Caribbean Quarterly
- Mona Campus, Jamaica University of the West indies
Volume 49, Nos. 1 & 2 March - June 2003
Foreword ix Rex Nettleford
Editorial xi Esther Figueroa
The Middle Passage 1 Esther Figueroa
Celebration of Life: John Joseph Maria Figueroa 2 John peter Figueroa
Two poems by John Figueroa 6 Love Leaps Here... Hartlands/Heartlands
Remembrance 9 Frank getlein
Excerpts of John Figueroa's Holy Cross Letters 11 to His Parent
Remembrance - The Education of a Poet 20 Joseph Cunneen
Three Poems by John Figueroa 22 The Garden Gate Accompaniment A prayer for D.G.M.A.F.
Poem by Philip Nanton 25 Dorothy and the Boys A Celebration of the life of Dorothy Grace Murray Alenander Figueroa Dorothy Anna Figueroa Jarvis 26
Unpublished Poetry Excerpts by Dorothy Alexander Figueroa 29
Four Poems by Cecil Gray 36 Swift Moving Water Amen Lucky One To Wonder At
Two Remembrances Green Hills and Purple Prose: Remembering the Past Mavis Burke 41 A Tribute - Christopher Pym 42
Three Poems by Pamela Mordecai 44 Patriarch Convent Girl Serafina
Fiction by Mavis Burke 49 Park Home: Tale of a Bench and Bag Lady
Two Poems by John Figueroa 53 SILENCE and the WORD Problems of a Writer who does not Quite A Poem by Derek Walcott 56 Nearing Forty
Poem by John Figueroa 60 Invaders
Interviews with John Figueroa 61 Philip Nanton Erika J.Waters (The Caribbean Writer)
A Poem by John Figueroa 75 Cosmopolitan Pig
Three Poems by Louise Bennett 77 Uriah preach Dutty Tough Colonisation in Reserse Excerpt from "A Passage to Some other Place: Finding the Caribbean on a boat and learning in London about Caribbean Attitudes." John Figueroa 81
Four Poems by James Berry 83 Drawn to water Looking at the Painting Fin l' Arabesque by Edgar Degas Sharing is an Open Game Haiku Moments 1
A Poem by John Agard 86 Equatic Beyond the Margins
A Poem by Grace Nichols 91 Wings
Two Remembrances Figueroan Fragment 94 John NewBould John Figueroa - A man o' Pairts 96 Alastair Niven
Fiction by Vanessa Spence 100 The Quick Visit
Three Poems by John Figueroa 113 The Dance A portrait of a Woman ( and a Man) Birth Is
Three Poems by Esther Figueroa 117 the sound of rain the terror of remembering the gift of forgetting
Fiction by Alexei Figueroa 119 Papi in Zion
A Poem by Nara Anderson Figueroa 120 My Imaginary Composition
Remembrance - If I Die... 121 Marshall Morris
Five Poems by John Figueroa 126 Two From Cidra That green would grow in Me Clarity Yes I Recall The Garden, Green and Great
A Poem by Gloria Escoffrey 130 House and Home
Two Poems by Velma Pollard 133 Old Town Montserrat Train to Venice
Three Poems by John Figueroa 136 The The Facade of the Eglise de Brou On Seeing the Reflection of the Notre Dame in the Seine The White, The Green and The Red
A Poem by mervyn Morris 138 A Chant Against Death
A Poem by Edward Baugh 139 Walking into Jerusalem
Extract of a Letter Ralph Thompson from John Figueroa 144
Two Poems by Ralph Thompson 142 This New Light Espousals
Three Poems by John Figueroa 144 The Little Boy at Dawn You Cannot Hear Silence Brou III
Fiction by Christine Craig 147 The Queen of Sheba
Three Poems by John Figueroa 161 Birthday Poem 1970 On Losing Grips Ignoring Hurts
Three Poems by Honor Ford - Smith 162 Anna Taurus Daddy the Divine A Place Called Home
