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The ICI Berlin celebrates the publication of The Oxford Handbook of Dante, edited by Manuele Gragnolati, Elena Lombardi, and Francesca Southerden (2021) with a Online Lecture Series series of lectures that suggest ways of reading Dante’s Comedy from a less cen- tral position and with a broader, more critical perspective. How can discussions of race in the Middle Ages and the attentiveness to indigenous forms of knowledge preservation help literary scholars to rethink their understanding of ’canonicity’ and the ’canonical‘? On what basis can canonical authors such as Dante, Chaucer, and Christine de Pizan continue to be read today? In what sense and at what cost In English can Dante inspire other poets? What does he mean, more specifically, to a wom- an writer and artist in Jamaica? What changes when Dante’s Virgil is read not only as part of the Christian reception of classical authors in the Middle Ages, but also in dialogue with the practices of ancient pedagogy? Does the queer desire inform- ing the Aeneid also flow through Dante’s poem? Monday A lecture series on the occasion of the publication of The Oxford Handbook of Dante 10 May 2021 ed. by Manuele Gragnolati, Elena Lombardi, and Francesca Southerden (2021) in Suzanne Conklin Akbari Wednesday cooperation with Équipe littérature et culture italiennes (Sorbonne Université) and Bard College Berlin for the Lorna Goodison lecture 12 May 2021 Lorna Goodison Monday 7 June 2021 Gary Cestaro Organized by each at 19:00 Manuele Gragnolati ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry Christinenstr. 18/19, Haus 8 D–10119 Berlin Tel: +49 30 473 72 91 10 www.ici-berlin.org U-Bhf Senefelder Platz (U2) Dante Monday, 10 May 2021 prophet, stern as a Rastafarian elder, and loving and compassionate as my own and the di- Moderated by Elena Lombardi and Francesca Southerden • 19:00 vine mother. -
Jamaican Women Poets and Writers' Approaches to Spirituality and God By
RE-CONNECTING THE SPIRIT: Jamaican Women Poets and Writers' Approaches to Spirituality and God by SARAH ELIZABETH MARY COOPER A thesis submitted to The University of Birmingham for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Centre of West African Studies School of Historical Studies The University of Birmingham October 2004 University of Birmingham Research Archive e-theses repository This unpublished thesis/dissertation is copyright of the author and/or third parties. The intellectual property rights of the author or third parties in respect of this work are as defined by The Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 or as modified by any successor legislation. Any use made of information contained in this thesis/dissertation must be in accordance with that legislation and must be properly acknowledged. Further distribution or reproduction in any format is prohibited without the permission of the copyright holder. Abstract Chapter One asks whether Christianity and religion have been re-defined in the Jamaican context. The definitions of spirituality and mysticism, particularly as defined by Lartey are given and reasons for using these definitions. Chapter Two examines history and the Caribbean religious experience. It analyses theory and reflects on the Caribbean difference. The role that literary forefathers and foremothers have played in defining the writers about whom my research is concerned is examined in Chapter Three, as are some of their selected works. Chapter Four reflects on the work of Lorna Goodison, asks how she has defined God whether within a Christian or African framework. In contrast Olive Senior appears to view Christianity as oppressive and this is examined in Chapter Five. -
Lorna Goodison
www.jamaicaobserver.com twitter.com/jamaicaobserver The Sunday Observer March 4, 2018 #InConVerSation: The Muse of Memory Is The Muse of Poetry: Bookends presents the first of a series Mandeville. Because I love how we talk, of conversations #InConVerSation I try to write in a mixture of Standard between the writer Jacqueline Bishop An Interview With Poet English and Jamaican speech so that it and phenomenal women writers who call resonates perfectly to Jamaican ears but Jamaica home. Today’s featured writer is it is still accessible to non-Jamaicans. Poet Laureate of Jamaica Lorna Goodison. Somebody once wrote that I seem to be Laureate Lorna Goodison trying to inscribe Jamaican culture onto the and Poetry Summer Workshop. This was business for quite some time. My first consciousness of the world. I think that is a ORNA, I start by saying thank you so a workshop designed to teach young girls collection of poetry was published in good thing! much for granting this interview. I basic self-defence and poetry writing. It 1980, by the Institute of Jamaica Press, must say I was moved to tears when was taught by the well-known Jamaican and individual poems of mine had been One of your initiatives as the new poet it was announced that you would be poet and martial arts expert Cherry appearing in various magazines and in laureate of Jamaica is the Helen Zell prize L Natural, and the poet Yashika Graham. Jamaican Sunday newspapers for at for young poets. Can you expand on this and the new Poet Laureate of Jamaica. -
