectors, all in the name of attracting tourists from abroad. Photographs of flower-festooned donkeys, ragged peasants, swaying palm trees, and majestic...

... it was published in 1975? Who is reading it now? Is it the peasants that Barthélémy refers to or the urban elite he seems to scorn? Jean-Claude Fignolé reads the novel differently, stating, “ Dezafi établit définitivement campement au lieu de la rupture parce qu'il a pu prouver que de langage (lien et...

... are applied to the other.” 17 Antiblack attacks on Haitians by the government and citizens of the Dominican Republic were no worse than those in which the US Marines had been engaging since 1915. The total population of Haiti—elites, politicians, peasants, and laborers alike—was subjected...

... missionary project was to be overtaken by the emergence of that distinctive peasant culture and the decline, from the mid-1840s, of the missionary presence and infl uence” (p. 138). But even before Knibb died, the course of the history of the Baptist Church had begun to change...