Fiction by Oliver Senior 166 The Pain Tree
Four Poems by John Figueroa 174 The Descent to Water Pastores For and After Sappho Hespera (After Sappho)
Six Poems by Jane King Hippolyte 177 Same Circus, second year Geography for Robert On Whether it Has to Have Palm Trees to be in Caribbean Poetry The Performer gets some Comfort from a Tree The Performer's Prayer in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine I'll Tell You One Thing for Free
Poem by Ian McDonald 181 A Simple Man
Two Poems by E.A. Markham 183 Malice The Secret
Six Poems by John Figueroa 186 Closure Goodbye (After Lorca) I Will Plant Morning Glories where You Lie Epitaph Too late... Spring Feast
Bibliography of John Figueroa's Major Works 191
Notes on Contributors 192
Information for Contributors 196
Volume 49 No.4 December 2003
Foreword iii
Introduction: Public Health and the Imperial Project 1 Juanita De Barros, Sean Stilwell
Quarantine in the Fort Ozama Dungeon: The Control of Prostitution 12 Rebecca Lord
A new 'Imperial Disease': The Influenza Pandemic of 30 1918-1919 and its Impact on the British Empire David Killingray
For the Children? A Preliminary Analysis of 50 Health-Related Issues Discussed at the 1921 Educational Conference in Trinidad Janice M.Mayers
Sanitation and Civilization in Georgetown, British Guiana 65 Juanita De Barros
A Different Intervention: The International Health Commission/Board, Health, Sanitation in the British Caribbean, 1914 - 1930 87 Rita Pemberton
Gendered Health Care: Legacies of Slavery In Health 104 Care Provision in Barbados Over The Period 1870-1920 Pedro L.V. Welch
BOOK REVIEWS 121
BOOKS RECEIVED 134
Information on Contributors 137
Instructions for Authors 138
Volume 50 No. 3 September 2004
Political Economy Aspects of a Developmental State 1 Framework for the Bahamas Nikolaos Karagiannis
Arguing Over the "Caribbean": Tourism on Costa 25 Rica's Caribbean Coast Moji Anderson
The Recalcitrant Muse: Race, Sex and Historical Tension in the Search for the West Indian (Trans) subject 47 Shona N. Jackson
A forgotten Forum: The Forum Quarterly and the Development of West Indian Literature 63 Carl Wade
BOOK REVIEWS 74 Books Received 91 Notes on Contributors 94
Abstracts 95
Information for Contributors 97
Volume 50 No.4 December 2004
The Haitian Revolution and Jamaica 1790s - 1834 1 Dave St. A. Gosse
Education and Society in Haiti 1804 - 1843 14 Carl Campbell
Vive 1804; The Haitian Revolution and the 25 Revolutionary Generation of 1946 Matthew J. Smith
Language, Culture and Power. Communication and Society 42 under the Duvaliers R.Anthony Lewis
"I am Sorry: a visit to Haiti" 52 Patricia Mohammed
The Tree that does not hide the Forest: Raoul Peck's 63 Aesthetical and Political Approach to Cinema Marie - Jose N'Zengou - Taya
Book Reviews 72 Books Received 83 Notes on Editor and Contributors 86
Information for Contributors 87
Volume 51 No. 1 March 2005
Caribbean Identity and Integration in the Work of Nicolas 1 Guillen Keith Ellis
Global Tourism and Caribbean Culture 15 David Bennett with Sophie Gebhardt
Woodrow Wilson and Nicaragua 25 Benjeman Harrison
Marcus Garvey, Race Uplift and his Vision of Jamaican 37 Self-government Nicholas Patsides