Victor Stafford Reid Was Born on May 1, 1913, in Kingston, Jamaica, to Alexander and Margaret Reid
Biography Victor Stafford Reid was born on May 1, 1913, in Kingston, Jamaica, to Alexander and Margaret Reid. Victor, his two brothers and one sister grew up in Kingston where they attended school. He was educated at Central Branch Primary and the Kingston Technical High School. During his early life, Reid was employed in various positions. He also traveled to several countries. He worked as a farm overseer, a news- paper reporter, advertising executive, and journalist and at different times edited the weekly newspaper Public Opinion and the news magazine Spotlight. In addition, he held several posts in the Jamaican Government. These included serving as Chair- man of the Jamaica National Trust Commission (1974- 1981) and a trustee of the Historic Foundation Research Centre (1980). In 1935, he married Victoria Monica Jacobs. The marriage produced four children, Shirley, Vic Jr., Sonia and Peter. His extensive travels helped to shape his passion of writing. One of his greatest influences was his exposure to Anancy stories and other folk tales of Jamaica which he heard from several story-tellers, but particularly from his mother. Most of his fiction is set in rural Jamaica with which Reid identified and to which he returned frequently, for reinvigora- tion and inspiration. He made Jamaica, its history and its peo- ple the focus of his works; several, of which have become standard text books for studies in Jamaica and the Caribbean. He died on August 25, 1987,at the age of 74. Who was Victor Stafford Reid Victor Stafford Reid (Vic Reid) was one of a handful of writers to emerge from the new literary and nationalist movement that seized Jamaican sentiment in the period of the late 1930s. -
'I Arise and Go with William Butler Yeats…': Cultural Dovetailing In
Irish Migration Studies in Latin America ‘I arise and go with William Butler Yeats…’: Cultural Dovetailing in Lorna Goodison’s Country Sligoville By Lamia Tewfik [1] Abstract This paper presents a reading of Lorna Goodison’s poem ‘Country Sligoville’, published in 1999. The value of this poem rests in the condensed articulation and juxtaposition of a myriad of cultural allusions, imagery and references that belong to Irish and Jamaican contexts. It is argued here that this articulation stems both from a the poet’s personal affiliation for the works of W. B. Yeats, as well as an active presence of the two cultures in Jamaica. The powerful embracing of the multiple elements with which the region's cultural history is invested moves away from the extremes of ‘revenge’ and ‘remorse’ warned against by Derek Walcott. Moreover, the eloquent voice which the narrative persona in the poem is endowed with creates a balance between the diverse Irish and Jamaican elements. The ability to embrace such diversity in a creative way without privileging one side over the other allows to poet to break away from traditional hierarchical perceptions in favour of a serenity emanating from reconciliation. The works of contemporary Caribbean women Indeed the cultural similarities between the two writers display their remarkable abilities of ‘Sligos’ has prompted a recent call for a putting in play the myriad of diverse cultural ‘twinning’ of the two. In a ‘twin town’ initiative elements embedded in the cultural history and Sligo’s namesake in Jamaica has been making contexts of the region. The rich heterogeneous an effort to organise official visits and cultural cultural toolkit they use makes their texts an exchange with Yeats’ county (‘Twinning Suitors ideal site for tracking/locating the interactions 2007: 1). -
Perhaps One of the Most Insightful Critiques Of
Miller, Andrew Kei (2012) Jamaica to the world: a study of Jamaican (and West Indian) epistolary practices. PhD thesis http://theses.gla.ac.uk/3597/ Copyright and moral rights for this thesis are retained by the author A copy can be downloaded for personal non-commercial research or study, without prior permission or charge This thesis cannot be reproduced or quoted extensively from without first obtaining permission in writing from the Author The content must not be changed in any way or sold commercially in any format or medium without the formal permission of the Author When referring to this work, full bibliographic details including the author, title, awarding institution and date of the thesis must be given. Glasgow Theses Service http://theses.gla.ac.uk/ [email protected] Jamaica to the World: A Study of Jamaican (and West Indian) Epistolary Practices Andrew Kei Miller MA Submitted in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy English Literature School of Critical Studies College of Arts University of Glasgow 1 ABSTRACT The Caribbean islands have been distinguished by mass migratory patterns and diasporic communities that have moved into and out of the region; as a consequence, the genre of the letter has been an important one to the culture and has provided a template for many creative works. This dissertation is the first major study on West Indian epistolary practices: personal letters, emails, verse epistles, epistolary novels, letters to editors, etc. It focuses on a contemporary period – from the 1930s to the present, and on examples that have come out of Jamaica. -
