...Faith Smith This essay argues that the death of a fictional photographer in the 1907 novel Rupert Gray: A Tale in Black and White allays anxieties posed by photographic surveillance and “feminization.” Even if the novel's faith in the British Empire disqualifies it from being radical, its portrayal...

...David Scott Small Axe Incorporated 2001 The Dialectic of Defeat: An Interview with Rupert Lewis David Scott Each generation must out of relative obscurity discover its mission, fulfi ll it, or betray it. . . . We must rid ourselves of the habit, now that we are in the thick...

...Rupert Lewis This essay examines the ideological and political circumstances in Jamaica and the anglophone Caribbean that led to the emergence of the Workers Party of Jamaica in 1978. It explores the ways Jamaican radicals in the 1970s appropriated and applied the ideas of Marx and Lenin...

... around the corner. Her gait was familiar but more rushed, and she seemed agitated. That day Keshia had hurried out of school to meet her boyfriend, Rupert, by Miss Gracie’s stall. They had planned to take the bus home together. She had waited amid the mob of stu- dents that surrounded...

.... 35 • July 2011 • Faith Smith  |  199 In Stephen Cobham’s 1907 novel Rupert Gray: A Tale in Black and White, recently repub- lished in one of those glorious editions being put out by University of the West Indies Press’s Caribbean Heritage Series and Macmillan Classics Caribbean Series...

... very excited because the arrival of British troops in British Guiana was all over the BBC news. He asked, “Who is your dentist?” ssmallmall and I said, “Cheddi Jagan.” Oh, and he went berserk! But going back to your question, I aaxexe do remember and I always feel—and Rupert...

... of COVID. Sitting at a desk in South Africa, I waited for Rupert Lewis to join a Zoom meeting. He had kindly agreed to speak to me about Peter Abrahams, a Black South African writer who decided to settle in Jamaica in the 1950s. Maureen and Rupert were dear friends of the South African–Jamaican Abrahams. I...

..., I was in the process of initiating the journal Small Axe , I consulted my former teacher Rupert Lewis (the doyen of radical journal editing in postcolonial Jamaica) on whom I might involve in the project. Without hesitation he asked me whether I knew Anthony Bogues. I did not. Bogues too had been...

..., Mona campus staff residences in the 1970s: a young woman with a young family and a husband who was also a scholar. Nurturing small children in a life of lecturing and research is a daunting enterprise. Maureen and her husband, Rupert Lewis, provided a remarkable example of how such a situation can...

... life of the country and restated its intention to redress the racial-political equation through a third- party, multiracial force.¹ Walter Rodney and Rupert Roopnaraine were introduced as multiracial “symbols of the new politics,” and with the entire WPA leadership present, the party celebrated...

..., that it would be intellectually lazy and negligent not to explore what actually happened and what were the motivational factors behind Bishop and his supporters moving and taking control of Fort Rupert on that fateful 19 October 1983. Here again is the sequence. Bishop is freed from detention in his house...

... recently and most relevantly, David Scott, Irreparable Evil: An Essay in Moral and Reparatory History (New York: Columbia University Press, forthcoming). 7 On the movement in Jamaica sparked by the Rodney riots, see Rupert Lewis, “Learning to Blow the Abeng: A Critical Look at Anti-establishment...

..., and social history with the life histories of three fiction writers into an effective multivoiced essay about the white, brown, and black middle classes that had access to the policy-making upper echelons of the People’s National Party. Emeritus professor of government Rupert Lewis revisits his own...

... spoke in London’s famous Hyde Park and participated in a study group with C. L. R. James. For a description of Rodney’s student days in London, see Walter Rodney Speaks: e Making of an African Intellectual (Trenton, N.J.: African World Press, 1990) and Rupert Lewis’s Walter Rodney’s...

...: Heinemann Caribbean, 1989), 167–229. 35 Rupert Lewis and Maureen Warner-Lewis, eds., Garvey: Africa, Europe, the Americas (Mona: Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of the West Indies, 1986; repr., Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1994). 34 Alison Donnell, Twentieth...

...—Lloyd Best, Stuart Hall, Richard Hart, Robert A. Hill, Sylvia Wynter, Rupert Lewis, George Lamming, Andaiye, Rex Nettleford, Merle Collins, and Orlando Patterson (in order of appearance). These interviews are invaluable records of the pathways and trajectories of a generation of intellectuals decisive...

..., 1880–1902 (1991). He is also the coeditor (with Rupert Lewis) of Marcus Garvey: His Work and Impact (1988). rhonda cobham teaches Caribbean and African literature and postcolonial literary theory at Amherst College. She was guest editor of a special issue of Research in African Literatures...

... Erna Brodber Rhonda Cobham Locksley Edmondson Stuart Hall Robert Hill George Lamming Kari Levitt Rupert Lewis Earl Lovelace Rex Nettleford...

... to Fort Rupert rather than to a nearby public square where he might have spoken to them about options or negotiated with his adversaries in the party. Meeks's detailed rehearsal of these events is dispiriting. However, these events are instructive about human error and susceptibility to folly...

.... I would especially like to thank Rupert Lewis and Don Robotham for giving me helpful feedback and in general for helping me to better understand the Jamaican 1970s. 1 Michael Manley, A Voice at the Workplace: Reflections on Colonialism and the Jamaican Worker (London: Andre Deutsch, 1975...