Revisiting Chinese Hybridity: Negotiating Categories 53 and Re-constructing Ethnicity in Contemporary Jamaica - a Preliminary Report Yoshiko Shibata
Volume 51 No. 2 June 2005
Subjectivity, Difference and Commonalities in the Context of Gender in the Caribbean 1 C. Jama Adams
Preparing Union Men for change 14 Marva Phillips
Arguing Over the "Caribbean": Tourism on Costa 31 Rica's Caribbean Coast Moji Anderson
Resisting definitive interpretation: Seeing the story of 53 the Exodus through Caribbean (ite) eyes Anna Kasafi Perkins
The many faces of Rasta: Doctrinal Diversity within 67 the Rastafari Movement Michael Barnett
The Folk Roots of Jamaican Cultural Identity 79 Edward Seaga
Volume 53 Nos. 1&2 March - June 2007
ADDRESS: Cannibal scholars, native informants and smugglers of disqualified knowledge: performing the Caribbean in the Northern academy Honor Ford-Smith 8
KEYNOTE: Applied theatre: Pure of heart - naively complicit Peter O' Connoe 23
KEYNOTE: Drama in education: finding self, finding "home" Urvashi Sahni 37
KEYNOTE: "You're not allowed to say that" Minefields and political correctness Judith Ackroyd, Andy Pilkinton 49
Mediatised performance and theatre for young people: how TYP is responding to digital natives Michael Anderson 63
The Bufoon and representation: the case of 'Oliver' in Jamaican theatre. Tanya Batson-Savage 76
Processing Post - Colonialism: using drama to produce multifaceted art experiences from notionally mono-cultural material. Pamela Bowell and Brain S. Heap 84
Parallel space but disparate usage negotiating language use in a bilingual society Jeanette Campbell 95
When inuit suclpture opens into stories Francine Chaine 104
Contesting space and power through digital drama research: colonial histories, postcolonial interrogations Kathleen Gallagher, Isabelle Kim 115
The creative ethos of the African diaspora: performance aesthetics and the fight for freedom and identity Clinton Hutton 127
Emancipating Shakespeare: cultural transmission or cultural transformation? Alistair Martin-Smith, Annette Hayton and Maya Ishiura 150
Permission to speak? Briar O' Connor 160
The ARROW programme : genesis, ideas, growth and aspiration David Oddie 168
A quantitative research method in reception theory in reception theory in international theatre case studies Dan Olsen 181
From neocolonial to postcolonial: implications for the practice of theatre for development Tim Prentki 194
Creative teaching - teaching creativity Aud Berggraf Soeebo, Laura A. McCammon, Larry O'Farrell 205
Postcolonialism, positioning and the use of drama in the teaching of French Jean Small 216
Nian - the story of Chinese Jeffrey Tan 222
Volume 53 Nos. 3 September 2007
An analysis of the type and content of TV Ads in the 2002 Jamaican General Election 1 Christopher A.D. Charles
Stepping out of the Kumbla – Kincaid’s AIDS narrative, ‘My brother’ 16 Lorna Down
Liminal Anansi: Symbol of Order and Chaos An exploration of Anansi’s Roots amongst the Asante of Ghana 30 Emily Zobel Marshall
Diasporic transnationalism: relocation Montserratians in the UK 41 Gertrude Shotte
Creolization and the search for identity in Caribbean Philosophy 70 Lawrence O. Bamikole
Volume 53 Nos. 4 December 2007
