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ABSTRACT In this paper, we study for the first time the unpublished multilingual poetry written by Sanandrean linguist Oakley Forbes. We also explore his role in the translation of Juan Ramírez Dawkins’ poems. In these two unknown aspects... more

ABSTRACT
In this paper, we study for the first time the unpublished multilingual poetry written by Sanandrean linguist Oakley Forbes. We also explore his role in
the translation of Juan Ramírez Dawkins’ poems. In these two unknown aspects of Forbes’ life, we trace the relationship between writing and translation
in his double role as translator and self-translator. This study shows that writing and translating are two spheres present both in his role as a translator
of Ramírez Dawkins’ works and as a translator of his own works. When he collaborated with Ramírez Dawkins in the translation of the latter’s works,
he had the freedom to rewrite and to adapt the text in order to re-spatialize it to the writer’s other audience. The same happened with the translation of
his own poetic work, which, being written in several languages, reflects the richness and paradoxes of the encounters of diverse cultures.
Keywords: Oakley Forbes. Collaborative Translation. Self-translation. Caribbean Poetry. Literary multilingualism.

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  • Multiculturalism, Translation Studies, Multilingualism, Caribbean Literature

The Oceanic Turn: We are witnessing an interdisciplinary transition to what might be called " critical ocean studies " that reflects an important shift from a long-term concern with mobility across transoceanic surfaces to theorizing... more

The Oceanic Turn: We are witnessing an interdisciplinary transition to what might be called " critical ocean studies " that reflects an important shift from a long-term concern with mobility across transoceanic surfaces to theorizing oceanic submersion, thus rendering vast oceanic space into ontological place. This has much to do with a new oceanic imaginary emerging in the wake of the knowledge of anthropogenic climate change and sea-level rise. This turn to ontologies of the sea and its multispe-cies engagements are the focus of this paper, particularly their implications for temporality and aesthetics in the Anthropocene. The oceanic turn of the twentieth century issued from geopolitics as well as new interdisciplinary groupings in the humanities and social sciences. It can be traced to the 1945 Truman Proclamation — the most significant, and yet largely unre-marked, twentieth-century remapping of the globe — which extended U.S. territory to include a two-hundred nautical mile Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) (see DeLoughrey, Routes). This created a scramble for the oceans, catalyzing EEZ declarations by nations all over the world and a U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea that effectively remapped seventy percent of the planet. Although largely unnoticed by new disciplinary groupings such as the " Blue Humanities " (Mentz), Cold War geopolitics had a decisive influence in configuring a new understanding of the terraqueous globe. The second catalyst for the rise of critical ocean studies was the post-1970s " spatial turn, " which led to the emergence of globalization and diaspora studies. Marx-ist geography was integral to defining the post-Fordist era of global capitalism and relations of labor to space. This loosening of nationally-bounded modes of thinking about capital and space led to an unprecedented number of transoceanic studies, notably the work of Marcus Rediker, which helped to inspire Paul Gilroy's The Black Atlantic, a text that inaugurated a new generation of thinking about race in transoceanic ways.

• • by Elizabeth DeLoughrey
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  • Latin American Studies, Art History, Postcolonial Studies, Caribbean Literature

If, according to turn-of-the-twentieth-century observers, black Puerto Ricans were destined to become racially white in a few generations, how did 12.4 per cent of the population manage to remain black in 2010? And how did they survive in... more

If, according to turn-of-the-twentieth-century observers, black Puerto Ricans were destined to become racially white in a few generations, how did 12.4 per cent of the population manage to remain black in 2010? And how did they survive in the face of both national and everyday forms of racism? How is the persistence and even increase in black identity in Puerto Rico supported? This article argues that there is a covert and largely unexplored social current at work in regard to how black Puerto Ricans live and reproduce their blackness. This is the desire to maintain and celebrate blackness. Using ethnographic data gathered during nearly two decades, the article illustrate that many Puerto Ricans have chosen not to engage in blanqueamiento, instead affirming their blackness, marrying within their communities, and valuing their own cultural practices and beliefs.

