Pressure Points
A personal reflection in which literary scholar Kavita Ashana Singh responds to the National Gallery of Jamaica’s 2022 Kingston Biennial and its theme, Pressure, which piques her curiousity and interest.
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Shades of Brown: The Life and Times of The Satanic Verses
The Satanic Verses represented a paradigm shift on several levels across the Islamisphere, not least among converts in the West. For one thing, the original text was written in English, which saved many of us the time-consuming argument that something must have been lost in translation.
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NEALA LUNA The imam caught all manner of jinn, trapped them in glass jars; buried them in the dark two feet deep beneath silk cotton trees. His great-grandson once caught a purple jellyfish, entombed tentacles and all in a cocoa...
Read MoreRitual for Remaking Yourself/ The Naming of Things
It’s true,
Sometimes meaning moves through a sound
like current, like darting silver