Calling all singers, musicians and speechmakers: Mento Aesthetics and Jamaica’s early recording industry 1
Daniel T. Neely
Forging identity and community through Aestheticism and entertainment: the sound system and the rise of the DJ 16
Clinton Hutton
Punching for recognition: the juke box in the promotion of popular Jamaicans music 32
Dennis Howard
Brown girl in the ring: Margarita and Malungu 47
Herbie Miller
Ernest Ranglin: Creative activist, initiator, innovator, living legend 75
Marjorie Whylie
The social and aesthetic roots and identity of Ska: Interview with Garth White 80
Volume 55, Nos. 1 & 2 March - June 2008
POEM The Yellow Cemetery Derek Walcott 1 History, Fable and Myth in the Caribbean and Guianas 5 Wilson Harris
POEMS Negus Kamau Brathwaite 39 Sweat and the Lash Nicholas Guillen 42 Sometimes – in the Middle of a story Edward Baugh 43 Passage Kumar Mahibir 45 I Shall Remember H.D. Carberry 47 Return Frank Collymore 49 A Place Called Home Honor Ford-Smith 51 At home the Green remains John Figueroa 52 Colonization in Reserve Louise Bennett 53
Opening Address – Caribbean Conference on Culture honouring Rex Nettleford 55 Goorge Lamming
POEMS Men of Ideas Roger Mais 73 Tomb of a Hero: NWM Basil McFarlane 76 Rilke(for Mardi) Wayne Brown 78 Creolization in the making of the Americas 81 Edouard Glissant
POEMS Balled for Soweto Jan Carew 91 No word does you justice Robert F. Retemar 94 Because the dawn breaks Merle Collins 95 Grenada 1983 Rachel Manley 97 Ethtiopian Soldier Earl McKenzie 98 Letter from Jamaica Howard Fergus 99
Landscape with faces 101 John Hearne
POEMS To wonder at Cecil Gray 131 From a MS the summer of Lilacs Anthony McNeill 132 Worthing – Midnight Slade Hopkinson 133 Fugue Neville Dawes 135 Bun Down Crossroads Lorna Goodison 137 The new man Brian Chan 138 Ole times Paul Douglas 139 Espousals Ralph Thompson 140
Where have all the feminists gone? 141 June Castello
POEMS Revelation H.A.Vaughan 157 The best philosophers I know Velma Pollard 158 Journey AnnMargaret Lim 162
STORY – The PAIN TREE – 165 Oliver Senior
POEMS A plume of dust Marguerite Wyke 175 After the carnival Dennis Scott 176 Cricket grounds, Plymouth Lloyd W. Brown 177
Two lectures by C.L.R. James 179
POEMS Application and reply Mark McWatt 186 Faculty of Arts Bridget Jones 188 For Elsa Goveia Mervyn Morris 189 Chapel gradens – UWI Pam Mordecai 190 Student at year’s end Alma Mock Yen 191
Sir Phillip Sherlock 193 Rex Nettleford Year’s ending 197
Volume 54, No. 3 September 2008
Science for the people 1 Lloye Coke
A clear human footprint in the coral reefs of the Caribbean 11 Camilo Mora
A journey through the medicinal plant industry of the Caribbean Highlighting UWI’s contribution 27 Sylvia A. Mitchell, Rani-Devi Jagnarine, Raxon Simmonds, Taja Francis, David Picking and Mohammed H. Ahmad
Interviews with Professor Hugh Wynter 53 Joan Meade and Pansy Hamilton
Notes and Comments The climate studies group Mona: 85 Tannecia S. Stephenson, A. Anthony Chen, Michael A. Taylor
Volume 54, No. 4 December 2008
The U.W.I. and the teaching of West Indian History 1 Elsa Goveia
Women’s lives and labour on Radnor, a Jamacia Coffee Plantation, 1822-1826 7 James A. Delle
Anna Heegaard – Enigma 25 Neville Hall
Indian women and indentureship in Trindad and Tobago 1845-1917: Freedom denied 41 Rhoda Reddock
