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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...

...James Robertson “Rewriting Dr. No ” reappraises the unexpected success of the first James Bond film and its depictions of colonial Jamaica just prior to independence. Recasting Ian Fleming's novel into a film prompted rewritings and alterations. Some reflect the transition to a script; others...

...— This Island Now (1966) and The View from Coyaba (1985)—fictionalize the transition to independence in the anglophone Caribbean and how that transition related to the set of concerns unfolding across the rest of the black world. This essay traces Abrahams’s thought on questions of race and decolonization...

... in what Nettleford could not have interpreted at the time. Using surveillance reports from the “migrated archives” in the UK, the author shows that the intensifying concern with anticommunism that grew throughout the 1950s undergirded a transition in the approach toward Rastafari on the part...

...Carter Mathes This article examines transnational circulations of Afro-Jamaican and African-American political culture during 1960s and 1970s (roughly encompassing Jamaican independence, the transitions between Black Power and post–Black-Power era United States, and the year of escalating political...

...Max Hantel “The intellectual journey,” Edouard Glissant reminds us, “is destined to have a geographical itinerary.” This essay considers Glissant's insistence on a poetics of landscape in the case of translation, a practice that intertwines linguistic transition with the spatial residue of its...

...Jafari S. Allen This short appreciation of Citizenship from Below: Erotic Agency and Caribbean Freedom by Mimi Sheller—one of the leading theorists of mobility studies and the author of numerous works that have expanded our understanding of transits to and around the Caribbean—emphasizes...

...Robert A. Hill This essay examines the role played by George Beckford in grappling critically with the complicated legacy of the plantation system. It focuses on the transition from his role in the New World group to his participation in the Abeng newspaper group in Jamaica, in 1969. The essay...

... chart Wynter's intellectual journey and rehearse the progression from a cultural concern to a seemingly more profound interrogation of the human, this essay suspends this narrative transition in order to traverse the conceptual field from which Wynter's “Black Metamorphosis” emerges. Focusing...

... focusing on the African continent and its diaspora, the essay makes reference to the historical antecedents of cultural journals, both online and offline, including Transition , Kwani! , and Chimurenga Chronic , and debates some of the challenges facing online publishing, such as editorial control...

... the most important unpublished nonfiction work by an anglophone Caribbean intellectual and is the major guide to the transition in Wynter's thought between her work mainly on the Caribbean and black America in the 1960s and 1970s and her theory of the human from the early 1980s onward. Not only does...

... to a satisfying transition of that work from one language to another. Copyright © 2018 Small Axe, Inc. 2018 Glissant translation opacity author/translator relationship Mahagony There has been a lot of argument about what the “task of the translator” might be. Ideas about it seem to change...

..., since it captures languages in transit toward other languages and other contexts, creolization embodies the points of contact among what Naoki Sakai calls the “uncountable languages within the literary texts,” unlocking novel ideas of language and literature. The essay offers “translational reading...

... these questions to critique The Price of Slavery for what it does not say. Rather, I am interested in how further reflection on the inextricable relationship between capitalist accumulation and racial differentiation might complicate what the book does say, especially with respect to “the problem of transition...

.... 22 “I have read your work periodically, as a political and emotional survival drive, mainly in my transition processes, from a Cuban ‘citizen’ to a migrant student on the southeast Mexican border; from woman to queer person to nonbinary transmasculine boy”; Tito Mitjans Alayoń, “Audre Lorde Now...

..., in Marx’s analysis, in the historical transition to the global preponderance of the capitalist social form. If in my book I largely ignored the many references to slavery in Marx’s Grundrisse , this was not merely because the latter lacks the systematic degree of apodictic demonstration of a social logic...

... My Bones and My Flute would seem to fit this pattern, its publication in the 1950s coinciding with the transition between the end of the “long” nineteenth-century cycle of accumulation and the beginning of the postwar global economic boom. In the Caribbean, the pressures of this transitional period...

..., listened to whips, and played dead. Occasionally, they could talk to their neighbors. Rarely, they could look outside. In the absence of light, her ancestors moved. The annihilation went unnoticed. The transition from horizontal to vertical travel had opened the third dimension...

... and the Caribbean between 1781 and 1820. Their work is published in Representations, Women and Performance , and Transition , and in Caribbean Literature in Transition: 1800–1920 (2021), the first volume of three in the Cambridge series. K edon W illis is assistant professor of English at CUNY–City...