• • by Hilda Lloréns
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  • Black Studies Or African American Studies, Latin American Studies, Anthropology, Latin American and Caribbean History
• • by Fanny Margras
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  • Latin American and Caribbean History, Caribbean Literature, Xavier Orville, José Donoso

The historical and cultural space of the Black Atlantic—a diasporic world of forced and voluntary migrations—has long provided fertile ground for the construction and reconstruction of new forms of classicism. From the aftermath of... more

The historical and cultural space of the Black Atlantic—a diasporic world of forced and voluntary migrations—has long provided fertile ground for the construction and reconstruction of new forms of classicism. From the aftermath of slavery up to the present day, black authors, intellectuals, and artists in the Atlantic world have shaped and reshaped the cultural legacies of classical antiquity in a rich variety of ways in order to represent their identities and experiences and reflect on modern conceptions of race, nation, and identity. The studies presented in this volume range across the anglophone, francophone, and hispanophone worlds, including literary studies of authors such as Derek Walcott, Marlene NourbeSe Philip, and Junot Díaz, biographical and historical studies, and explorations of race and classicism in the visual arts. They offer reflections on the place of classicism in contemporary conflicts and debates over race and racism, and on the intersections between classicism, race, gender, and social status, demonstrating how the legacies of ancient Greece and Rome have been used to buttress racial hierarchies, but also to challenge racism and Eurocentric reconstructions of antiquity.

• • by Ian Moyer and +2
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  • Black Studies Or African American Studies, Classics, Black/African Diaspora, African Diaspora Studies

This book examines the concept of queer theory and combines it with the field of diaspora studies. By looking at the queer diasporic narratives in and from the Caribbean, it conducts an inquiry into the workings and underpinnings of both... more

This book examines the concept of queer theory and combines it with the field of diaspora studies. By looking at the queer diasporic narratives in and from the Caribbean, it conducts an inquiry into the workings and underpinnings of both fields.

• • by Zoran Lee Pecic
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  • Postcolonial Studies, Queer Theory, Caribbean Literature, Diaspora Studies
• • by Mara de Gennaro
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  • Poetry, African Diaspora Studies, Caribbean Literature, Caribbean Studies

By employing sugar as a social metaphor, whether in narrative foreground or as backdrop, Caribbean writers confronted the oppressive histories and dark human institutions that arose together with the region’s sugar economy. This... more

By employing sugar as a social metaphor, whether in narrative foreground or as backdrop, Caribbean writers confronted the oppressive histories and dark human institutions that arose together with the region’s sugar economy. This proto-metaphor of sugar appealed to the legacy of a generational psychology as much as it did to a contemporary public conscience over the social travail that the industry generated.

• • by Joe Lockard
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  • English Literature, Latin American and Caribbean History, Caribbean Literature, Caribbean Studies
• • by Ismael Sarmiento Ramírez
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  • Cuban Studies, Caribbean Literature, Caribbean Studies, Cuban History

The English translation of Frankétienne's great Kreyòl novel, Dézafi, is slated for release by the University of Virginia Press in July 2018. As the translator of this challenging work, I am pleased that the first long work of fiction in... more

The English translation of Frankétienne's great Kreyòl novel, Dézafi, is slated for release by the University of Virginia Press in July 2018. As the translator of this challenging work, I am pleased that the first long work of fiction in the Haitian vernacular is finally available in English for scholars and the larger reading public.

• • by Asselin Charles
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  • Caribbean Literature, Haitian Literature, Modern Novel, Haitian Studies
• • by Brian Russell Roberts
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  • Latin American and Caribbean History, Pacific Island Studies, Transnationalism, Island Studies

Presentation about slavery in Suriname by the Surinamese author Cynthia McLeod, introduction by Jeroen Dewulf.

• • by Jeroen Dewulf
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  • Latin American Literature (Literature), Gender Studies, Latin American and Caribbean History, Eighteenth Century History

This paper offers a literary criticism on Michael Anthony's representation of the essence of growing up as a boy in the Caribbean Islands. In it, I argue that a level of accelerated manhood (manning-up) is a prerequisite skill that fills... more

This paper offers a literary criticism on Michael Anthony's representation of the essence of growing up as a boy in the Caribbean Islands. In it, I argue that a level of accelerated manhood (manning-up) is a prerequisite skill that fills the void of the absence father as a shared experience among most Caribbean boys growing up.

• • by Otieno Otieno
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  • Caribbean Literature
• • by Matthew Pettway
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  • Black Studies Or African American Studies, Latin American Studies, Caribbean Literature

Número especial sobre la violencia y agresión

• • by Beatriz Carolina Peña
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  • Caribbean Literature, Caribbean Studies, Dominican Studies, Military Dictatorship

This essay examines questions of home and identity in a postcolonial Caribbean context. Situating itself in the dialogue between continental philosophy and postcolonial theory, this research explores how identity formations are processes... more

This essay examines questions of home and identity in a postcolonial Caribbean context. Situating itself in the dialogue between continental philosophy and postcolonial theory, this research explores how identity formations are processes which negotiate fragmentary demands of being as well as the various ruptures and dislocations that are resultants of colonization. This paper proposes that in thinking of postcolonial identities, we must explicitly and necessarily consider multiplicity, alterity, diaspora, and interstitial spaces. Focusing on Merle Hodge's novel Crick Crack, Monkey, this essay thinks through protagonist Tee's process of becoming, a process which is fluid, dynamic, and never complete. In doing so, this research explores questions about race, enslavement, bearing witness, language, space and place, and (literal and metaphoric) diasporic movements.