Kei Miller. a Light Song of Light. (Carcanet, 2010) --Alison Donnell 'A
Kei Miller. A Light Song of Light. (Carcanet, 2010) --Alison Donnell ‘a story will come to steal your breath’ writes Kei Miller in the parting words of his third poetry collection, A Light Song of Light. He does not make false promises. It is no exaggeration to say that Miller has already left the scorch marks of an ascending star on the literary scenes of both the Anglophone Caribbean and Britain since his debut in 2006 with his first poetry collection, Kingdom of Empty Bellies. His short story collection, Fear of Stones, published just one year later, was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. In 2008, his second poetry collection, There is an Anger That Moves, was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize and his first novel The Same Earth, for the Scottish Book of the Year. His second novel, The Last Warner Woman, was published in 2010, the same year that this third poetry collection was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. Miller, born in Jamaica in 1978, is unmistakably a Caribbean writer. His works are infused with knowledge and voice from a range of distinct and embedded cultural sources. At the centre of A Light Song of Light’s lyrical and reverse gravity is the figure of the Singerman, a man employed to sing songs as people worked the roads - a properly local poet. The collection also draws on the oral dexterity and experiential density of voices from the balmyard and the church, invoking the foreboding wit of the reluctant Justice of the Peace and gesturing to a regional literary dialogue with fellow Caribbean writers Thomas Glave, Lorna Goodison, Mervyn Morris and the late Martin Carter. -
Rhythmic Literacy: Poetry, Reading and Public Voices in Black Atlantic Poetics
RHYTHMIC LITERACY: POETRY, READING AND PUBLIC VOICES IN BLACK ATLANTIC POETICS A Dissertation Submitted to the Temple University Graduate Board in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY By Janet Neigh May, 2010 Examining Committee Members: Rachel Blau DuPlessis, English Suzanne Gauch, English Jena Osman, English Harvey Neptune, History Jahan Ramazani, External Member, English, University of Virginia ii © Copyright 2010 by Janet Neigh All Rights Reserved iii ABSTRACT Rhythmic Literacy: Poetry, Reading and Public Voices in Black Atlantic Poetics analyzes the poetry of the African American Langston Hughes and the Jamaican Louise Bennett during the 1940s. Through an examination of the unique similarities of their poetic projects, namely their engagement of performance to build their audiences, their experiments with poetic personae to represent vernacular social voices, their doubleness as national and transnational figures, their circulation of poetry in radio and print journalism and their use of poetry as pedagogy to promote reading, this dissertation establishes a new perspective on the role of poetry in decolonizing language practices. While Hughes and Bennett are often celebrated for their representation of oral language and folk culture, this project reframes these critical discussions by drawing attention to how they engage performance to foster an embodied form of reading that draws on Creole knowledge systems, which I term rhythmic literacy. Growing up in the U.S and Jamaica in the early twentieth century, Hughes and Bennett were both subjected to a similar Anglophone transatlantic schoolroom poetry tradition, which they contend with as one of their only available poetic models. I argue that memorization and recitation practices play a formative role in the development of their poetic projects. -
Caribbean Poetry in America
Making History Happen Making History Happen Caribbean Poetry in America By Derrilyn E. Morrison Making History Happen: Caribbean Poetry in America By Derrilyn E. Morrison This book first published 2015 Cambridge Scholars Publishing Lady Stephenson Library, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 2PA, UK British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Copyright © 2015 by Derrilyn E. Morrison All rights for this book reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owner. ISBN (10): 1-4438-7442-6 ISBN (13): 978-1-4438-7442-7 TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface ....................................................................................................... vii Acknowledgements ..................................................................................... xi Introduction ................................................................................................. 1 Migration, Relation, Location: Mobilizing History through the Poetic Imagination Chapter One ............................................................................................... 17 Re-membering the Journey: History and Memory in Lorna Goodison’s Turn Thanks Chapter Two .............................................................................................. 39 Home, Memory, and Identity: Shara McCallum’s The Water between -