They never looked back; the role of the Hakka women in Jamacia 69 M.Alexandra Lee
Kalinago (Carib) Resistance to European colonization of the Caribbean 77 Hilary McD. Beckles
Juan De Bolas and his Pelinco 95 David Buisseret and S.A.G. Taylor
Maronnage in slave plantation societies: a case study of Dominica, 1785-1815 103 Bernard A. Marshall
Post – emancipation protest in the Caribbean: the “Belmanna Riots: in Tobago, 1876 111 Bridget Bereton
The 1990 violent disturbance in Trinidad & Tobago: some perceptions 129 John laGuerre
Volume 55, No. 1 March 2009
Early groundings for a Circum-Caribbean integrationist thought 1 Ileana Sanz
“El pais que no se parece a otro”: negotiating literary representations of Yucatan In narrative texts written from within and without the region. 15 Margaret Shrimpton
Writing bridges of sound: praise song for the widow and Louisiana 33 Velma Pollard
“Visions of hell: the representation of the continental Caribbean in Alejo 43 Carpentier’s El siglo de las luces and Maryse Conde’s La vie scelerate.” Odile Ferly
La colonie du nouveau monde: Conde’s Pessimistic views of a Caribbean 61 Utopian community Marie-Jose Nzengou-Tayo
Harlem New York – Haarlem Paris: America-Martinique: Daniel Picouly’s 75 Caribbean Bridge over the Atlanic Francoise Cevaer
Volume 55 No.1 June 2009 Introduction 2 Sabrina R. Rampersaud, James C. Robertson
Small islands, large settlements: archaeology at Les iles de la petite terre, Guadeloupe, F.W.I. 5 Maaike Lesparre-De Waal
Targeting the Jamaican ostionoid: The Blue Marlin archaeological project 23 Sabrina R. Rampersaud
Jamaican Taino ‘Shellsmithing’ techniques explored: a study in method 43 Dianne T. Golding-Frankson
Archaeological investigation of Suriname Maroon ancestral communities 65 Cheryl White
Linstead market before Linstead? Eighteenth-century Yabbas and the internal market system of Jamaica Mark W. Hauser 89
Re-imagining public space: Jamaica’s main square 1534-2000 113 James C. Robertson
Through women’s eyes: architectural sketches of the West Indies 131 Aleric Josephs
The intrinsic value of cultural heritage and its relationship to sustainable tourism development: the contrasting experiences of Jamaica and Japan 151 Janice Francis-Lindsay
Volume 55, No. 3 SEPTEMBER 2009
Tidal poetics in Dionne Brand’s At the full and change of the moon 1 Lucy Evans
‘C-Men’ and tricksters in Smile Orange 21 Rachel Moseley-Wood
African matrix cultural production: towards a model of sustainable Human development in Santiago de Cuba 43 Alicia Sanabria
Incorporation of biomedical knowledge in sickle cell disease (SCD) Representations of a Guadeloupe School Population (FWI): Marie – Galante profile 53 Jerome, Pruneau, Sylvain Ferez, Frederic Maillard, Jacques Dumont, Sebastien Ruffie, Olivier Hue
Studying the natural sciences in seventeenth-century Jamaica 71 David DeBuissieret
Volume 55, No. 4 DECEMBER 2009
Guest Editorial: Forever indebted to women 1 Marva Phillips
Forever indebted to women: Annstory 9 Judith Soares
Forever indebted to women: As they carry the burden of globalization 15 Lynn Bolles
Forever indebted to women: In spite of the difference 25 June Castello
Forever indebted to women: The power behind the throne 39 Desiree Bernard