• • by Amanda González Izquierdo
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  • Postcolonial Studies, African Diaspora Studies, Deconstruction, Caribbean Literature

Sycorax shapes a powerful figure and narrative thread through colonial and postcolonial thinking. This essay, written in the 1990s, lays out some of the influential ways in which the figure of Sycorax influenced postcolonial feminist... more

Sycorax shapes a powerful figure and narrative thread through colonial and postcolonial thinking. This essay, written in the 1990s, lays out some of the influential ways in which the figure of Sycorax influenced postcolonial feminist methodologies.

• • by May Joseph
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  • Cultural History, Cultural Studies, Black Studies Or African American Studies, African Studies
• • by Joanne Chassot
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  • Postcolonial Studies, Caribbean Literature, Caribbean Studies, Postcolonial Literature
• • by Rodolphe Solbiac
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  • Canadian Studies, Canadian Literature, Caribbean Literature, Postcolonial Literature
• • by Pavlína Flajšarová
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  • Caribbean Literature, Literature of the Anglophone Caribbean, Caribbean poetry

Translation by Xu Chaolin. Shanghai Jiaotong University Press, 2020.

• • by Joe Lockard
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  • Black Studies Or African American Studies, Women's Studies, Women's History, African Diaspora Studies
• • by Chinedu Nwadike
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  • English Literature, Humanities, Literature, Literary Criticism

Whatever the point of view of a particular writer, the overriding concern of the West Indian novelist or poet has been history and its oppression. West Indian literature has moved excitingly and rapidly in the last forty years, obsessed... more

Whatever the point of view of a particular writer, the overriding concern of the West Indian novelist or poet has been history and its oppression. West Indian literature has moved excitingly and rapidly in the last forty years, obsessed by a vision which, in Margaret Laurence's phrase '[looks] back into the future'. All the major West Indian writers, whatever their protestations, or wherever they choose to live, continue to be obsessed by Caribbean history and its implications even when their works are set in Africa, India, or England.

• • by Helen Tiffin
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  • Postcolonial Studies, Caribbean Literature, Postcolonial Literature, Jean Rhys

This collection takes as its starting point the ubiquitous representation of various forms of mental illness, breakdown and psychopathology in Caribbean writing, and the fact that this topic has been relatively neglected in criticism,... more

This collection takes as its starting point the ubiquitous representation of various forms of mental illness, breakdown and psychopathology in Caribbean writing, and the fact that this topic has been relatively neglected in criticism, especially in Anglophone texts, apart from the scholarship devoted to Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea (1966). The contributions to this volume demonstrate that much remains to be done in rethinking the trope of “madness” across Caribbean literature by local and diaspora writers. This book asks how focusing on literary manifestations of apparent mental aberration can extend our understanding of Caribbean narrative and culture, and can help us to interrogate the norms that have been used to categorize art from the region, as well as the boundaries between notions of rationality, transcendence and insanity across cultures.

• • by Benedicte Ledent and +2
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  • Postcolonial Studies, Caribbean Literature, Caribbean Studies, Postcolonial Literature

In Images in Print, 1988, a study of bias and prejudice in Caribbean textbooks, Ruby King and Mike Morrissey note that, although some of the countries of the Commonwealth Caribbean have been independent for twenty-five years, many aspects... more

In Images in Print, 1988, a study of bias and prejudice in Caribbean textbooks, Ruby King and Mike Morrissey note that, although some of the countries of the Commonwealth Caribbean have been independent for twenty-five years, many aspects of colonialism persist in ideas about education as reflected in syllabi and curricula, textbook choices and contents. Their study, and more general ones such as Philip Altbach’s “Education and Neocolonialism,” 1971, direct our attention to the potency of a colonialist history of education in the Caribbean, to its interactions with popular culture, specifically the relationship between oral and “literate” cultures, and to the entire history of publishing both about and in the area. In short, the importance of educational and literary models for understanding contemporary Caribbean literature and literary history is inescapable.

