...Martin Munro Evoking the persistence of themes of revenge and animosity in Haitian literature, this article considers how Lyonel Trouillot radically reconceptualizes them, and considers how his work is pushing toward a more complex understanding of personal and collective identity and destiny...

...] my eyes burn into his, and he lowers his head, for this is his crime. His. He can sleep peacefully though, get his women pregnant, sow his wild oats. I won't touch him. The time for revenge is over. (204) Paradoxically, for Xantippe as embodied history or the bearer of these unspeakable secrets...

.... whirling whispers the art of how forgiveness is revenge The engines of yr heart work through the past & present far into dreaming night And you will walk one day Mandela at last w/Zanyiwe Madikizela at yr side yr hammer fist of stone upright in triumph & salute into the blazing future...

.... Rendered in stunningly compelling prose, Jamaica Kincaid’s Mr. Potter recalls music and song—fugue, religious litany, (parodic) biblical enunciation of genealogies, Nordic lament, children’s nursery rhyme, the Weltanschauung of T. S. Eliot’s Wasteland. Mr. Potter is also elegy and revenge code...

.... Rendered in stunningly compelling prose, Jamaica Kincaid’s Mr. Potter recalls music and song—fugue, religious litany, (parodic) biblical enunciation of genealogies, Nordic lament, children’s nursery rhyme, the Weltanschauung of T. S. Eliot’s Wasteland. Mr. Potter is also elegy and revenge code...

... in stunningly compelling prose, Jamaica Kincaid’s Mr. Potter recalls music and song—fugue, religious litany, (parodic) biblical enunciation of genealogies, Nordic lament, children’s nursery rhyme, the Weltanschauung of T. S. Eliot’s Wasteland. Mr. Potter is also elegy and revenge code; history (auto...

...-bright glory in the conquistador's malarial eye, crying, at least here something happened— 36 Such attitudes are static, uncreative, confining, perpetuating only shame (and pride, which is its obverse) or revenge. To fall into the trap of the shame-pride-revenge syndrome is related to placing too...

... to those who had trespassed against him and against his people. Mandela appeared to embody in his person and personality the sublime spirit of the new age of reconciliation. He redeemed the racial sins of white South Africans; and he solicited from blacks a willingness to forsake revenge, to relinquish...

... Refused (2004) offers a truly epic, complex, engaged narrative of the slave uprisings, the political intrigues, and the rise of Toussaint Louverture as a quintessentially Haitian hero, caught between France and Africa, tradition and modernity, revenge and forgiveness, hatred...

... of its multiple, cas- cading contradictions: the intimate memories of wounds, defeats, and humiliations condens- ing with cultural fantasies of aggrandizement and revenge, in such a way as to be productive at times of unspeakable violence. For how else can we understand such debauches...

... a limited presence in popular memory. Rhonda Cobham, in her interrogation of Morant Bay in Jamaican literature, argues that literature, the popular press, and folk tales kept the memory of 1865 alive with contradictory narratives or ideological persuasions. For example, H. G. de Lisser’s novel Revenge...

.... There were solid grounds for this comment by the Gleaner 's reviewer: “It mightn't seem much like the place you live in, but for secret Agent 007 [Jamaica] was the most exciting spot in the 1963 film world of mass murder and revenge. My bet is it will make you feel that way too.” 30 All the film's...

.... A dangerous deployment of history, the gulley song here whets the appetite for revenge. The song performs a temporal revision, using memory to create a future, and to proclaim Black life in a landscape of social death. It is a disruptive folding of time, in which the old slave song is powerfully used...

... group. Typically the dominated group or person feels powerless to retali- ate, and so harbors a persistent resentment and desire for revenge. Ressentiment is typically 3. Following the registration of the GMMWU, the union made demands for 50 percent increase in wages, 14 days...

..., the region proj- ects onto Haiti compensatory images of racial revenge, heroic uniqueness, or misguided hubris. For instance, Martinique’s Aimé Césaire, in his Notebook of a Return to the Native Landd, written almost at the same time as James’s Black Jacobins, reduced the impact of the Haitian...

.... Their metamorphoses, and the threat of “spectral revenge” (69), Brown demonstrates, troubled both whites and blacks, recording the rudiments of a legal sorcery that converted humans into things or nonhuman animals. Whether we turn to the English or French Caribbean, or even...

... with revenge plotlines addressing the absurdity of unquestioned Marxist and religious orthodoxies. With a focus on administrative leaders, Fraser explores the state of the nation's educational institutions while Wynter scrutinizes the millenarian ideologies and practices of a self-isolated religious sect...

... indicate that Madame Bullet is singing an aria from Don Giovanni , a classic opera rife with masking, and when the lights come up after a few bars, Madame Bullet is seen playing the piano with Marie-Jeanne sitting beside her. The opera features a revenge plot, and Madame Bullet sings a few lines: “I...

... to construct a shared English identity, Hall attempts to move beyond a Manichean history of remorse and revenge that “leaves salt upon the face.” She captures, instead, the RRhondahonda CCobhamobham hurl and twist of power and dreams...

..., and this is because he is dead and beyond reading and writing and beyond contesting my authority to render him in my own image. (193) Kincaid is exquisitely aware of the contradictions of narrative revenge that predicates the daughter’s individuation and creative presence on the erasure of the father’s...