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...Roland Rose In Transition: The Bahamas at Mid-Century Roland Rose small axe 55 • March 2018 • DOI 10.1215/07990537-4379020 © Roland Rose 148 [ Roland Rose ] In Transition: The Bahamas at Mid-Century Previous page Opposite...

...] could know, a reason for [her] unease or some promise of the future.” 13 She is searching for amends, perhaps even for an object/image that might provide it. On a November evening, not long after his mother has died, Roland Barthes is sorting through her photographs. He is also looking...

... in this essay by Roland Barthes’s compact remark (in his reading of Friedrich Nietzsche) that “the contemporary is the untimely.” 4 The contemporary, then, is a special relation to time, to the experience of one’s own time; specifically, a relation of untimely experience with respect to one’s time...

..., Laferrière stands between the 1960s Dgeneration of exiled Haitian authors (Franck Fouché, Paul Laraque, Roger Dorsin- ville, Roland Morisseau, Anthony Phelps, and Émile Ollivier) and a newer group that has less direct experience of the violence and tension of the Duvalier years and which includes Joël...

... Scenes from a Catastrophe.” 9 Roland Barthes, Mythologies (1957; repr., London: Cape, 1974); Henrietta Lidchi, “The Poetics and Politics of Exhibiting Other Cultures,” in Stuart Hall, ed., Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices (London: Sage, 1997), 151–222. 8...

.... 26 Key books include Andrew Welsh, Roots of Lyric: Primitive and Modern Poetics (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978); Roland Greene, Post-Petrarchism: Origins and Innovations of the Western Lyric Sequence (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991); and Jonathan Culler, Theory...

... of hegemonic European temporality. Copyright © 2018 by Small Axe, Inc. 2018 wilderness photography imperialism ethnography travel The incapacity to name is a good symptom of disturbance. —Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida Photographs capture more than their intended subjects. Unwanted...

..., the bolero conveys the soul through the full embodiment of the act of singing. Cabrera Infante's description prefigures what French theorist Roland Barthes calls the “grain” of the voice: “The ‘grain,’” writes Barthes, “is the body in the voice as it sings, the hand as it writes, the limb as it performs...

... attempts to contribute to that literature by fusing my personal narrative with the specifi c sociocultural and historical conditions that shaped my life and those of many other Puerto Ricans. Pertinent also is Roland Barthes’s suggestion that works of literature, painting, and music present...

... for Martinican authors has been more difficult. Is Laferrière then playing with varying forms of literacy, with the difference between the read- able and the writerly (le lisible [readable] and le scriptible [writerly where the readable for Roland Barthes is the privileged literary form...

... is aware of a longer African Muslim presence in the Americas that has been obscured by a particular enactment of Africanness that Roland Judy calls into question,25 reminds us in his work that the Muslim was first a slave, brute, and nigger in the Americas before a brown body...

... la mort du prophète (Lumumba or the Death of the Prophet); L’homme sur les quais (The Man on the Quays); and Desounen (Dialogue with Death). More recently, Peck directed the fictional work Lumumba, which was a great success in Africa and the United States.2 Roland Paret...

... and nonverbal signs, such as affect and gesture. Just as Roland Barthes describes theatricality as a “veritable polyphonie informationnelle,” the characters in the theatrical world of Colère must negotiate several layers of verbal and nonverbal signification, the slightest gesture or change in tone becoming...

... Tommy McCook and Roland Alphonso, were born in Cuba (as were Marley’s percussionist Alvin “Seeco” Patterson and his backup singer and wife Rita Marley). Garvey’s demands for racial justice formed a crucial element of Rastafarian ideology, and certainly the antiracist objectives of the Cuban Revolution...

... number of people. 13 George Seferis, “The King of Asini,” in Collected Poems, 1924–1955 , ed. and trans. Edmund Keeley and Phillip Sherrard (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1967), 261. 14 Ibid., 127. 15 Roland Barthes, The Rustle of Language , trans. Richard Howard...

...Figure 6 Roland “Roro” Rockville invoking a lwa spirit during a vodou ceremony, Arcahaie, Haiti, c. 2004. Photograph by Marilyn Houlberg. EEPA 2012-004-0430 ...

... and intellectual collective founded in 1960 by young poets such as Anthony Phelps, Serge Legagneur, Roland Morisseau, René Philoctète, and Davertige. The outward-looking humanism of the group is expressed in Phelps’s contention: “Our writers have not understood that literature must not be made...

... and a sainte” (234). She at times borrows Duras’s (1914–96) écriture blanche (240), “white writing,” defined by Roland Barthes in Le degré zéro de l’écriture (Paris: Seuil, 1953) as a writing without coloration, transparent and spare. Kanor, in an interview for Afrik.com, said...

... Bris and Jean Rouaud, “Pour une ‘littérature-monde’ en français,” Le Monde, 16 March 2007. All unreferenced quotations are extracted from the text of the manifesto. These and all other translations are mine. 3 Muriel Barbery, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Alain Borer, Roland Brival, Maryse Condé...