Roberta Stoddart’s richly complex oil paintings showcased in The Bertha Room, prove that it is dark under the metaphoric flotsam of Wide Sargasso Sea, darker still under the shade of the palm tree’s symbolism, and perhaps darkest of all where racial, familial, patriarchal, and post-colonial trauma festers muted and unseen.
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ISIS SEMAJ-HALL / RIDDIM WRITER
Dub is what happens when time collapses. But it is not the collapse of all time, just the collapse of their time. Dub is the collapse of their time and the rise of fi wi time. Do you follow me? Or do you prefer to see where I’m going?
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As I reflect on race and racism the Caribbean, as I think about the politics of hate in the Caribbean, and as I question decolonial thinking in this region, I cannot help but think of Rodney.
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An essay on gender politics in the Caribbean and how its slowly but surely changing. By Isis Semaj-Hall.
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ISIS SEMAJ-HALL On the face of it, pree is not a Caribbean word. Pree is a Jamaican word. Press...
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