The role of women in building social capital in the region. 49 Lennox Bernard
Forever indebted to women: The Caribbean Woan and the labour movement 59 Rex Nettleford
Forever indebted to women: serving in the private domain Influencing the public domain 67 Marva Phillips
Volume 56, No. 4 DECEMBER 2010
Distant drums: The Unsung contribution of African-Jamaican percussion to popular music at home and aboard 1
KENNETH BILBY
Oh Rudie: Jamaican popular music and the narrative of Urban badness in the making of postcolonial society 22
CLINTON HUTTON
Naturally: The crucial contributions of Sonia Pottinger 65
KLIVE WALKER
Don Drummond and the philosophy of music 86
EARL McKENZIE
The Jones High Fidelity audio power amplifier of 1947 97
HEDLEY JONES
Merritone: Music from Morant Bay to the world 108
NEVILLE YING Poems 115
‘’Studio” “She tells herself” “Exhibition” MERVYN MORRIS BOOK REVIEW
Claudette Williams, The devil in the details: Cuban Antislavery Narrative in the postmodern age 116
NICOLE ROBERTS
Volume 57 No.1 March 2011
Portrait of a Vincy artist: Caroline “booops" Sardine 1
JANE BRYCE
Creolisation and the Americas 11
EDOUARD GLISSANT
Philosophy: a view from the canepiece 21
EARL McKENZIE
The Jamaica youth survey: assessing core competencies and risk for aggression among Jamaican youth 35
JULIE MEEKS GARDNER, KIRK R. WILLIAMS, NANCY G. GUERRA, IAN WALKER
“A far cry” turns fifty-five 54
Keith GOFFE
STORY
My brother’s keeper 61
VICTOR CHANG
BOOK REVIEWS
Paul B. Miller, Elusive Origins: the enlightenment in the modern Caribbean historical imagination 73
BRIDGET BRERETON
Beverley Bryan, Between two grammars: research and practice for language learning and teaching in a Creole-speaking environment 78
PAULETTE RAMSAY
Edward Seaga, The Grenada intervention : the inside story 83
STEPHEN VASCIANNIE
Volume 57 No.2 June 2011
Hegemony in post-independence Jamaica 1
D. A. DUNKLEY
Equality in education? A study of Jamaican schools under Michael Manley, 1972-80 24
KHITANYA PETGRAVE
Michael Manley: some visions that still remain relevant 51
CARLTON E. DAVIS
Colombia’s drug trafficking subculture: its literary representation in La Virgen de los sicarios and Rosario Tijeras 75
MAITE VILLORIA
Sovereignty and social justice: ‘the Haitian problem’ in the Dominican Republic 92
EUGENIO MATIBAG AND TERESA DOWNING-MATIBAG COMMENTARY
The life and death of a nation: the mood on immigration in Barbados 118
AARON KAMUGISHA
POEMS
Stone soup 123
Poor execution 125
PAM MORDECAI
BOOK REVIEWS
Colin A. Palmer, Cheddi Jagan and the Politics of power 127
RALPH PREMDAS
Yvonne Shorter Brown, Dead woman pickney: a memoir of childhood in Jamaica 131
JUDITH SOARES
Marifeli Perez-Stable, The United States and Cuba : intimate enemies 134
LEROY A. BINNS
Anne Walmsley and Stanley Greaves, Art in the Caribbean: an introduction 140
PETRINE ARCHER
Marcia A. Forbes, music, media and adolescent sexuality in Jamaica 144
BETH-SARAH WRIGHT
Volume 57 No.2 December 2011
The trade union education institute and Rex Nettleford’s philosophical orientation 1
GEORGE E. EATON
Rex Nettleford: the canepiece, lobour, education and the Caribbean intellectual 20
ANTHONY BOGUES
“Mirror Mirror on the wall / Who is the fairest of them all?”
