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• Remembering Leonard "Tim" Hector

  
  Leonard "Tim" Hector
  
  
  Every now and then, I'm asked about the differences between Caribbean and other regional literatures and invariably I end up paraphrasing Leonard "Tim" Hector, one of the most underappreciated public intellectuals from the Caribbean. So, instead of twisting his words, I’m reposting' [...]
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• Save a Dollar for The Christmas Dutch Pot Baby

  
  
  
  As some of you may have noticed, I haven’t been posting as regularly as I used to. My daughter and I are working on a new ebook, The Christmas Dutch Pot Baby. We had had hoped to publish our ebook last week, but my daughter met in a car accident. [...]
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• Miranda - N°7 - Geoffrey Philp, Dub Wise: Review

  
  Miranda - N°7 - Geoffrey Philp, Dub Wise: 
  
  "With this new collection, it is quite clear that Philp embodies the continuation of a Caribbean tradition of criticism and creative writing. Indeed, his style is deeply reminiscent of Derek Walcott’s poetry, densely metaphorical in "Beyond Mountain View"." [...]
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• Look for Me in the Whirlwind @ Brooklyn Borough Hall

  
  
  Marcus Garvey - Look For Me in the Whirlwind tells the life story of this controversial leader by using a wealth of material from the Garvey movement-written documents, film and photographs-to reveal what motivated a poor Jamaican to set up an international organization for the African diaspora, what [...]
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• Book Review: Exceptional Violence by Deborah A. Thomas

  
  
  Name of the book: Exceptional Violence: Embodied Citizenship in Transnational Jamaica 
  
  Author:  Deborah A. Thomas 
  
  Publisher: Duke University Press Books 
  
  What's the book about?  "Exceptional Violence is a sophisticated examination of postcolonial state formation in the Caribbean, considered across time and space, from the period of imperial'" [...]
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• RIP: Jan Carew, Guyanese Literary Icon

  
  
  Renowned Guyana-born literary icon, Professor Jan Carew has died.
  He was 92 years old.
  Speaking to Demerara Waves Online News (www.demwaves.com ) from the United States, his daughter, Shantoba Carew said he died of natural causes at midnight Wednesday 5 December at his home in Louisville, Kentucky, [...]
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• Brother to Brother: Marcus Garvey and the "Father Wound"

  
  
  I'm very excited about the Brother to Brother program that has been spearheaded by Professor Isabel Rodriguez-Dehmer in College Prep, North Campus, Miami Dade College.
  Professor Rodriguez-Dehmer has invited me to speak to her students, a group of young, Black males, who have been taking classes at the Carrie P. Meek' [...]
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• Call for Papers:ACLALS Conference

  
  
  Connecting Cultures and the Commonwealth, ACLALS Conference
  The 16th Triennial ACLALS (Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies) Conference
  St. Lucia, West Indies,
  August 5 –9, 2013
  CFP deadline: 15 December 2012
  
  Information direct from CFP below:
  
  “‘The current unbroken/ the circuits kept open’: Connecting [...]
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