...Faith Smith Small Axe Incorporated 2001 “You Know You’re West Indian if . . Codes of Authenticity in Colin Channer’s Waiting in Vain Faith Smith he moment that makes Colin Channer’s Waiting in Vain possible is marked by the anxieties of a global Caribbean community...

... of Colin Channer's novel Waiting in Vain —a blend of erotic and urban romances that the essay terms “urban romantica”—in conversation with its content. Reading Waiting in Vain through its form as well as its Amazon.com evaluations shows inordinate attention to the act of choosing an identity, particularly...

...Curdella Forbes This article addresses a concept of individualism that has emerged in some contemporary Caribbean fictions. I examine the evidence of this in a general way and then with reference to Jamaica Kincaid's Mr. Potter and Colin Channer's Waiting in Vain . I suggest...

... de bien et de mal, qu’il ait au moins cette gloire d’avoir exterminé l’esclavage et d’avoir fait de l’égalité des hommes, non pas un vain mot, mais une féconde et glorieuse vérité ! « Depuis quatre-vingts ans, ajoute-t-il, il s’est établi dans le monde un tribunal qui a plus fait pour le triomphe de...

... not been diluted by cross-cultural impacts. Vain assaults, those of the mighty Vatican. All the contempt of civilized “modernity” could do little to stamp out their drumming. Some thought that containment would do them in! But how insolent! They frown at nothing for on the high seas they roam. Light...

... attention. The business of the intelligibility of lyrics is crucial. A good example of the problem of misinterpretation or “multiple interpretations,” as Bakare-Yusuf would prefer, is evidenced in the challenge to my reading of Bob Marley’s “Waiting in Vain” that Stanley Niaah offers. In my...

... Poems (2006). She has also published two collections of short stories, Baby Mother and the King of Swords (1990) and Fool-Fool Rose Is Leaving Labour-in-Vain Savannah (2005). Her paintings have been exhibited throughout the Americas and in Europe. She currently teaches in the Depart- ment...

... “Rock Away” did not lead me to conclude that, “there is little of value in the contemporary Dancehall scene” (79). My reading of Marley’s “Waiting in Vain” did not suggest the themes of whore and pathos, no sadness or tragedy. In fact, the protagonist is even relishing the anticipation and waiting...

... loved us all. So, we went to church, and even though I begged Jesus Christ to make Gran cover her face with her winter scarf when singing hymns like “Th ey’ll Know We Are Chris- tians by Our Love my Lord showed me no such vain mercies. I remember going over excuses...

.... It is not, and has never been , what it claims to be.” 2 I am fully on board, I think, with these sobering readings of the present, and the past that is said to have produced it, until I read a text like Marlon James's A Brief History of Seven Killings and find myself looking (in vain) for the partisan clues...

... en vain d’en savoir plus sur le passé de sa belle-sœur ; son interlocutrice sans cesse se dérobe et esquive les questions de celui-ci en lui opposant le silence ou en répondant par de nouvelles questions. — Claire, est-ce que tu m’écoutes ? — . . . — Elle...

... to a creative freedom, an openness to experience and even a certain vulnerability that prevented him from settling into the complacency of the successful, established writer. Edouard was a proud man, and he could be endearingly vain, but he was never pompous or narcissistic. He went on writing right...

... on anybody’s pay sheet. Here is another confession: I am tickled to find myself in the same sentence as Wilson Harris, Houston Baker, and Homi Bhabha, names that, like that of the great God, you do not take in vain. How could I then be so crass and ungrateful that I take it to heart...

..., the reversal of fortune, the turn of the screw, the cruel hand of fate. Waiting for the plot to finally reveal itself after working so hard, secretly, behind the scenes. Realizing too late that all your actions have been in vain, that there was nothing you could have done, that things were always going to turn...

... is “brave, vain, pragmatic, ferocious, hurt and hurting” Monica (327). These are days so long the sun seems always overhead, a hefted medallion hanging in the sky. . . . These are the days in a country’s life when the air is so still it collects in folds, drapes itself through...

... to turn around—“They claimed that it would make us lose our memory” (100)—as does the heiress, more than two hundred years later, during her reverse journey: “The day begins on this road. Seven. Seven times I turn around the tree. In vain. Nobody. . . . What does it take to get the memory to work...

... dem no plant no gungo a line. But mi ha fi agree wid Bill Clinton: “It’s arithmetic.” A no so-so politics. 7 In English: You know what’s Jamaica’s big problem? You all are much too vain and greedy. You are behaving as if you have huge oil reserves like Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago...

...,—that you may look in vain for verification of ethnological assertions. . . . No: this is a special race, peculiar to the island as are the shapes of its peaks. 18 Hearn’s thinking here reveals a special concern for the singularity of creole hybridity, which Confiant and his coauthors would revise...

... for his impotence, his failure to take decisive action: Because up till now I've done destroyed built dared nothing unlike the Jew the Yellow man for the mass organized escape from inferiority In vain I seek the hollow of a shoulder to hide my face my shame at Reality. 50...

... and the brave Abjuration of William the Silent. We, who searched our history books in vain for the names of the rebels Boni, Baron, Joli Coeur, did our utmost so that, when the exam came, we could quickly and accurately rattle of the names and dates of the Dutch governors under whose administrations our fathers...