Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00086495.2022.2037242
Victoria Carpenter
HURRICANE GILBERT WAS A CATEGORY 5 STORM which struck Jamaica on 12 September 1988 before continuing on to the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico where it made landfall two days later. Gilbert was called the storm of the century as it set records for size, amount of rainfall, atmospheric pressure, track, and total energy.1 Forty-five people were killed in Jamaica and the island suffered widespread infrastructural damage (75 percent of housing stock was damaged),2 and significant loss of crops and livestock.3 It took Jamaica over six months to move everyone out of shelters and into new houses.4 By December 1988, tourist resorts were once again open to the public5 as the island saw the end of the emergency response period, and the beginning of a lengthy process of economic and social recovery. From September 1988 onwards, a number of texts were produced to narrate the story of Gilbert’s landing and the destruction the storm caused on the island. There were two types of texts: those representing the state’s view of the hurricane and its aftermath (statements by officials and government reports), and those representing the public’s view of Gilbert (witnesses’ testimonials, artistic works reflecting public sentiment, and so on). We will examine how Hurricane Gilbert was described in the two types of texts. We will begin with the statements by government officials and newspaper coverage of the effects the hurricane had on the island immediately after the landfall, and within the first three months of the aftermath. The texts used for this purpose come from a compilation of newspaper reports and statements by government officials.6 We will then proceed to the analysis of two songs written shortly after the hurricane: “Wild Gilbert” by Lloyd Lovindeer7 and “Gilbert Attack Us” by Banana Man.8 We aim to determine whether the way these songs depict Gilbert is similar to that presented in the state texts or whether there are significant
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00086495.2022.2037240
Keilah Mills
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00086495.2022.2037244
Sasha R. Drummond-Lewis
THE CARIBBEAN FOOD AND NUTRITIONAL INSTITUTE (CFNI) reports that the problem of childhood obesity is widespread across the Caribbean region. Data indicates that rates of obesity are high among Caribbean adolescent females compared to their male counterparts.1 Global School-based Student Health Survey (GSHS) data revealed high reported rates of overweight female students in several Caribbean countries including The Bahamas (47.1%), Barbados (31.8%), Dominica (25.9%), Guyana (15.9%), Jamaica (28.2%), Saint Kitts and Nevis (32.5%), and Trinidad (34.1%).2 These patterns not only elucidate a trend in the prevalence of childhood obesity in the region, but also potential associated health risks. Self-perceptions of overweight body size may not only contribute to the rising obesity rate, but also influence whether weight reduction methods are sought to address this health concern. Yet, research on childhood obesity in the Caribbean rarely explores the relationship between self-perception and methods used for weight loss among adolescents. Self-perception is an important consideration for adolescent girls, as body image is a problem among this group.3 During adolescence, negative body perceptions occur at a time when youth are forming identity and developing self-image. While accurate measurements of body weight help achieve a healthy body size,4 they alone might not be sufficient for weight loss. In fact, weight perception is one of the motivating factors for weight control behaviours and is a better predictor than actual weight for adolescents to diet or exercise.5 For instance, as studies have shown, if adolescent girls are overweight/obese but do not perceive themselves to be, the likelihood of them engaging in weight-altering methods will be reduced, increasing the risk for comorbidity-
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Pub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/00086495.2021.1996012
A. Bryan
CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE / CHILDHOOD SEXUAL VIOLENCE / childhood sexual assault. The lexicon labelling the sexual trauma placed upon children’s bodies and minds changes, unlike that of the current power struggles behind such trauma. Patriarchal and antiquated views of female bodies and female agency, allowing sexual abuse and the often-resulting victimisation to continue, must be challenged at all levels of society, individually, institutionally, and politically. I begin such a task by focusing on literature – specifically contemporary, newly emerging canonical literature for young adults that writes openly about the occurrence of child sexual abuse and the emotional and psychological damage caused by such abuse. Teenagers and young adults often encounter canonical literature through educational texts. Scholars’ examination of such texts can lead to interpersonal challenges to power systems. The Jamaican-Canadian author Nalo Hopkinson’s novel Midnight Robber (2000)1 prominently positions the conversation about the prevalence of child sexual abuse occurring in society, along with the way in which society often responds, and then provides another model of addressing child sexual abuse to support the transformation of victims into survivors. Midnight Robber, Hopkinson’s second novel, emphasises the Afro-Caribbean protagonist’s body movements through various spaces. Many scholars have discussed how Hopkinson depicts technology, globalisation, modernity, high/ low cyberpunk, and postcolonial cybernetics in her work of speculative fiction.2 A few scholars have combined race and bodies, such as Elizabeth Boyle3 and Erin M. Fehskens,4 or spatial issues of migration, slavery, and dystopian spaces, such as Giselle L. Anatol5 and Myriam Moïse.6 Very few scholars have made child sexual abuse their primary focus, although it occurs towards the middle of the novel, propelling the rest of the narrative. Regarding assault, Shelby Crosby discusses the re-victimisation of the protagonist, Tan-Tan Habib, through the disregard of communities, which mirrors the re-victimisation that occurred during slavery and colonialism.7 However, while Crosby focuses on the disruption
儿童性虐待/儿童性暴力/儿童性侵犯。与当前这种创伤背后的权力斗争不同，给儿童身心带来的性创伤贴上标签的词汇发生了变化。对女性身体和女性机构的父权和陈旧观点，允许性虐待和经常导致的受害继续存在，必须在社会的各个层面，从个人、制度和政治上受到挑战。我从关注文学开始这项任务，特别是面向年轻人的当代新兴规范文学，公开写下儿童性虐待的发生以及这种虐待造成的情感和心理伤害。青少年和年轻人经常通过教育文本接触经典文学。学者们对这类文本的研究可能会给权力体系带来人际挑战。牙买加裔加拿大作家Nalo Hopkinson的小说《午夜强盗》（2000）1突出地阐述了社会中儿童性虐待的普遍性，以及社会通常的反应方式，然后提供了另一种解决儿童性虐待问题的模式，以支持受害者转变为幸存者。霍普金森的第二部小说《午夜强盗》强调了非裔加勒比人主人公在各种空间中的身体运动。许多学者讨论了霍普金森在她的推理小说作品中如何描绘技术、全球化、现代性、高/低赛博朋克和后殖民控制论。2一些学者将种族和身体结合在一起，如伊丽莎白·博伊勒3和埃林·M·费斯肯斯4，或移民、奴隶制和反乌托邦空间的空间问题，如吉赛尔·L。Anatol5和Myriam Moïse。6很少有学者将儿童性虐待作为他们的主要关注点，尽管它发生在小说的中间，推动了叙事的其余部分。关于袭击，Shelby Crosby讨论了主人公Tan Tan Habib通过无视社区而再次受害的问题，这反映了奴隶制和殖民主义时期发生的再次受害。7然而，Crosby关注的是破坏
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Pub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/00086495.2021.1996051
Devin Leigh
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Pub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/00086495.2021.1996050
Scott Timcke
{"title":"The Fetish Revisited: Marx, Freud and the Gods Black People Make","authors":"Scott Timcke","doi":"10.1080/00086495.2021.1996050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00086495.2021.1996050","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35039,"journal":{"name":"Caribbean Quarterly","volume":"67 1","pages":"507 - 509"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48385307","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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