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...Leah Rosenberg Faith Smith's Creole Recitations offers a feminist critique and compelling alternative to the dominant narratives of Trinidadian and black nationalism. Smith's analysis of Thomas's participation in the anglophone Caribbean public sphere of the late nineteenth century makes visible...

...Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo Apart from the fact that it is one of very few book-length studies of a Caribbean-based British Caribbean black intellectual from the nineteenth century, and one of even fewer written by a literary studies scholar, Faith L. Smith's Creole Recitations stands out because...

...Rhonda Cobham Faith Smith's analysis, in Creole Recitations , of the nineteenth-century scholar John Jacob Thomas's often contradictory allegiances offers us a way of reading the counterintuitively parallel career of the poet Eric Roach a century later. Roach is the subject of Laurence Breiner's...

...Faith Smith This essay uses the three interlocutors' reflections to return to Creole Recitations , and to reconsider Thomas's nineteenth century as an arena for thinking about Caribbean male intellectuals' self-fashioning and desire, diaspora and degeneration, the sexual politics of creolization...

... located critics of an embodied tradition we share. 4 This is one way of inquiring into the question of intellectual generations. But it is not the only one. To my mind the enormous importance of Faith Smith’s Creole Recitations: John Jacob Thomas and Colonial Formation in the Late Nineteenth...

... think that it’s a tendency that has changed quite a bit but I say this in refl ection, as a reaction to what you’ve just said. Edwidge Danticat: I think there is a kind of poetry in Haitian history. I remember reciting the words of Toussaint Louverture¹⁹ and Boisrond Tonnerre—whom Dany 19...

... n’est pas surprenant : c’est elle qui est la narratrice d’Amour, récit écrit sous la forme d’un journal intime fut d’abord directeur de l’Alliance Française de la Dominique où il monte le Festival de théâtre franco-créole en 2001 avant de travailler en Martinique où il crée...

... “Dance Recital by Sylvia Chen, Empire Theatre,” concert program, 17 December 1940, folder 6, box 30, CLP. 2 My reference to the “third world” is above all historical. My intention is not to naturalize the tripartite framework that came to dominate discourse about the international order during...

.... faith smith is associate professor of English at Brandeis University. She is the author of Creole Recitations: John Jacob Th omas and Colonial Formation in the Late Nineteenth- Century Caribbean (2002). elizabeth walcott-hackshaw is a lecturer in French and francophone literature...

... temps de compatir à la douleur des autres, encore moins à celle d’un misérable anonyme » (147). Comme bien d’autres personnages dans Mûr à crever , le cantonnier souffre de cet isolement. Le court récit du médecin donne à voir une solitude qui résulte d’une exclusion systématique. Le cantonnier manque...

... Concourse was no Sabine not Gothicus nor Appius, Crassus nor Caecus a Dominican Friar of another kind on the football team. Nervously reciting rex regis regem repeat. The Bronx was teeming with Hectors & Ulysseses badass anachronisms whose declensions betrayed absolutely...

... of Empire Day concluded with recitations from Rudyard Kipling’s poem “If.” She would purse her lips, in an effort of recall, tilt her head until she found the words she wanted, and begin: If you can keep your head while all about you Are losing theirs and blaming...

..., theatricality to these meetings: Sometimes these sessions would go for several hours, and we would all be drinking rum, and if the bottle of rum ran out another bottle of rum would be purchased. Huge amount of rum was drunk and then poetry would be recited, often the same stuff week after week. Th...

...” and is currently writing one on Caribbean mobilities. Faith Smith chairs the Department of African and Afro-American Studies at Brandeis Uni- versity in Waltham, Massachusetts. She is the author of Creole Recitations: John Jacob Thomas and Colonial Formations in the Late Nineteenth Century Caribbean (2002...

...-American Studies. She is the author of Creole Recitations: John Jacob Thomas and Colonial Formation in the Late Nineteenth-Century Caribbean (2002) and is now working on a book project titled “Whose Modern? Caribbean Cultural and Intel- lectual Formation, 1885–1915.” She is the editor of Sex...

..., Henri Christophe, and the Haitian Revolution. As Saint-Éloi asserts in the closing lines of this chapter in Passion Haïti , “Haïti est un grand laboratoire de misères, de courage et de récits.” 15 In this conception, then, Haiti constitutes an ideal subject in which to explore Tout-monde, a place...

... European empire, in the wake of the Spanish American and Boer Wars. She is the author of Creole Recitations: John Jacob Thomas and Colonial Formation in the Late Nineteenth-Century Caribbean (2002) and the editor of Sex and the Citizen: Interrogating the Caribbean (2011). M ichelle S tephens...

... by consent. For her, the novel theorizes a counterdiscursive strategy that Ella puts into practice: “By refusing recitation and slavish reproduction, Ella teaches against the grain of [schoolbook fable] ‘Mr Joe’s Farm’ reading for resistance and local restitution.”40 Of course, Myal’s espousal...

...-tightening webs of familiarity. Th e intra-Caribbean migration trajectories of 6. Faith Smith, Creole Recitations: John Jacob Th omas and Colonial Formations in the Late Nineteenth-Century Caribbean (Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2002). 7. Patsy Lewis...

..., to recite), the term suggests not only a prior claim but also repetition and translation. For Wagner-Pacifici, however, it is the French reflexive verb se rendre that most clearly suggests in surrender “an implicit return of the self to its true sovereign, . . .a sense of a recovery of an original state...