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...] calypso to the world” (as a CBC press release put it) than with projecting to the world a particular image of Canada—as a modern, diverse, racially tolerant nation. That project was compromised, however, by Canada's fraught history with the West Indies. Reading Caresser's CBC career in the context...

... essai (2013). Chamoiseau's attempt to weave Césaire into a tradition that includes Saint-John Perse, Edouard Glissant, and—most prominently—the French poet René Char leaves us with many questions: What is the complex geography of legacy? What happens when substantially different poets are pressed...

..., and in the current rounds of colonial settlement through tax haven conditions in the realm of real estate. The essay shifts the language of anticolonial sensorial errancy to decolonial sensorial errancy to focus on the forms of “slow violence” of economic invasion/ control, the productivity of which presses us...

...Jacqueline Couti The French Creole term makoumè does not belong to the political and cultural discussions by French Caribbean LGBT communities seeking protection against abuse using the laws sanctioned by the French government. One would also be hard-pressed to find local and Caribbean...

... representations of the Dominican Republic as a space that is racially unconscious and reminds us of the overlooked history of free black experience in the eastern side of the island, pressing the reader to face the ghosted racialized realities that these facts highlight. This review considers the epistemological...

..., Borderlands/La frontera: The New Mestiza (San Francisco: Spinsters/Aunt Lute, 1987); Donna Guy and Thomas Sheridan, eds., Contested Ground: Comparative Frontiers on the Northern and Southern Edges of the Spanish Empire (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1998); and Charles V. Carnegie, Postnationalism...

..., Politics, and Neoliberalism,” in Berndt Reiter and Kimberly Simmons, eds., Afro-Descendents, Identity, and the Struggle for Development in the Americas (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2011), 51–66. 61 Christian Krohn-Hansen, “A Tomb for Columbus: Political Cosmology, Population...

... be found on the KingAlarm Security website, kingalarmjamaica.com/ (accessed 2 August 2013). 2 Deborah A. Thomas, Exceptional Violence: Embodied Citizenship in Transnational Jamaica (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011); hereafter cited in the text. See also Deborah A. Thomas, Modern...

... is a critical mass of books that press diaspora through and as a practice of culture, all through sound, incidentally and not incidentally. Here is a collection of first books that ask us to rethink what we think we know—but more important, how we think we know—about the practices of diaspora, about what...

... of Atlantic Slavery (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008); hereafter cited in text. 2 Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History (Boston: Beacon, 1995), 2. small axe 31 • March 2010 • DOI 10.1215/07990537-2009-054 © Small Axe, Inc. 220  |  History...

... of sugar for the world market before the Haitian Revolution, and Spanish Cuba and Puerto Rico, which were quickly becoming more competitive since those revolts.5 1 Felicity Nussbaum, ed., The Global Eighteenth Century (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003). 2 Great Britain Colonial...

..., it suggests that going beyond national perspectives also includes the study of local histories, reconceived as spaces linked to but not always bound by national narratives. 30 Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof, A Tale of Two Cities: Santo Domingo and New York after 1950 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press...

... This essay builds on scholarship that explores what it means to be aboriginal in the Caribbean. See, in particular, Maximilian C. Forte, Ruins of Absence, Presence of Caribs: (Post)Colonial Representations of Aboriginality in Trinidad and Tobago (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2005); Maximilian...

... US black subjects in the antebellum era, an echo of this domesticating and disciplining impulse guides some of the captioning in the early-twentieth-century US images of Dominican subjects. A cartoon by G. W. Rehse published in the St. Paul Pioneer Press in 1904, around the same time...

...: Power and the Production of History (Boston: Beacon Press, 1995). Other significant work showing Haiti’s regional, hemispheric, and global influence includes David Geggus, “Slavery, War, and Revolution in the Greater Caribbean, 1789–1815,” in David Barry Gaspar and David Geggus, eds., A Turbulent Time...

..., no. 2 (1991): 397–98. Afterword to Babouk: Voices of Reistance , by Guy Endore. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1991. Review of Afro-Caribbean Villages in Historical Perspective , by Charles V. Carnegie. Social and Economic Studies 38, no. 2 (1989): 321–25. “The Lost Continent...

... life, a long détour through an island postcolonial state imaginatively constituted (unlike the Caribbean) through a surfeit of memory.2 (Indeed, this contrast between the seeming excess 1. So far a total of ten volumes of the papers have been published by the University of California Press...

... and Barbuda (Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994); Vincent Brown, “Spiritual Terror and Sacred Authority in Jamaican Slave Society,” Slavery and Abolition 24, no. 1 (2003): 24–53; Dianne M. Stewart, Three Eyes for the Journey: African Dimensions of the Jamaican Religious...

...Madhavi Kale Small Axe Incorporated 2003 BOOK DISCUSSION: CIVILISING SUBJECTS Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination, 1830–1867, Catherine Hall. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. ISBN 0-226-31334-4 Subject to Question: Empire and Catherine...

... (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004). Hereafter cited in text. small axe 34 March 2011 DOI 10.1215/07990537-1189611 © Small Axe, Inc. 34 March 2011 Diana Paton | 177 The research that became No Bond but the Law was not initially driven by concerns about the role of state violence...