“This poem cannot find words / this poem repeats itself,” begins the Trinidadborn Canadian writer Dionne Brand in her poem titled “October 19th, 1983.” This self-reflexive opening is underwritten by shock, confusion, and even trauma. The poem goes on to list a series of names in a repetitive refrain that suggests disbelief: “Maurice is dead / Jackie is dead.” Laurie Lambert argues in Comrade Sister: Caribbean Feminist Revisions of the Grenada Revolution that Brand’s stuttering attempt to come to terms, through poetry, with the violence of what transpired in the Caribbean island country of Grenada on October 19, 1983, speaks to how writing functions as a “certain structure of healing” in the aftermath of revolutionary struggle and defeat (Lambert 139). In 1979, the Marxist-Leninist New Jewel movement (NJM) under Maurice Bishop overthrew the government of Grenada. While the anti-imperialist, social democratic vision of the NJM transformed Grenadian infrastructure, agriculture, and education for the better, “a thread of violence” too often ran through the everyday lives of those in whose name revolutionary change was being sought (Lambert 10). This culminated in the fratricidal outcome of which Brand writes—or rather, “cannot find words” to write—wherein a combination of internal party conflicts and external destabilization turned the revolution murderous of its own. The US military invasion that followed, which included aerial bombing and the deliberate erasure of evidence, was retraumatizing and further complicated the revolution’s legacy. Comrade Sister turns to women’s perspectives in order to grapple with the conflicting realities of this period of Grenadian history, itself part of a longue durée of radical political struggle in the Caribbean that dates back to the genocide of its indigenous peoples and plantation slavery. Lambert’s study rests on two productive and urgent (re-)conceptualizations. One is recognizing the “queer temporality” of revolution, wherein “ideas of revolution as a chronological project of achievement” must be disrupted in order to understand, in full, how the Grenadian Revolution is imagined and remembered (127). The second is an expansion of what constitutes everyday resistance, political struggle, and revolutionary history-making—even and especially where those engaged in these everyday struggles feel ambivalent toward the revolutionary state, even if they
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{"title":"PLI volume 9 issue 3 Cover and Front matter","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/pli.2022.22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/pli.2022.22","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42913,"journal":{"name":"Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43220985","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract Auritro Majumder is Associate Professor of English at University of Houston. He is the author of Insurgent Imaginations: World Literature and the Periphery (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and currently chair of the South Asian and Diasporic Languages, Literatures and Cultures forum of the Modern Language Association.
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{"title":"Christopher E. W. Ouma, Childhood in Contemporary Diasporic African Literature: Memories and Futures Past Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, 202 pp.","authors":"Bernie Lombardi","doi":"10.1017/pli.2021.23","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/pli.2021.23","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42913,"journal":{"name":"Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46469501","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
September 28, 2014. At Delhi’s Rajiv Chowk metro station, a frenzied mob of Indians surround three African students. They begin to abuse them; they punch and hit them with belts and sticks. This recorded—and widely circulated— incident shows the African students seeking refuge in a police booth, but a policeman on duty (who appears to be from the Delhi Police force) does nothing to assist them. In a curious display of jingoistic nationalism, some of those gathered can also be heard (and seen) egging the mob on by chanting “Bharat Mata ki Jai” (“Victory toMother India”).1 This is just one (more) instance of racist violence faced by Africans living in India and points to the difficult relationship Indians—and India at large—have with racialized “others.”2 And although this may seem a banal instance of “brown over black”3 racism, I draw on this incident for a different reason. This episode signals, in concrete terms, the demise of the abstract notion of “third world” or “Afro-Asian” solidarity that was premised upon and activated through what Auritro Majumder calls “peripheral internationalism,” itself an expression of the insurgent imagination called decolonization. Lest we forget, it was less than a century ago that we lived in “a world divided into compartments,” where metropolitan states, through a complex of political
2014年9月28日。在德里的拉吉夫·乔克地铁站，一群疯狂的印度人围住了三名非洲学生。他们开始虐待他们;他们用皮带和棍子打他们。这段被记录下来并广为流传的事件显示，非洲学生在一个警察局寻求庇护，但一名值班警察(似乎来自德里警察局)没有帮助他们。在一个奇怪的沙文主义民族主义的展示中，一些聚集在一起的人还可以听到(和看到)通过高喊“Bharat Mata ki Jai”(“胜利给另一个印度”)来煽动暴徒这只是生活在印度的非洲人面临的种族主义暴力的一个(又一个)例子，并指出了印度人——以及整个印度——与种族化的“其他人”之间的艰难关系。尽管这似乎是一个老生常谈的“棕色人种高于黑人”的种族主义例子，但我引用这个事件是出于另一个原因。从具体的角度来看，这一事件标志着“第三世界”或“亚非”团结的抽象概念的消亡，这种抽象概念是以奥里特罗·马祖德所说的“外围国际主义”为前提和激活的，它本身就是一种被称为非殖民化的反叛想象力的表达。别忘了，就在不到一个世纪前，我们生活在一个“被分割成小隔间的世界”，在那里，大都市国家，通过复杂的政治
