... and Knowledge,” the author compares the 1944 conference paper with the version published in Tropiques in 1945 to show a feedback loop between poetry and politics. The war, the isolation, and the intellectual evolution of Tropiques coalesced to form a new environment that prompted Césaire to rethink the relation...

... production of the crime of obeah discursively isolated those aspects of Caribbean spiritual practice that match terms defined as antonyms of or precursors to religion—“magic,” “superstition,” “witchcraft,” separating these aspects from others that conform more easily to an idea of “religion.” This colonial...

...), et de l’autre ceux qui travaillaient des terres qui ne leur appartenaient pas, il précise que « while the country’s economic structure and the organization of political society always implied the isolation of the peasantry, at another level the fact that this same peasantry helped, biologically...

... to insurrectionist violence during the 1960s had triggered panic among state elites, these violent but isolated instances of insubordination stood little chance of overthrowing the state, and these rebellions were easily suppressed. A careful assessment and close understanding of the politics of the urban poor might...

... the intimacies of dictatorship. For Ávila Laurel, Arde el monte de noche demands attending to the reach of power on those oppressed by the decisions made from afar that impact an isolated community, and bearing witness to how political isolation begets illness, malnutrition, and a form of erotic violence...

... a constitution that was explicitly intended to isolate the radical movement in British Guiana, Jagan was left with the choice of becoming politically obsolete or playing the game according to colonial rules Later, under the Kennedy administration, Arthur Schlesinger devised a plan to establish a system...

... of a complex and evolving idea of peasant culture which made pure isolation impossible. As Trouillot puts it, The peasants themselves rarely aimed at total isolation. . . . While the country’s economic structure and the organization of political society always implied the isolation...

... heroes in these works return to the Caribbean after having lived in exile in order to participate in or incite political change, only to emerge at the end of their struggles as tragic fail- ures. Seymour fi gures these pessimistic plots as symptomatic of a residual anticolonialist attitude among...

... a possibility of a different socialism, one that did not follow in Joseph Stalin’s footsteps. Césaire mentions Yugoslavia to underline the fact that he is not parting with Marxism and socialism per se, but with the politics and ideology of the French Communist Party, which had espoused Stalinist politics. What...

... virtually nothing of a sense of presence among West Indian literary and visual artists. Throughout the 1950s, these artists not only had produced a respectable body of work but also had attracted an impressive recognition. And yet here they were a decade later living and working in isolation—not only...

... isolation has impacted directly on the nation’s ghettoization with respect to regional canons.18 Less widely circulated than 15 From Jamaican Claude McKay’s lamenting of Haiti’s political failures in Home to Harlem (1928) and African American Zora Neale Hurston’s...

... in the presidential elections. Aristide went it alone and won it all. But the number of voters was low. A power struggle ensued. More and more isolated, the govern- ment and the party in power turned to corruption and organized crime as political weapons. Threats, intimidations. Totalitarian excess. An attorney...

..., the essay examines her involvement in leftist politics. During this period, Primus sought to navigate her leftist commitments with her own seemingly nationalist impulses. This is most evident in her support of the “Double V” campaign and her involvement with Popular Front cultural communities and venues...

... there was little doubt that to recognize Haiti’s capacity to take on a role traditionally attributed to European nations was to risk bestowing ideological and diplomatic legitimacy on a country that had been morally and politically isolated from the rest of the hemisphere for the sole reason that it existed...

... through the trope of the archipelago, challenging the understanding of the Caribbean as discontinuous, isolated, hermetic, and beyond comprehension. Analyzing contemporary art of the hispanophone islands and their diasporas, they reveal shared concerns within the Caribbean archipelago and posit...

... and military remain seemingly untouchable antagonists in her narrative, Coard has to decide which bits of herself can be wrested free in the context of incarceration, isolation, and torture. She must do this in the wake of the political crisis of October 1983 and the assassinations of her former colleagues...

...) is an isolated example of the treatment of the dundus in the literature. But Roy’s novel has never featured to any great extent in Caribbean critical discourse. SX25 • February 2008 • Curdella Forbes | 19 revolutionary nation and manhood such as may...

... of observation. And even more important, these same unfortunates will have to face the ugly, nagging, yet never fully or politely stated assumption that their isolation, alien- ation, de-anthropomorphization, and social death are, to a great extent, of their own making. And now...

... common assumptions about Puerto Rican and Dominican racial politics: first, that Puerto Ricans and Dominicans are always in conflict and, second, that Puerto Ricans and Dominicans shy away from identifying as black. An analysis of the music video provides one example of how diasporic blackness operates...

... traces of bitterness and disappointment resulting from the mixed results of Chamoiseau’s political endeavor. On numerous occasions in the text, he declares he is the only one to be outraged by Martinique’s “political mirage” (216) and repeatedly expresses feelings of isolation: “I walked alone...