Rex Nettleford and the Knotty issue of identify 33
RUPERT LEWIS
Nettleford and Rastafari’s inner landscape 49
JAHLANI NIAAH
Tribute to a sage: the life and work of professor the honorable Ralston Milton “Rex” Nettleford 1933 – 2010 64
MARVA A. PHILLIPS
“Guerrillas in the trenches”: Nettleford on Extra-mural studies at the UWI 79
JUDITH SOARES
Forever indebted to Rex: women crafting a “New story of human experience” 89
CECELIA BATSON-ROLLOCK, JUDITH SOARES, MARVA A. PHILLIPS
The sage shapes the nexus: convergence and collaboration 99
JUDITH WEDDERBURN
Rex Nettleford: gatekeeper of anthropological research in Jamaica 108
A. LYNN BOLLES “You ‘re educable”: personal reflections on Rex 112
BARBARA GLOUDON
POEM
“Nettleford nonpareil” 117
HOWARD A. FERGUS
Volume 58 No.1 March 2012
‘Throw word’: Graffiti, space and power in Kingston, Jamaica 1
RIVKE JAFFE, KEVON RHINEY AND CAVELL FRANCIS
Acts of possession and symbolic decolonization in Trinidad and Tobago 21
DAVID V. TROTMAN
The Monad: the hegemony of personality – Eric Williams and the Post-Independence imagination of Trinidad, 1956 – 1981 44
RAYMOND RAMCHARITAR
History at the personal level: Tesserae in the in the Mosaic of Caribbean social history 65
MARGARET D. ROUSE-JONES
Cuba from due south: an Anglo – Caribbean perspectives 87
BRIAN MEEKS
BOOK REVIEW ESSAY
Understanding: Pan-Africanism 99
SIMON A. CLARKE
POEMS
Blue Mahoe (In memory of John Maxwell). Where the cord lies. Now back home. Liberation. Scene from the stage 112
FRAGAND LEDGISTER
Volume 58 Nos. 2&3 June - September 2012
PART 1: COMMUNICATION IN ACTION 1
Introduction 1
JUNE P. BARBOUR AND CORINNE BARNES (GUEST EDITORS)
Modernity, empowerment and grassroots communication in the English-speaking Caribbean 3
PATRICK WADE PRENDERGAST
Citizen journalism vs. traditional journalism: a case for collaboration 6 CORINNE BARNES Caribbean media convergence: towards a new Caribbean journalist 28
CANUTE W. JAMES
“Pinch, leave an inch and roll:” applying the communication – for – behavioural – impact (COMBI) approach to the promotion of proper male condom use in Jamaica 43
LIVINGSTON A. WHITE, LOVETTE BYFIELD, SANNIA SUTHERLAND, AND ROSHANE S. REID
The role of the academic library in facilitating scholarly communication 67
FRANCES SALMON AND CHERRY-ANN SMART
PART 2: THE IMAGE IN COMMUNICATION 79
Travelling humour reimagined: the comedic unhinging of the European gaze in Caribbean postcards 79
“Ah my brownin’ dat!”: A visual discourse analysis of the performance of Vybz Kartel’s masculinity in the cartoons of the Jamaica observer 116
PATRICK HELBER
COMMENTARY: Citizenship and social exclusion 129 DEBORAH A. THOMAS
STORY: Door 133
MARTIN MORDECAI
BOOK REVIEW ESSAY
To ease her exile: reading Una Marson’s poetry intently and welcoming Alison Donnell’s Una Marson: selected poems 144
STEPHANIE McKENZIE Volume 58 No.4 December 2012
Leonard P. Howell’s leadership of the Rastafari movement and his “missing years” 1
DAIVE DUNKLEY
Stepping out: Peter Tosh and the dynamics of Afro-Caribbean existence 25
TAITU HERON AND YANIQUE HUME
Journeys in poetry, painting and philosophy 50
EARL McKENZIE
Defining traditional knowledge: a perspective from the Caribbean 62
SHARON B. LE GALL
Challenges to solidarity across multiple borders: Haiti’s free trade zone 87
MARK SCHULLER
COMMENTARY
History and social death 111
ERNA BRODBER
BOOK REVIEW ESSAY Is there a place for the scientist in the Caribbean intellectual landscape? 116
E. NIGEL HARRIS
POEMS
NANCY ANNE MILLER 124
BOOK REVIEWS
Edwidge Danticat, create dangerously: the immigrant artist at work 127
MARIE-JOSE NZENGOU-TAYO
Jeff Karem, The purloined islands: Caribbean – US crosscurrents in Literature and culture, 1880 – 1959 134
BRIDGET BRERETON
Rudy Insanally, multilateral diplomacy for small states: “The art of letting others have your way” 138
DENIS BENN
Reniel Rodriquez Ramos, rethinking Puerto Rican precolonial history 141
STEPHAN LENIK
Volume 59 No.2 June 2013
ARTIST’S VOICE
Notes on Ras Witter
JAKE HOMIAK
Introduction
JAHLANI NIAAH AND ERIN MACLEOD
FEATURE ARTICLES
Blackheart man
MOQAPI
Brother man’s asceticism
FAITH SMITH
Left waiting in vain for your love: situating the (In) visibility of black women of Rastafari as lovers, partners and revolutionaries in Brooklyn Babylon and one love
ASHEDA DWYER
Critical literacy: a Rastafari perspective
ADWOA NTOZAKE ONUORA
Towards a pre-history of Rastafari
WIGMOORE FRANCIS
The Ethiopian world federation: a Pan – African organization among the Rastafari in Jamaica
GIULIA BONACCI
From peace and love to ‘ Fyah Bun’: did Rastafari lose its wat?
