... and instead represents a form of political suspension that avoids the reconciliation of respectability and refusal typical of Caribbean postcolonial social production. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Small Axe, Inc. 2022 reparations violence refusal suspension scamming...

.... There is a sort of ongoing autoethnography of the book’s becoming, threaded throughout the text. Lewis returns again and again to the surprise of why and how he came to be doing this work of reclaiming scamming as reparations. I think of this surprise as linked to the “moral suspension” (20) that Lewis claims...

... genealogy of a “mother history.” 1. Ramabai Espinet, The Swinging Bridge (Canada: Harper Collins, 2004). SX21 • October 2006 • Brinda Mehta | 21 The maternal history creates points of suspension between Europe, India, Canada...

... power. 5 e suspension was a move that, for the British Colonial Offi ce, was considered to be deeply damaging to the liberal ideology that buttressed empire with benevolent images of enlightening pater- 1 Robertson (Constitutional) Commission: Discussion between the Chairman, the Archbishop...

... the Dominican Republic's bid for membership, and Gonsalves is lobbying for the Dominican Republic's suspension from the Bolivarian Alliance of the Americas and PetroCaribe. 19 However, CARICOM intervention on this issue is no substitute for a clear position on the situation of Haitian sugarcane workers...

... emphasizes the liberties Brodber takes with literary form. The choices that she makes about time and place in The Rainmaker's Mistake , and the presence or lack of boundaries between each, indicate that textual representation of the Caribbean requires a loosening, often a complete suspension, of prescribed...

... talks in an unknown tongue . . . words like “underdevelopment,” “Marx,” “cultural pluralism.” I love my young man. He’s got the black spirit and it’s riding him hard. Lead on Robin. Lead on. (J&L, 46; suspension points in original) Of course...

.... For Lewis, “The with-held recognition for the crime of slavery—which if fully recognized would signal culpability and come with a compensatory obligation—renders Caribbean nations and their citizens in geographies of suspension, of incomplete liberations, under-realized independences, and in an immutable...

... island, making society itself an object of reflection precisely in the liminal moment of its suspension. This politics of disjuncture has two key elements. First, it creates a shared space of experience that arises from the breach of the everyday. Second, it provides the conditions of possibility...

... subjugation, that is—Bonilla insists that the suspension of the dual horizons of imperial statehood and independence generates new articulations of sovereignty and political belonging. Appealing to a critical register of “hopeful pessimism,” Bonilla posits this moment of suspension as an opening to disrupt...

... “the MacGuffin,” the essential background for the strivings of slaves, colonists, missionaries, and other concerned imperial subjects, whose efforts held me in suspense.12 What did it mean to survive under those conditions? While Jamaica’s (and Atlantic slavery’s) catastrophic...

... a materiality, an almost ethnographic intensity through a series of encounters I call ‘legal ritual.’” 22 “The underlying compulsion of ritual, whether it is legal or religious: to keep the spiritual and material in suspension … . The object of penance, the person to be judged, or the thing...

... that my coextensive and multidimensional approach, which I call teleological suspensions of disciplinarity, affords psychoanalytical interpretation in communication with other ones. In psychoanalytical terms, I do regard libidinal concerns of safety and pleasure affected by social transformations...

... of all, the nature of death, or losing the self into the spectral communities of the dead. 2 When “the past is only a shadow emerging from / nowhere,” the farewell disappears into timeless suspension: the here is present but also abolished when the cry happens. 3 The unavowable community...

... désespéré . . . — Moi ? (48) Les points de suspension retranscrivent sur la page les silences et disent aussi les malen- tendus, les incompréhensions, les malaises d’une communication qui ne parvient pas à s’engager. Cette esthétique de la suggestion et de...

... perception of reality.” 27 When the events of 1953 unfolded in Guyana—the victory of the PPP, the celebration, the suspension of the constitution, the arrival of troops, the incarceration of much of the political leadership—Walter Rodney was eleven years old and entering the country’s top secondary school...

... the Imperial government and the nationalist movement in British Guiana led to the suspension of the constitution and the fracturing of the nationalist movement. Th e events in 1953 represented a historic reversal of the process of constitutional devolution to which the British...

..., step out of one mode of characterization at the play’s conclusion to reassume their initial presentation to the play’s audience as carnival masqueraders. This shift breaks with the drama’s artifice and momentarily disrupts the audience’s suspension of disbelief. As a result, at the play’s conclusion...

....⁴ Speaking to this point, Michel-Rolphe Trouillot ’s Silencing the Past contemplates Haiti and its suspensions in history to eloquently trace the insinuations of power in the production of history from “primary” sources to textbook syntheses.⁵ However, even as he elucidates how...

... of littérature-monde. Also, whereas the manifesto states that “francophone” authors are “caught . . . between two or several cultures,” in Haitian writing there is little sense of this cultural suspension or of a fraught, constricting relationship with France and French culture. Although many contem...