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THE 'CATASTROPHIC CONSCIOUSNESS OF BACKWARDNESS': CULTURE AND DEPENDENCY THEORY IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
This article examines the relationship between economic and cultural dependency. Its analysis is framed by Enrique Dussel's methodological insistence on the international transfer of surplus value as the essence of dependency. Beginning with an examination of the heyday of classical dependency theory in Latin America and the Caribbean in the 1960s and 1970s, the article moves on to consider the increasing importance accorded culture as a site of power and struggle, focusing on the work of Sylvia Wynter. The second half of the article turns to the literary registration of dependency. Arguing that literary works can provide a barometric reading of the pressures of underdevelopment in advance of political-economic analyses, I consider Patrícia Galv o's Parque Industrial (1933) and Olive Senior's 'Boxed-In' (2015). Published, respectively, some forty years either side of the heyday of dependency theory, these paradigmatic fictions are examples of both the diagnostic and active role of literature in responding to the depredations of dependency.
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Conceptual Residues of Imperialist Ruination
The necessary confrontation with the epistemological legacy of imperialism is one of the main interventions of postcolonial criticism.1 For postcolonial ecocritic Elizabeth DeLoughrey, imperialism led to, among other things, conceptual corrosion: the \"erasure of indigenous knowledges\" (and knowledge systems) and the \"erection of a hierarchy of species\" (\"Ecocriticism\" 265). The idea of the Caribbean woman as 'miracle worker' is suggested in the ability to \"make something from nothing,\" but it also calls up the biblical Creation story, whereby the world was created from nothing.3 In this regard, there is not only a creative impulse associated with 'making do,' as expressed in the description of \"cutting, carving and contriving,\" but also a transformative imagination to see value where others saw nothingness or worthlessness. In Black Sand, Baugh ironically begins with \"End Poem,\" in which, as I have argued before,4 he \"signals the importance of using poetry to shine light on the left-behind-life's detritus, 'the rubbish heap of history,' if you may, on which Caribbean creative endeavour thrives-making 'rubble' and 'weed' 'central tropes of creative expression'\" (Bucknor). The diction here in the phrase \"strike music\" connotatively implies 'striking gold,' more in line with Walcott's idea of the \"Adamic elation\" of a creative breakthrough, as opposed to a Christopher Columbus colonial mode of discovery (\"Muse\" 36-37): [A]nd when that daring song tower falls, may goats and children know delight poking round each rubble height and sunlight strike bright music from shards of weed-grown walls.
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Caribbean Basins
Mapping is a dynamic process that is not always executed by a cartographer on parchment but can be done by the community being mapped with different textual and visual techniques. The Caribbean region may be understood as a space, for it is not a static place but rather a group of islands and nations that are united by a common body of water that continues to physically shape the land(scape). The function of the rhizome is important to how I understand the way the Caribbean relates to the world. [...]it informs what Glissant believes about form as a proponent of Deleuze and Guattari's rhizomatic thinking: \"The book is always a more contrived medium in its dependence on contaminated materials to transmit meaning and its temptation to freeze what is shifting and elusive\" (Glissant xxvi). According to R. P. Draper, \"[C]oncrete poetry is the creation of verbal artefacts which exploit the possibilities, not only of sound, sense and rhythm-the traditional fields of poetry-but also of space\" (329).
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Over the Roofs of the World
Using nature as both model and metaphor, Toronto resident Olive Senior delves into birds, flying, and Caribbean life in her third book of poems. Following her much-loved collections, Gardening in the Tropics and Talking of Trees, this long-awaited book of poems is sure to delight readers around the world. Translated into several languages, represented in numerous anthologies, and broadcast in Canada, Britain, and the Caribbean, Senior's work enjoys international acclaim. Her work is taught at universities around the world, and her short story collection, Summer Lightning, has been a literature textbook in Caribbean schools. She has taught creative writing workshops at universities in Canada, the US, the UK, and the Caribbean, and is on the faculty of the Humber School for Writers.
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Senior, Olive (1941– )
(1941– ),
poet and short‐story writer, born and raised in Jamaica and educated at Carleton University, Ottawa; she
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