... of power,” a critical applied history analytical framework, which aims to methodologically return to the anticolonial strategies of earlier generations, would adopt the following elements: Employ a problem-oriented approach . The analysis must undertake a critical analysis of a specific contemporary...

... studies, has been particularly generative and rewarding for me. Yet it is often also with some trepidation that one returns to earlier scholarship that almost inevitably seems out of step with more recent work in the field and of whose shortcomings one has become more keenly aware with time. Since...

...Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw This article explores the poetics of return in Edwidge Danticat's The Dew Breaker and her latest work, Brother, I'm Dying . Focusing on the roles of memory, imagination, borrowed recollections, and autobiography, the article illustrates how Danticat writes this return...

... and iconography that has evolved in this society beyond its original moment of entry to a point of no return to an imagined purity. © Small Axe, Inc. 2017 postindenture aesthetics visionary artist Trinidad symbolism What does it mean to strip something down to its bare essence and why does...

... of individual memories and collective diasporic history. This essay attempts to show the possibilities of an imaginative construction of indentured return experiences intersecting with intergenerational memories as well as the cultivation of facts on the ground, inspired by Wilson Harris's argument...

... his initial statement: “We are all Caribbeans now in our urban archipelagos. ‘Guinea’ (old Africa, writes Aimé Césaire) ‘from your cry from your hand from your patience / we still have some arbitrary lands’… . Perhaps there's no return for anyone to a native land—only field notes for its reinvention...

...Emily A. Maguire In 1943, Cuban writer Lydia Cabrera published a Spanish translation of Aimé Césaire's poem Notebook of a Return to the Native Land with illustrations by Cuban artist Wifredo Lam. The translation introduced the concept of Négritude to a Cuban and Spanish-language readership...

... of the Edwardian era: the Brotherhood movement. From his exposure to the movement's ideology and his participation in its organizational successes, Garvey obtained the template of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, which he created on his return to Jamaica from England in mid-1914. The first attempt...

... in Jamaica might tell us about the development of literary culture in the Caribbean. The author ends by thinking about how a focus on returns might also help us to rethink the decade. The essay examines instances of migrant returns, through which people recrossed the waters, and explores literary remittances...

...M. Jacqui Alexander This essay stages a meeting among the authors of the three reflections on Pedagogies of Crossings . Using danger and desire as the tropes of entry, it returns to Pedagogies by way of wrestling with their most salient preoccupations: the need for a visible pedagogy of the erotic...

...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...

... validity, exemplified by the radical hip-hop voices that emerged following the 2005 youth uprisings in French banlieues. The essay pays particular attention to the opening salvo of the Négritude movement, Damas's relatively underanalyzed Pigments (1947) and Césaire's more celebrated Notebook of a Return...

... Republic and vendors traveling between Haiti, Curacao, Panama, and the Bahamas, as well as return migrants and others. The author posits that the insistence that all multiligual Haitians belong to the same socioeconomic category depends on the image of the authentic Haitian as poor, illiterate...

....” Imagining other times and possible futures, juxtaposing temporalities and ways of timekeeping, marking temporal breaks, returns, and ruptures, this work helps us ask, What time is it? Whose time is it? © Small Axe, Inc. 2015 temporality historical memory Jewish identity radical politics queer...

...Jovan Scott Lewis In this response essay, the author returns to his arguments in Scammer’s Yard: The Crime of Black Repair in Jamaica (2020) to further consider the limits of repair as advanced by the book’s crew of Jamaican lottery scammers. The author reconsiders some of the arguments to examine...