• • by Helen Tiffin
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  • Postcolonial Studies, Caribbean Literature, Postcolonial Literature, Environmental Humanities

De Soucouyant à Brother transmission du trauma et transmission de la culture dans l'oeuvre de l'écrivain caribéen canadien David Chariandy Rodolphe Solbiac Colloque international : La transmission dans la Caraïbe (anglophone, francophone,... more

De Soucouyant à Brother transmission du trauma et transmission de la culture dans l'oeuvre de l'écrivain caribéen canadien David Chariandy Rodolphe Solbiac Colloque international : La transmission dans la Caraïbe (anglophone, francophone, hispanophone) 5-6 avril 2019 Université Bordeaux Montaigne-CLIMAS EA 4196 / Sorbonne Université-VALE EA4085. Soucouyant (2007) premier roman publié par David Chariandy explore la question de la transmission de la mémoire culturelle caribéenne dans le contexte diasporique Canadien. Ce roman nous introduit à la question de savoir comment mener la réinvention caribéenne de soi tout en transmettant une mémoire culturelle marquée par sa colonialité et porteuse de traumatismes. Il explore en effet la difficulté que pose la conciliation de la transmission avec la nécessité de rupture et de liquidation de l'héritage colonial. La publication du roman Brother, dix ans plus tard, nous invite à explorer les caractères, les enjeux et la portée de l'évolution de la représentation de la transmission de Soucouyant à Brother. Elle nous incite à interroger les modalités selon lesquelles l'écriture de Chariandy représente la transmission la culture Caribéenne aux Caribéens Canadiens de seconde génération de même que la manière dont elle fait acte de transmission. Au moyen d'une étude comparative de l'évolution des caractères de la transmission d'un roman à l'autre cette communication montre comment l'évolution dans les formes de transmission de la culture caribéenne apporte un dépassement réparateur du modèle stéréotypé de la famille caribéenne monoparentale au Canada. Elle met en évidence les caractéristiques de l'écriture de Brother qui révèlent le passage d'une transmission genrée exclusivement féminine, orale et chaotique possédant une dimension écopoétique patrimoniale, à une transmission sur le mode de la résurgence de la mémoire culturelle musicale caribéenne qui, de plus, revalide la masculinité Caribéenne dans l'éducation.

• • by Rodolphe Solbiac
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  • Postcolonial Studies, Canadian Literature, Caribbean Literature, Caribbean Studies
• • by LuzMaria Umpierre
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  • Poetry, Gay And Lesbian Studies, Caribbean Literature, Contemporary Poetry

The paper focuses mainly on Janie’s quest to find her own self in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God. Although the novel revolves around Janie’s relationships with other people, it is first and foremost a story of Janie’s... more

The paper focuses mainly on Janie’s quest to find her own self in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God. Although the novel revolves around Janie’s relationships with other people, it is first and foremost a story of Janie’s search for spiritual enlightenment and a strong sense of her own identity. The novel is not about her quest for a life partner but rather that of her quest for a secure sense of independence. Janie’s development along the way can be charted by studying her use of language and her relationship to her own voice.

• • by Maria Merline
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  • Caribbean Literature, Indian English Literature

Reseña de la novela indigenista Mensajeros de los dioses, de José E. Muratti Toro

• • by Daniel Torres
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  • Indigenous Studies, Latin American and Caribbean History, Caribbean Literature, Caribbean Studies

Nacida en República Dominicana, es considerada la primera mujer poeta de que se tiene conocimiento en la América española.

• • by Justo Planas
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  • Caribbean Literature, Latin American Colonial Literature, Dominican literature, Poesía escrita por mujeres

Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s first book, Ti difé boulé sou istoua Ayiti [Stirring the Pot of Haitian History] (1977), exposes the foundational role of Haitian Vodou and the Kreyòl language in Haiti’s Revolution (1791-1804). This essay... more

Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s first book, Ti difé boulé sou istoua Ayiti [Stirring the Pot of Haitian History] (1977), exposes the foundational role of Haitian Vodou and the Kreyòl language in Haiti’s Revolution (1791-1804). This essay analyzes selected passages from Ti difé boulé that explicitly incorporate Vodou songs, prayers, and terminology to show how Trouillot provocatively deploys oral sources of historical narrative and memory. The young activist, writing in Haitian Kreyòl from New York City during the Duvalier dictatorship in Haiti, powerfully contests official versions of Haitian history by emphasizing the Haitian people’s agency. Vodou and Kreyòl, born out of struggle within a repressive colonial framework, are the forces underlying Haitian resistance. Ti difé boulé examines neocolonial patterns of oppression emerging during the nineteenth century and critiques revolutionary icon Toussaint Louverture, revealing how Haiti’s predatory State harnessed Vodou to continue systematically subjugating the Haitian people. Trouillot’s innovative yet understudied masterpiece offers contemporary readers “new narratives” (Ulysse, 2015) of Haiti. As twin pillars of Haitian resistance and cultural identity, Vodou and Kreyòl remain a vital and vibrant part of the American heritage. They merit more nuanced understandings within a cultural and political context where they have increasingly come under siege, inside and outside of Haiti.

