"Any attempt to trace the many resonances that historically have been attached to the creole figure in Caribbean literature and culture will be inflected by the long and pervading presence of colonialism in the region and its attendant corollary of hierarchical social separation and difference based on perceptions of race. Indeed, the ambivalent desire and subjective misrecognition that lay at the heart of historical writing about colonialism and racism have tended to frame the issues of monstrosity and exclusion that produced the creole as part and parcel of wider colonial discourses. Thus, the shifting and increasingly unstable inscription of the creole figure echoes, in a certain sense, certain critical ambiguities of politics and temporality that color the colonial encounter and its aftermath. Specifically, in the contemporary English- and French-speaking Caribbean, the multiplicity, displacement, and creative instability that undergird creole-driven theories of postcolonial performance have supplanted this category's suspect beginnings as colonialism's model for the fearfully unnameable and unplaceable hybrid monstrosity, and now increasingly shape the substance of much of the artistic and creative work emerging from the region." --The Author
"Recent examination of the content of Third World tourism marketing still lacks discussion concerning context. In this paper, an analysis of brochures representing different Third World countries reveals distinct patterns of marketing images occurring across these destinations. Postcolonial theory is used as a critical, contextual perspective to interpret these patterns. Three Third World tourism ‘Un’ myths are discussed: the myth of the unchanged, the myth of the unrestrained, and the myth of the uncivilized. It is shown that the representations surrounding these myths replicate colonial forms of discourse, emphasizing certain binaries between the First and Third Worlds and maintaining broader geopolitical power structures." (authors)
"Focuses on AIDS/HIV cases in the Caribbean Area as of January 2003. Percentage of people affected with the disease; Information on the University of the West Indies HIV/AIDS Response Program (UWI HARP); Comments from professor Farley Cleghorn on the response of the government to the disease; Impact of the UWI HARP on the students." (author)
Discussed is the 'brilliant' cricket career of Clyde Walcott of Trinidad and Tobago. Walcott, who got started in cricket in 1941 when he was not quite sixteen years old, has served as a cricket player, coach, and multi-level administrator
Jamaican-born troubadour Shaggy is described as being 'a laser beam of conviction about where he is, where he should go and how he intends to get there.'
"This paper examines CARICOM's convergence strategy for building sub-regional linkages in the current process of hemispheric integration. It looks at the concentric circles approach first advocated by the West Indian Commission, and assesses how it was implemented and the issues and problems it generated." (author)
Offers a preliminary analysis of conclusions of the colonial conference of British representatives of the Lesser Antilles and Guyana centering childhood and health. The inclusion in the program of questions as the job of the children, the centers of game, and medical examination, reflects the important link established between education and its impact on health and progress in the region. Supports that the health policies in English-speaking Caribbean were influenced as well by the concerns of British Empire as local communities." (author)
This article focuses on the process of "encolouring" social reality in the Caribbean. This is done by investigating how connections between status and colour were created in the Danish West Indies by using certain strategies and techniques of power. Essential to the regulatory efforts of planters and officials were three variables: time, space and body. By the manipulation of these phenomena colonial masters managed to make skin colour represent something other than itself. It came to be associated with a web of ideas concerning the constitution of society and its subjects--their status, condition and opportunities in life. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT];
Tillis explores the socio-political poetics of Blas Jiménez in the context of the negritude aesthetic in the Spanish-speaking world. The selected poems of Jiménez attest to the continuation of negritude ideology of Afrocentric thematic poetry in the Carribean and showed that the poet's social criticism is linked to an ideology of white supremacy resulting from colonialism and slavery.;
Examines critically the national policy agenda, the extent of and reasons for underachievement of pupils of Black Caribbean heritage throughout each key stage in an inner city Local Educational Authority.
