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...Charles Forsdick The article explores Edouard Glissant's literary, intellectual and political activity over the past decade in the light of Edward W. Said's concept of `late style'. There is no intention to present the Martiniquan writer and intellectual as an exemplum of Said's categorization...

...' in this essay extemporizes on Edward Said's concept in Orientalism. Othering excludes Asians from the creole project of nationalisms in the region, conferring instead a script of antiquity and cultural spirituality that Asians have colluded with for negotiating difference. This collusion comes with its own...

... representations of Carnival by artists such as Belisario are marked, according to Stuart Hall, by what is not said, Boyce's Crop Over is motivated by what remains unexplained. Small Axe Inc. 2009 Sonia Boyce and Crop Over Allison Thompson “My name is Donkey-man” A shirtless, barefoot man gazes...

... makes their heads hurt, they are not alone; even Brodber's colleagues have said this. Brodber takes this opportunity to speak to this “head-hurting,” confessing that much of this difficulty was designed as part of her methodology. She examines each of her published novels and explores the changes in her...

..., and linguistic realities. Using Edward Said’s notion of worldliness , the essay argues that Cooper articulates this via three related tropes—noises, border clashes, and the vulgar body—that address the politics of Jamaican linguistic and cultural hierarchies. Cooper’s two groundbreaking publications, Noises...

...Nathalie Batraville In Looking for Other Worlds: Black Feminism and Haitian Fiction (2022), Régine Jean-Charles evokes revolutionary figures such as Sanité Bélair and Victoria Montou, who fought in the Haitian Revolution. She also revisits the legacy of Marie-Jeanne Lamartinière, who was said...

... of surveillance assemblages. But even more than a feeling, Maroon insecurity might be said to describe an experience of precarity. This attention to these Maroon in/securities revises the grand narratives of marronage in heroic terms that have often been dominant in the cultural and popular imagination across...

..., and Caribbean sovereignty; (2) the particular status and nature of the Caribbean region within the history of capitalism; (3) the nature and the meaning of the well-worn term racial capitalism ; and (4) the idea of “war” as a fundamental aspect of the modes of regulation and accumulation of said racial...

... on Kingston Harbor. Beyond was the Palisadoes Road. I knew that road well. It was the narrow strip that took away my mother and father. Now it was our turn. Andrew stopped the van near Preyne Street when a heavy-set woman with gold bangles on her wrists stepped into the road. Rass boy, Maxine said, sitting...

... and spread through the entire house. “You like to taste, no?” Mrs. Kapoor said when the chutney was done. “Yes, yes, I want to taste,” I said. “I give you some,” she said, “for your family.” “For my family?” I was doubtful, suspecting that my mother would fl ing any off er- ing from Mrs...

... didn’t like him for his mum, who said Colin ought to give the boy a chance to get to know him better, the way she did. But the boy was too rude. A girl he knew a long time ago (so long ago, it seemed another lifetime) had had a child for him, a daughter. ) e mother was little more than a child...

... was like a lobster's. At first we all thought some terrible accident was what caused it. Someone suggested that was likely, with all the children her parents had and not being able to watch them all. Someone else said she was born that way, and when we looked at her hand again, the right one, that story...

... a civil marriage. He wanted to stay here. His parents were furious with him for marrying a Muslim girl from Trinidad. They don’t acknowledge me.” “Still, sounds like he gives you a good life.” “Yes,” she said, not saying she’d known the marriage was over weeks before Musa’s birth, when she found...

... to an English boarding school; and Kim to do A levels at the local sixth form college. Mark was the only one without a plan. He said he would wait and see what happened. The others knew this meant he would stay in Jamaica and live at home and be forced to take a job at his father’s furniture workshop...

..., a hardnosed right-wing approach that sent shivers around the region and launched a regime more akin to the South American mainland than their small island. What was it the papers around the region said? An unprecedented wave of military muscle. Every day, from the window in his office, Drew looked...

... the door for the des- ignated seven seconds that her union has said it should take a kid to get on the bus and fi nd a seat. It never changed. Even when she screamed at a kid (in violation of school board rules), it’s the usual “Get your ass down, you piece of shit!” But I guess she had to talk...

... said, I am not going inside, I am staying right out there. C: That’s what you said? VM: Yes. I tell myself that, I am staying right out there. 6 It was clear that Tivoli Gardens residents expected that death would be visited on their households by the security forces if a young male...

... because I chatted a lot, she said, “Well, this little boy is bright, you know. I better send him to school.” And the school was really a haven. I went to school, while my young uncles and aunts had to stop from school, particularly on Fridays as was the custom in rural Jamaica at the time. 102...

... to the butcher. An obscure newspaper account recorded the rather startling disclosure that followed: “I am a thousand times obliged to you,” said the black man, and in a few minutes he was in the mission, introducing himself as Prince Hendrix Hull Polawharoo, crown prince of Abyssinia...