• • by Mariana Past
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  • Latin American and Caribbean History, Caribbean Literature, Haiti, Haitian Revolution
• • by Paul Humphrey
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  • Latin American Studies, Queer Studies, Caribbean Literature, Caribbean Studies

En este trabajo se estudian las características particulares del proyecto editorial y literario que, desde 1985, viene desarrollando Ediciones Vigía. La reflexión se centra en el análisis la obra Los graduados de Kafka (2008), del autor... more

En este trabajo se estudian las características particulares del proyecto editorial y literario que, desde 1985, viene desarrollando Ediciones Vigía. La reflexión se centra en el análisis la obra Los graduados de Kafka (2008), del autor cubano Jorge Ángel Hernández Pérez, por medio de la cuál se exploran y distuten las características artesanales y los componentes artísticos que otorgan una intensidad dramática al contenido del libro. Se discuten aspectos paralelos como la apropiación, la forma en la que los libros de artista demandan una la relación diferente de sus lectores, la distribución y elaboración de libros artesanales y el papel particular que, en este caso, tiene la intervención del editor y los diseñadores. Asimismo, se reflexiona sobre las referencias cruzadas entre lo que se denomina «kafkiano», los elementos intertextuales y el mundo en el que se desarrollan los relatos que componen la obra de Hernández Pérez.

• • by Alexandra Saavedra Galindo
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  • Comparative Literature, Intertextuality And Plagiarism, Caribbean Literature, Intertextuality
• • by Benedicte Ledent
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  • African Diaspora Studies, Caribbean Literature, Postcolonial Literature, Black British literature

En este trabajo se realiza un recuento y análisis de los datos que se conocen sobre la plaza ceremonial Taina de mayor importancia a nivel caribeño, ademas se identifican y exponen las secuelas culturales de la cultura taina arraigadas en... more

En este trabajo se realiza un recuento y análisis de los datos que se conocen sobre la plaza ceremonial Taina de mayor importancia a nivel caribeño, ademas se identifican y exponen las secuelas culturales de la cultura taina arraigadas en la cotidianidad de los moradores de la provincia de San Juan de la Maguana.

• • by anelgustavo pineda
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  • History, Cultural History, Indigenous Studies, Latin American and Caribbean History

Cambridge SP press release for Fall 2018 book release. Some sections can be read on Google books.

• • by Gregory Stephens
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  • Creative Nonfiction, Comparative Religion, Cultural Studies, Comparative Literature

First and second generation Caribbean students are affected by their social and cultural environment.This article explores the involvement of parents of title one middle schoolers, most of whom are minority economically disadvantaged and... more

First and second generation Caribbean students are affected by their social and cultural environment.This article explores the involvement of parents of title one middle schoolers, most of whom are minority economically disadvantaged and different from the dominant culture.In the process of assimilating into the American mainstream many Caribbean parents have deprived their children of the richness of their cultural identity,sacrificing their history and traditions on the altar of American popular culture.

• • by Serena Hewitt
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  • Caribbean Literature
• • by Irene Lara
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  • Sociology, Cultural Studies, Latino/A Studies, American Studies
• • by Eliana Vagalau
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  • Caribbean Literature, Literature and Politics, Globalization And Postcolonial Studies, Francophone Literature
• • by Andrani Samuel
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  • Comparative Literature, Caribbean Literature, Charlotte Brontë, Women and Gender Studies

Samuel Selvon’s A Brighter Sun has been largely approached in terms of Selvon’s use of language and his social themes. In this paper, I start from the premise that approaching Selvon’s text from a gendered, masculinity studies perspective... more

Samuel Selvon’s A Brighter Sun has been largely approached in terms of Selvon’s use of language and his social themes. In this paper, I start from the premise that approaching Selvon’s text from a gendered, masculinity studies perspective produces alternative insights into this text. I focus on protagonist Tiger’s journey from boyhood to manhood and argue that, through his depiction of Tiger’s engagement with his culture, Selvon constructs a central metaphor where the tenor is masculinity and the vehicle is prison. To examine Selvon’s representation of Tiger’s journey, I utilize Michel Foucault’s idea of the panoptic and Judith Butler’s notion of gender as performance, suggesting that Selvon develops a carceral conception of normative Indo masculinity, supervising and restricting Tiger.

• • by Janice Cools
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  • Men's Studies, Composition and Rhetoric, Caribbean Literature, Rhetorical Criticism