{"title":"Requiem for a Dream","authors":"Sandeep Banerjee","doi":"10.1017/pli.2022.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/pli.2022.11","url":null,"abstract":"September 28, 2014. At Delhi’s Rajiv Chowk metro station, a frenzied mob of Indians surround three African students. They begin to abuse them; they punch and hit them with belts and sticks. This recorded—and widely circulated— incident shows the African students seeking refuge in a police booth, but a policeman on duty (who appears to be from the Delhi Police force) does nothing to assist them. In a curious display of jingoistic nationalism, some of those gathered can also be heard (and seen) egging the mob on by chanting “Bharat Mata ki Jai” (“Victory toMother India”).1 This is just one (more) instance of racist violence faced by Africans living in India and points to the difficult relationship Indians—and India at large—have with racialized “others.”2 And although this may seem a banal instance of “brown over black”3 racism, I draw on this incident for a different reason. This episode signals, in concrete terms, the demise of the abstract notion of “third world” or “Afro-Asian” solidarity that was premised upon and activated through what Auritro Majumder calls “peripheral internationalism,” itself an expression of the insurgent imagination called decolonization. Lest we forget, it was less than a century ago that we lived in “a world divided into compartments,” where metropolitan states, through a complex of political","PeriodicalId":42913,"journal":{"name":"Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44470454","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract This article interrogates the South-South internationalism of two renowned US Latinx poets: Miguel Algarín’s abjection in Morocco in his poem “Tangiers” and Sandra María Esteves’s anti-apartheid poetry for the French Art contre/against apartheid project, which included the controversial participation of Jacques Derrida. Although these poems focus on different contexts of African liberation, both react to French coloniality. For Algarín, his Orientalist evocations of underage child prostitution operate under a French hegemony, coming into crisis when a third world alliance fails. In Esteves’s work, her poetic solidarity draws on Frantz Fanon’s experience of French colonization in Algeria but also comes into crisis when Derrida’s foreword for Art contre/against apartheid is challenged as Eurocentric. Although both engagements with African self-determination exhibit residues of a French hegemony undergirding and undercutting what I term is a poetic Latin-African solidarity, their South-South approach enriches postcolonial studies, in which Latin American, and by extension, Latinx identities have been sidelined.
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Abstract This article is an attempt to make sense of the paradox structuring the narrative of extinction in Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men (2006), which juxtaposes a romanticized image of survival and rebirth and the ugliness of senseless death. Departing from a biopolitical framework, the article argues that Cuarón’s story represents extinction as beyond redemption yet as subject to regulation. Given the fact that the narrative is structured around the citizen/refugee nexus, I read the film as a story about the eschatological value of refugees to both cultural conceptualizations of human extinction and a reproduction of statist political identities. The film is thus not only about unequal access to death but also about how the difference between the citizen and the refugee can still be maintained in the face of climatic extinction when the regulation of life is no longer sufficient.
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{"title":"PLI volume 9 issue 3 Cover and Back matter","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/pli.2022.23","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/pli.2022.23","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42913,"journal":{"name":"Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45920894","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract In 1914, an epidemic of bubonic plague ravaged colonial Dakar. The panicked French colonial administration blamed the native population and evicted indigenous Africans from the city center before burning their homes. The Dakarois fought back through a general strike, political maneuvering, and, finally, by taking to the streets. Out of this year of disease, politics, racism, and resistance came the new, segregated neighborhood of Médina, which was created to house the displaced African population of Dakar. Over the twentieth century, as Dakar swelled into a metropolis around it, Médina was a unique space in the Senegalese capital—a hotbed of cultural creativity, a crossroads for waves of migrants, and a potent and enduring contrast with the nearby downtown, known as the Plateau. This article explores the ways in which the plague of 1914 reshaped Dakar and left a lasting impression on a century of Senegalese cultural production.
{"title":"Enduring Epidemic: Aesthetic Aftershocks of the 1914 Plague and the Segregation of Dakar","authors":"Tobias Warner","doi":"10.1017/pli.2022.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/pli.2022.18","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In 1914, an epidemic of bubonic plague ravaged colonial Dakar. The panicked French colonial administration blamed the native population and evicted indigenous Africans from the city center before burning their homes. The Dakarois fought back through a general strike, political maneuvering, and, finally, by taking to the streets. Out of this year of disease, politics, racism, and resistance came the new, segregated neighborhood of Médina, which was created to house the displaced African population of Dakar. Over the twentieth century, as Dakar swelled into a metropolis around it, Médina was a unique space in the Senegalese capital—a hotbed of cultural creativity, a crossroads for waves of migrants, and a potent and enduring contrast with the nearby downtown, known as the Plateau. This article explores the ways in which the plague of 1914 reshaped Dakar and left a lasting impression on a century of Senegalese cultural production.","PeriodicalId":42913,"journal":{"name":"Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48413559","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"J. Daniel Elam, World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth: Anticolonial Aesthetics, Postcolonial Politics. Fordham University Press, 2021, xiv + 192 pp.","authors":"C. Thakur","doi":"10.1017/pli.2021.44","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/pli.2021.44","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42913,"journal":{"name":"Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42795427","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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