Vol 23 / No. 1 & 2 / April/November 2015
1 Vol 23 / No. 1 & 2 / April/November 2015 Volume 23 Nos. 1 & 2 April/November 2015 Published by the discipline of Literatures in English, University of the West Indies CREDITS Original image: Nadia Huggins Anu Lakhan (copy editor) Nadia Huggins (graphic designer) JWIL is published with the financial support of the Departments of Literatures in English of The University of the West Indies Enquiries should be sent to THE EDITORS Journal of West Indian Literature Department of Literatures in English, UWI Mona Kingston 7, JAMAICA, W.I. Tel. (876) 927-2217; Fax (876) 970-4232 e-mail: [email protected] OR Ms. Angela Trotman Department of Language, Linguistics and Literature Faculty of Humanities, UWI Cave Hill Campus P.O. Box 64, Bridgetown, BARBADOS, W.I. e-mail: [email protected] SUBSCRIPTION RATE US$20 per annum (two issues) or US$10 per issue Copyright © 2015 Journal of West Indian Literature ISSN (online): 2414-3030 EDITORIAL COMMITTEE Evelyn O’Callaghan (Editor in Chief) Michael A. Bucknor (Senior Editor) Glyne Griffith Rachel L. Mordecai Lisa Outar Ian Strachan BOOK REVIEW EDITOR Antonia MacDonald EDITORIAL BOARD Edward Baugh Victor Chang Alison Donnell Mark McWatt Maureen Warner-Lewis EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD Laurence A. Breiner Rhonda Cobham-Sander Daniel Coleman Anne Collett Raphael Dalleo Denise deCaires Narain Curdella Forbes Aaron Kamugisha Geraldine Skeete Faith Smith Emily Taylor THE JOURNAL OF WEST INDIAN LITERATURE has been published twice-yearly by the Departments of Literatures in English of the University of the West Indies since October 1986. Edited by full time academics and with minimal funding or institutional support, the Journal originated at the same time as the first annual conference on West Indian Literature, the brainchild of Edward Baugh, Mervyn Morris and Mark McWatt. -
Beinecke Library Annual Report 2017-2018.Pdf
BEINECKE ILLUMINATED No. 4, 2017–18 Annual Report Front cover: Unveiling on May 4, 2018, of the winning entry in a juried competition, open to Yale art and architecture students, in conjunction with the course 1968@50: Art, Architecture, and Cultures of Protest. The sculpture was on view on the mezzanine through May 12. Back cover: Author Judy Blume visiting with her archives, recently acquired by the library Contributors The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library acknowledges the following for their assistance in creating and compiling the content in this annual report. Articles written by, or adapted from, Matthew Beacom, Mike Cummings, Bess Connolly Martell, and Michael Morand, with editorial assistance and guidance from Tubyez Cropper, Dante Haughton, and Lesley Baier. Statistics compiled by Matthew Beacom, Moira Fitzgerald, Robin Mooring, and the staff of Technical Services, Access Services, and Administration. Photographs by Tubyez Cropper, Mariah Kreutter, Mara Lavitt, Michael Morand, and Ryan Seffinger. Design by Rebecca Martz, Office of the University Printer. Copyright ©2018 by Yale University facebook.com/beinecke @beineckelibrary twitter.com/BeineckeLibrary beinecke.library.yale.edu subsCribe to library news subscribe.yale.edu BEINECKE ILLUMINATED No. 4, 2017–18 Annual Report 4 From the Director 5 Exhibitions and Events Takamiya Exhibition Illuminated the Making of the Medieval English Manuscript Exhibition Showcased Collaboration as an Art Form Show Examined How Text and Textiles “ask us to remember” Mark Strand Memorial -
Writin' and Soundin' a Transnational Caribbean Experience
Spring 2013 Dubbin’ the Literary Canon: Writin’ and Soundin’ A Transnational Caribbean Experience Warren Harding Candidate for Honors Africana Studies Africana Studies Honors Committee: Meredith Gadsby, Chair Gordon Gill Caroline Jackson Smith 2 ABSTRACT In the mid-1970s, a collective of Jamaican poets from Kingston to London began to use reggae as a foundational aesthetic to their poetry. Inspired by the rise of reggae music and the work of the Caribbean Artists Movement based London from 1966 to 1972, these artists took it upon themselves to continue the dialogue on Caribbean cultural production. This research will explore the ways in which dub poetry created an expressive space for Jamaican artists to complicate discussions of migration and colonialism in the transnational Caribbean experience. In order to do so, this research engages historical, ethnomusicological, and literary theories to develop a framework to analyze dub poetry. It will primarily pose the question, how did these dub poets expand the archives of Caribbean national production? This paper will suggest that by facilitating a dialogue among Jamaicans located between London and Kingston, dub poetry expanded the archives for Caribbean cultural production. In this expansion, dub poetry’s simultaneous combination of literary and sound genius not only repositioned geographical boundaries of Jamaican identity but also grounded the intersecting spaces of the written, spoken, recorded, and performed word. 3 Table of Contents Introduction………………………………………………………………………...4-9 Theories,