The Caribbean.
Name -- Date -- Below is a map showing many of the islands that make up the Caribbean. Many of the larger islands are labeled. Study the map. Then read the list of statements. Circle the correct answer to each statement. 1. The...

Ouvrages recus.
Archives de sciences sociales des religions, vol. 48, no. 128, octobre-décembre 2004, 161 p. AUGÉ MARC, Oblivion. Traduction de Les formes de l'oubli, 1998. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 2004, 92 p. BEN DRIDI Ibtissem, Le tasfih en Tunisie. Un rituel de protection de la...

Jerome S. Handler. A Guide to Source Materials for the Study of Barbados History, 1627-1834.
Published in association with the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and the John Carter Brown Library. New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2002. xvi, 205 pp.; $29.95 US (hardcover). ISBN 1 58456 064 9. For a small island Barbados has attracted a great deal of scholarly attention....

Richard Price, Le bagnard et le colonel.
Traduit de l'anglais par Sally Price. Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, coll. Ethnologies, 2000, 236 p., bibliogr., illustr. La mémoire est douée pour l'oubli. Il en va de même pour la mémoire collective, et ce tout particulièrement en contexte postcolonial. Le bel ouvrage de Richard Price se...

John Santos and the Machete Ensemble Brazos Abiertos.
(Machete Records) As John Santos and the Machete Ensemble approach their 19th birthday, Brazos Abiertos (Open Arms) shows the creative cohesion this gifted jazz Latin ensemble has created. Mature and full-bodied, the group evokes en impression of the Duke Ellington orchestra if Juan Tizol had run it....

Slave sugar.
Between the 16th and 19th centuries upwards of 10 million Africans were enslaved by Europeans and transported to the 'New World'--arguably the most prolonged episode of savagery in human history. Many slaves did not survive the 'middle passage' across the Atlantic. Those who did routinely died within a decade,...

En guise de preface.
On me pose souvent la question: "Pour vous, n'etait-ce pas penible d'enseigner?" S'il est certain que ce qui detourne un ecrivain de l'essentiel de sa vie est intolerable, que toute forme d'activite, hormis celle d'ecrire, est percue comme un detestable empietement sur l'espace de la creativite, il n'en demeure...

The translation of Louisiana into the South.
IN 1988 ALFRED HUNT WROTE IN Haiti's Influence on Antebellum America: Slumbering Volcano in the Caribbean: "To view the South as an. aberrant version of traditional American society (as is the opinion in the Northeast) is to misunderstand its history and to diminish the role that the Caribbean played...

Vital signs in the body politic: eroticism and exile in Maryse Conde and Dany Laferriere.
Il n'y a pas de paroles sur l'Amour par ici.... Notre pre-litterature est de cris, de haines, de revendications, de propheties aux Aubes inevitables, d'analyseurs, de donneurs de lecons, gardiens de solutions solutionnantes aux miseres d'ici-la, et les negres de ceci, les negres de cela, et l'Universel, ah l'Universel...

Martinique: in Gauguin's footsteps.
In the Gauguin literature Martinique does not figure as evidently as does Tahiti, the Marquesas Islands or Brittany and yet, in a certain sense, Martinique was perhaps the most influential of all his experiences. It has been my privilege and opportunity to follow in Gauguin's footsteps in that Caribbean island...