LEAHCIM SEMAJ
Honouring in existential priority responsibilities: a call to create and operate a Ras Tafari collective machinery
RAS IRATION 1
“Mek Wi Talk Bout de Bottom a de Sea”: Mutabaruka’s submarine poetics
CAROLYN COOPER
Rex Nettleford’s reflections on the Rastafari report and movement and his impact on the trajectory of Rastafari scholarship
MICHAEL BARNETT
BOOK REVIEW
Anjahli Parnell, comp., ed. And rev., The biography of empress Menen Afsaw: The mother of the Ethiopian nation
IMANI M. TAFARI-AMA
Volume 59 Nos. 3 & 4 September - December 2013
ARTIST’S VOICE Intersections HUBERT NEAL, JR.
PART 1: Building our nation’s sustainability: UWI open campus Belize 2010 country conference
Introduction SHARMAYNE SAUNDERS (GUEST EDITOR)
Social and economic equity and stability: achievable for most if not for all
JANE E. BENNETT
Human capital theory: implications for educational development in Belize and the Caribbean
LEROY ALMENDAREZ
A model for designing and facilitating virtual learning in Belize: addressing faculty needs and contextualization
KATHLEEN P. KING
Training Caribbean literacy professionals online: challenges and possibilities
MICHELLE McANUFF – GUMBS
Harmonising nursing education: theory and practice MARJORIE E. PARKS, LAURA TUCKER LONGSWORTH AND ISIDORA ESPADAS
Integrating education on climate change in the UWI open campus: promoting sustainable development in CARICOM
EMILY DICK – FORDE
Building an effective oil spill response mechanism for Belize: obligations, threats and challenges
LLOYD JONES
PART 2: Building Belize: the conversation continues
Why are Garifuna students underachieving in our primary and secondary schools?
JOSEPH O. PALACIO
COMMENTARY
Media and the Belizean society
JANELLE CHANONA
ARCHIVE GEMS
The sea of Belize
The Maya heritage of Belize
STORY
The kite IVORY KELLY POEMS KALILAH ENRIQUEZ
BOOK REVIEWS
Mavis C. Campbell, Becoming Belize: a history of an outpost of empire searching for identity, 1528 - 1823
REVIEWED BY ANGEL CAL
Micheal J.Monahan, the creolizing subject: race, reason and the politics of purity
REVIEWED BY MATTHEW C. REILLY
Shona N. Jackson, creole indigeneity: between myth and nation in the Caribbean
REVIEWED BY BRIDGET BRERETON
Nicole N. Aljoe, Creole testimonies: slave narratives from the British West Indies, 1709-1838
REVIEWED BY D.A. DUNKLEY
Scott M. Fitzpatrick and Ann H. Ross, eds., island shores, distant pasts: archaeological and biological approaches to the Pre-Columbian Settlement of the Caribbean.
REVIEWED BY ZACHARY J. BEIER John Gimlette, wild coast: travels on South America’s untamed edge
REVIEWED BY LOMARSH ROOPNARINE
Emily Greenwood, Afro-Greeks
REVIEWED BY ST HOPE EARL McKENZIE
Paulette A. Ramsay, Vivienne A. Harding, Janice A. Cools, and Ingrid McLaren, blooming with the Pouis: critical thinking, reading and writing across the curriculum – a rhetorical reader for Caribbean tertiary students.