Pub Date : 2022-03-01DOI: 10.1215/07990537-9724051
Kathleen Donegan
Abstract:This essay concentrates on the relation between song and history in the lives of the enslaved and the afterlives of slavery, particularly by tracing the history of the song "Take Him to the Gulley," which became known as "the famous slave song of Jamaica." Thinking alongside Katherine McKittrick's and Sylvia Wynter's work on plantation geographies, the author argues that the gulley, a site of mass burial in the center of the song, was also a site of Black cultural expression and futurity—a place where death and life, torture and escape, enslavement and freedom collided and shaped each other. The essay traces the song as both a mode and a performance of history, in which, through the workings of reclamation, remembrance, and redress, an enslaver's perverse punishment became a people's history.
摘要:本文主要探讨了歌曲与历史在奴隶生活和奴隶后世的关系，特别是通过追溯歌曲“Take Him to the Gulley”的历史，这首歌被称为“牙买加著名的奴隶之歌”。结合凯瑟琳·麦基特里克和西尔维娅·温特对种植园地理的研究，作者认为，在歌曲的中心，水沟是一个集体埋葬的地方，也是黑人文化表达和未来的地方——一个死亡与生命、折磨与逃跑、奴役与自由相互碰撞、相互塑造的地方。这篇文章追溯了这首歌作为一种模式和历史的表现，在这首歌中，通过开垦、记忆和纠正的工作，一个奴隶的不正当惩罚成为了一个民族的历史。
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Pub Date : 2021-11-01DOI: 10.1215/07990537-9583544
R. Jaffe
Abstract:This review essay enters into conversation with Greg Beckett’s 2019 There Is No More Haiti: Between Life and Death in Port-au-Prince to think through the geographies and temporalities of how crisis is known. Focusing on the urban Caribbean, it interrogates broadly circulating understandings of the city-as-crisis, asking how the “where” of crisis connects to a geographical imagination that sites Caribbean cultural authenticity in the countryside. Next, it reflects on the temporalities of crisis, in relation to Beckett’s conceptualization of crisis as a chronic condition, as the routinized anticipation of rupture. Despite a rich tradition of Caribbean scholarship on temporalities, there has been limited engagement with the region’s urban time-spaces. The author suggests that a more thorough consideration of Caribbean urban futures in particular might allow us to read an anticipatory attunement to insecurity and instability as an urban mode of temporal experience, in which future making in and through uncertainty can be not a source of despair but of hope.
摘要:本文与格雷格·贝克特(Greg Beckett)的《2019年不再有海地:太子港的生与死之间》(2019 There Is More Haiti: Between生与死之间)进行了对话，以思考危机是如何被认识的地理和时间。聚焦于加勒比海城市，它质疑了关于城市作为危机的广泛流传的理解，询问危机的“在哪里”如何与地理想象联系起来，将加勒比海文化的真实性定位在农村。接下来，它反映了危机的暂时性，与贝克特将危机概念化为一种慢性疾病，作为对破裂的常规预期有关。尽管加勒比地区在时间性方面有着丰富的学术传统，但对该地区城市时间空间的研究却十分有限。作者建议，特别是对加勒比城市未来的更彻底的考虑可能使我们能够将对不安全和不稳定的预期调和作为一种城市模式的时间经验，在这种模式中，在不确定性中并通过不确定性来制定未来可能不是绝望的来源，而是希望的来源。
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Pub Date : 2021-11-01DOI: 10.1215/07990537-9583390
Ines P. Rivera Prosdocimi
Abstract:This essay extends and contributes to existing scholarship by uncovering instances of cooperation and collaboration that suggest alternative views of Hispaniola and complicate contemporary political and social realities in the Dominican Republic. It focuses on Manuel Rueda’s 1998 Las metamorfosis de Makandal, in which François Makandal is imagined as a protean god. The author argues that Rueda’s Makandal is best understood as the embodiment of the vanguard poetic movement, Pluralismo. The Maroon becomes a central figure in the island’s story, as well as a figure of aesthetic possibilities and boundless exploration, like a pluralema. Rueda imagines a cosmic Makandal who is unhindered by racial or gender constructs, by space or time. Ultimately, he is a figure whose metamorphosis rewrites Hispaniola’s story and challenges rigid binaries that limit the way we view the Dominican Republic as a nation, Dominican national identity, Dominican-Haitian relations, and—more broadly—the island of Hispaniola.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-01DOI: 10.1215/07990537-9583587
G. Beckett
Abstract:In this essay, anthropologist Greg Beckett responds to Rivke Jaffe’s, Nadège T. Clitandre’s, and Jhon Picard Byron’s critical engagements with his 2019 ethnography, There Is No More Haiti: Between Life and Death in Port-au-Prince. Beckett discusses issues of representation and form, how gender and age shape people’s experience of crisis, the discourse of Haitian exceptionalism, and the need to rethink crisis in Haiti from the standpoint of the conceptual categories and lived experiences of those who most directly feel the brunt of the destructive forces of predatory capitalism, political instability, and foreign intervention.
