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Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, 2003
Notre Librairie Revue Des Litteratures D Afrique Des Caraibes Et De L Ocean Indien Cultures Sud, 2008
Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, 2005
Callaloo, 2002
... The Rasta was right, the minute Trevor pressed the buzzer, the door opened, and a heavy molas... more ... The Rasta was right, the minute Trevor pressed the buzzer, the door opened, and a heavy molasses voice said, "Come in." Inside the house ... Way, the Truth and The Light-Mini Mart,"through the bamboo canopy, over the Saddle and into a valley called Orange Vale, not because ...
In the opening pages of Gisele Pineau's, L'Esperance macadam,1 the narrator's languag... more In the opening pages of Gisele Pineau's, L'Esperance macadam,1 the narrator's language is broken, fragmented, as the body of the text itself reflects the passing of a cyclone or as it is called in the novel, "Le passage de La Bete." There is a direct link between the violence and violation of the woman's body by the "Beast," which in the novel is both man and cyclone, man as cyclone, and the Guadeloupean landscape. This synchronie force not only razes the landscape, destroying vegetation and homes, but also is used metaphorically to describe analogous acts of violence by men against the physical landscape of the female body. The novel begins and ends with a cyclone, and it is within this seasonal, cyclical, or what I would like to call cyclonic structure, that Pineau takes us into the community of Savane. Pineau is preoccupied, in L 'Esperance macadam, with the violence and victimization of the Antillean woman; and, with few exceptions, there ...
The bicentenary of Haitian independence in 2004 triggered a renewed interest in Haitian history a... more The bicentenary of Haitian independence in 2004 triggered a renewed interest in Haitian history and culture. In many ways, however, much work is still required in this fertile field. "Reinterpreting the Haitian Revolution and Its Cultural Aftershocks", the first collection of essays edited by Martin Munro and Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw, addressed the repercussions of the Haitian Revolution in Haiti, the Caribbean, North America and Europe. This present volume develops and complements the previous collection to meet the growing demand for original scholarly work on Haiti. Widening the cultural lens to include diasporic studies, art, and questions of race and gender, "Echoes of the Haitian Revolution" exposes how the history of Haiti has shaped our ideas of race, nation and civilization in ways that we are often unaware of. Haiti's lessons continue to engage us in a dynamic dialog that compels us to question and revisit received arguments. The essays collected ...
In the opening pages of Gisèle Pineau’s, L’Espérance–macadam, the female narrator’s language is b... more In the opening pages of Gisèle Pineau’s, L’Espérance–macadam, the female narrator’s language is broken, fragmented, as the body of the text itself reflects the passing of a cyclone or, as it is called in the novel, ‘Le passage de La Bête’. There is a direct link between the violence and violation of the woman’s body by the ‘Beast’, which in the novel is both man and cyclone — man as cyclone — and the Guadeloupean landscape. This dual force not only razes the landscape, destroying vegetation and homes, but is used metaphorically to describe analogous acts of violence by men against the physical landscape of the female body. The novel begins and ends with a cyclone and it is within this seasonal, cyclical or what I would like to call cyclonic, structure that Pineau takes us into the community of Savane. This journal article is available in Kunapipi: http://ro.uow.edu.au/kunapipi/vol26/iss1/12
Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Callaloo, 1999
... where the ducks came from.". Nana looked up and smiled, not a nice smile but one that we... more ... where the ducks came from.". Nana looked up and smiled, not a nice smile but one that we all knew in the yard. A wide pink and gold smile that showed off gums and two gold teeth. [End Page 431]. Earlier that morning Miss Mc ...
... The Rasta was right, the minute Trevor pressed the buzzer, the door opened, and a heavy molas... more ... The Rasta was right, the minute Trevor pressed the buzzer, the door opened, and a heavy molasses voice said, "Come in." Inside the house ... Way, the Truth and The Light-Mini Mart,"through the bamboo canopy, over the Saddle and into a valley called Orange Vale, not because ...
Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, 2005
Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, 2008
This article explores the poetics of return in Edwidge Danticat's The Dew Breaker and... more This article explores the poetics of return in Edwidge Danticat's The Dew Breaker and her latest work, Brother, I'm Dying. Focusing on the roles of memory, imagination, borrowed recollections, and autobiography, the article illustrates how Danticat writes this return in her work, the landscape she creates, and the people in it. If home, as the article argues, has always been
Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, 2005
... You're a virgin right? You didn't lie to me? I'm going to hurt you badly, very... more ... You're a virgin right? You didn't lie to me? I'm going to hurt you badly, very badly, but you won't say a word." He forced himself into me with one terrible, brutal thrust and immediately groaned with pleasure. ... Her short stories have appeared in Callaloo and Small Axe. ...
Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, 2003
Notre Librairie Revue Des Litteratures D Afrique Des Caraibes Et De L Ocean Indien Cultures Sud, 2008
Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, 2005
Callaloo, 2002
... The Rasta was right, the minute Trevor pressed the buzzer, the door opened, and a heavy molas... more ... The Rasta was right, the minute Trevor pressed the buzzer, the door opened, and a heavy molasses voice said, "Come in." Inside the house ... Way, the Truth and The Light-Mini Mart,"through the bamboo canopy, over the Saddle and into a valley called Orange Vale, not because ...
In the opening pages of Gisele Pineau's, L'Esperance macadam,1 the narrator's languag... more In the opening pages of Gisele Pineau's, L'Esperance macadam,1 the narrator's language is broken, fragmented, as the body of the text itself reflects the passing of a cyclone or as it is called in the novel, "Le passage de La Bete." There is a direct link between the violence and violation of the woman's body by the "Beast," which in the novel is both man and cyclone, man as cyclone, and the Guadeloupean landscape. This synchronie force not only razes the landscape, destroying vegetation and homes, but also is used metaphorically to describe analogous acts of violence by men against the physical landscape of the female body. The novel begins and ends with a cyclone, and it is within this seasonal, cyclical, or what I would like to call cyclonic structure, that Pineau takes us into the community of Savane. Pineau is preoccupied, in L 'Esperance macadam, with the violence and victimization of the Antillean woman; and, with few exceptions, there ...
The bicentenary of Haitian independence in 2004 triggered a renewed interest in Haitian history a... more The bicentenary of Haitian independence in 2004 triggered a renewed interest in Haitian history and culture. In many ways, however, much work is still required in this fertile field. "Reinterpreting the Haitian Revolution and Its Cultural Aftershocks", the first collection of essays edited by Martin Munro and Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw, addressed the repercussions of the Haitian Revolution in Haiti, the Caribbean, North America and Europe. This present volume develops and complements the previous collection to meet the growing demand for original scholarly work on Haiti. Widening the cultural lens to include diasporic studies, art, and questions of race and gender, "Echoes of the Haitian Revolution" exposes how the history of Haiti has shaped our ideas of race, nation and civilization in ways that we are often unaware of. Haiti's lessons continue to engage us in a dynamic dialog that compels us to question and revisit received arguments. The essays collected ...
In the opening pages of Gisèle Pineau’s, L’Espérance–macadam, the female narrator’s language is b... more In the opening pages of Gisèle Pineau’s, L’Espérance–macadam, the female narrator’s language is broken, fragmented, as the body of the text itself reflects the passing of a cyclone or, as it is called in the novel, ‘Le passage de La Bête’. There is a direct link between the violence and violation of the woman’s body by the ‘Beast’, which in the novel is both man and cyclone — man as cyclone — and the Guadeloupean landscape. This dual force not only razes the landscape, destroying vegetation and homes, but is used metaphorically to describe analogous acts of violence by men against the physical landscape of the female body. The novel begins and ends with a cyclone and it is within this seasonal, cyclical or what I would like to call cyclonic, structure that Pineau takes us into the community of Savane. This journal article is available in Kunapipi: http://ro.uow.edu.au/kunapipi/vol26/iss1/12
Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Callaloo, 1999
... where the ducks came from.". Nana looked up and smiled, not a nice smile but one that we... more ... where the ducks came from.". Nana looked up and smiled, not a nice smile but one that we all knew in the yard. A wide pink and gold smile that showed off gums and two gold teeth. [End Page 431]. Earlier that morning Miss Mc ...
... The Rasta was right, the minute Trevor pressed the buzzer, the door opened, and a heavy molas... more ... The Rasta was right, the minute Trevor pressed the buzzer, the door opened, and a heavy molasses voice said, "Come in." Inside the house ... Way, the Truth and The Light-Mini Mart,"through the bamboo canopy, over the Saddle and into a valley called Orange Vale, not because ...
Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, 2005
Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, 2008
This article explores the poetics of return in Edwidge Danticat's The Dew Breaker and... more This article explores the poetics of return in Edwidge Danticat's The Dew Breaker and her latest work, Brother, I'm Dying. Focusing on the roles of memory, imagination, borrowed recollections, and autobiography, the article illustrates how Danticat writes this return in her work, the landscape she creates, and the people in it. If home, as the article argues, has always been
Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, 2005
... You're a virgin right? You didn't lie to me? I'm going to hurt you badly, very... more ... You're a virgin right? You didn't lie to me? I'm going to hurt you badly, very badly, but you won't say a word." He forced himself into me with one terrible, brutal thrust and immediately groaned with pleasure. ... Her short stories have appeared in Callaloo and Small Axe. ...