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De Afrikaanse dimensie in de poëzie van de Puerto Ricaanse dichter Luis Palés Matos
door Fred de Haas
Het heeft tot het begin van de 20e eeuw geduurd voordat er op de Spaanssprekende eilanden van de Cariben überhaupt sprake was van een duidelijke Afrikaanse component in de dichtkunst van de eilanden. Dat kwam omdat de blanke bovenlaag het Afrikaanse element in de cultuur heeft proberen weg te moffelen of te negeren.
read on…Nicolás Guillén – Zweet en zweep
Zweep,
zweet en zweep,
De zon stond vroeg op
en vond de neger barrevoets,
Naakt en doorstriemd tot op ’t bot,
op het veld.
Zweep,
zweet en zweep.
De wind kwam voorbij en huilde:
‘Welke zwarte bloem in elke hand!’
Het bloed zei hem: ‘Vooruit!’
Hij zei tot het bloed: ‘Vooruit!’
Hij liep weg, bebloed, barrevoets.
Het suikerrietveld, bevend,
liet hem uit.
Daarna de zwijgende hemel
en onder de hemel de slaaf
badend in bloed van de baas.
Zweep,
zweet en zweep,
badend in bloed van de baas;
Zweep,
zweet en zweep,
badend in bloed van de baas,
badend in bloed van de baas. read on…
Nicolás Guillén: The First West Indian
by Montague Kobbe
One of the great paradoxes of the Caribbean as a region revolves around the fact that there is an evident connection between the history, the culture and the heritage of each of the territories, which nevertheless is contrasted by the palpable – drastic, even – differences experienced in the realities of islands and countries that often lie within a few miles of each other. Inscribed within the colonial discourse, these differences were emphasized by the very system that prompted them, ultimately leading to the sort of extreme fragmentation that to this day – half a century after the demise of colonialism – assails the region.
read on…Shifting the Geography of Reason
CPA Annual Meeting 2011
Every year, the Caribbean Philosophical Association (CPA) invites proposals from scholars in any discipline who aim to “shift the geography of reason” by exploring critical, theoretical, and creative questions about or relating to the Caribbean, its Diaspora, and the “global south” more generally, including the South in the North. We particularly welcome North-South and South-South intersections and/or dialogues. The theme for this year’s meeting deals with migrations and diaspora. While proposals dealing with the broader organizing theme of the CPA (“shifting the geography of reason”) will be welcome, the organizers are especially interested in presentations and panels that highlight questions about space, traveling, national and transnational communities, gender and sexuality, and issues of race and identity across migrations and diasporas not only in the Caribbean, but globally. We accept proposals in English, French, and Span
CPA 2011
Shifting the Geography of Reason VIII:
The University, Public Education and the Transformation of Society
September 29-October 1 2011
Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Featuring:
*Plenary session commemorating 50 years of Frantz Fanon’s passing with Mireille Fanon-Mendès France, Lewis Gordon, Nigel Gibson, Drucilla Cornell, and others TBA
*Boaventura de Sousa Santos on the crisis of the university
*Panel on the crisis of the humanities with Walter D. Mignolo, Nelson Maldonado-Torres, and other participants TBA
*Plenary session awarding the 2011 Frantz Fanon and Nicolás Guillén Prizes:
2011 Frantz Fanon Award winners are: Susan Buck-Morss for Hegel, Haiti, and University History, and Marilyn Nissim-Sabat for Neither Victim nor Survivor: Thinking Toward a New Humanity (attendance confirmed).
2011 Nicolás Guillén Award winner: Junot Díaz (attendance confirmed).
As always, we invite submissions (papers, panels, roundtables) that explore race and racism, gender, colonization and decolonization, sexuality, imperialism, and migration, social and intellectual movements, and related areas, not only in the Caribbean, but globally. We accept proposals in English, French, and Spanish.
Zie verder de link van de Caribbean Philosophical Association in de rechterkolom onder Organisaties
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