摘要:在本文中，人类学家格雷格·贝克特(Greg Beckett)对里夫克·贾菲(Rivke Jaffe)、纳德里奇·t·克里特安德烈(nadrie T. cliitandre)和约翰·皮卡德·拜伦(john Picard Byron)在2019年出版的民族志《不再有海地:太子港的生与死之间》做出了回应。贝克特讨论了代表性和形式的问题，性别和年龄如何塑造人们对危机的体验，海地例外论的话语，以及从概念范畴的角度重新思考海地危机的必要性，以及那些最直接感受到掠夺性资本主义、政治不稳定和外国干预的破坏性力量的冲击的人的生活经验。
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Pub Date : 2021-11-01DOI: 10.1215/07990537-9583404
Éric Morales-Franceschini
Abstract:Whether emplotted as epic or as tragedy, the tales told about a nation’s revolutionary past do not tend to elicit laughter as much as awe and solemnity. This is the case with Cuba’s national epic, the story of its nineteenth-century wars for independence (1868–98)—the story of Cuba Libre. This essay analyzes how the animated cartoon shorts and film series Elpidio Valdés (1974–2003) comically inflects the story of Cuba Libre with ridiculing laughter and choteo (folk humor). The series puts forth both a hero more akin to a populist trickster than a Spartan and a revolutionary war more akin to carnivalesque drama than to the Homeric epic. In so doing, it subtly critiques the didactic and panegyric rhetoric that has shrouded the national (as well as the socialist) epic and, in its stead, offers a jocular and fallible revolutionary subject in a more participatory and less austere epic.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-01DOI: 10.1215/07990537-9583432
E. Brathwaite
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Pub Date : 2021-11-01DOI: 10.1215/07990537-9583446
Kelly Baker Josephs
Abstract:This essay is part of a special section on Edward Kamau Brathwaite’s 1975 essay “Caribbean Man in Space and Time” (reprinted in the issue), briefly tracing the dis- semination history of Brathwaite’s essay, then focusing on two main lines of argument in it to explore their significance for current practices and possibilities in Caribbean studies. Using three contemporary digital projects as examples, the author elaborates on the potential affordances and limitations of digital platforms and technologies as (in Brathwaite’s terms) “agents of change,” while arguing the case for “how the digital allows us to think the Caribbean differently.”
摘要:本文是Edward Kamau Brathwaite 1975年发表的论文《时空中的加勒比人》(Caribbean Man in Space and Time)的专题部分，简要追溯了Brathwaite论文的传播历史，然后重点关注其中的两条主要论点，探讨它们对当前加勒比研究实践和可能性的意义。作者以三个当代数字项目为例，详细阐述了数字平台和技术作为(用Brathwaite的话说)“变革推动者”的潜在优势和局限性，同时论证了“数字如何让我们以不同的方式思考加勒比海”。
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Pub Date : 2021-11-01DOI: 10.1215/07990537-9583376
Jennifer Baez
Abstract:When Christopher Columbus’s human remains were discovered in a lead box inside Santo Domingo’s Basilica Cathedral of Santa María la Menor in 1877, Santo Domingo City Hall proposed commissioning a statue and a mausoleum. The Columbus statue featured an india, or a Native woman, presumably Taino chieftain Anacaona, on the pedestal base, writing words of praise to the admiral, who stood atop the monument. This essay explores how Anacaona’s racialized and gendered body symbolically validated a public nationalist discourse, while arguably erasing the roles that Blacks and Indigenous peoples had played in shaping island life since 1492.
摘要:1877年，当圣多明各(Santo Domingo)的圣塔María la Menor大教堂(Basilica Cathedral of Santa)内的铅箱中发现克里斯托弗·哥伦布(Christopher Columbus)的遗骸时，圣多明各市政厅提议建造一座雕像和一座陵墓。哥伦布雕像的基座上有一个印度人，或者一个土著妇女，可能是泰诺酋长阿纳考纳，她给站在纪念碑顶上的海军上将写了赞美的话。这篇文章探讨了阿纳考纳的种族化和性别化的身体是如何象征性地证实了一种公共民族主义话语，同时可以说是抹杀了黑人和土著人民自1492年以来在塑造岛上生活中所扮演的角色。
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