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    particularly Helen Betty Osborne’s death in the Pas. In his book Black Like Who?‚ Rinaldo Walcott includes two essays ("A Tough Geography": Towards a Poetics of Black Space(s) in Canada and "No Language is Neutral": The Politics of Performativity in M. Nourbese Philip’s and Dionne Brand’s Poetry) on Brand’s poetry and the principal themes of her work. (Brand herself had previously used a line from Derek Walcott to title her collection No Language is Neutral‚ in which she "uses language to disturb"

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    "All the generations Before me" is a poem written by Yehuda Amichai. The Poem is of Nazi period. The poet expresses his feeling which he experience during that period. Yehuda Amichai is a German Jew whose family fled the Nasis and emigrated to Palestine in 1936. The poem talks about the Nazi regime and the period. He fought the World war II and the Israeli war of Independence. | He has written novels and plays and has taught from time to time in American Universities. He is known for his

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    jungle of Tokyo they find each other hauntingly similar and form a bond‚ which exposes many truths. Furthermore these notions of navigation through knowledge‚ values and culture are expressed in Ang Lee’s 2012 theatrical motion picture ‘Life of Pi‚’ Derek Walcott’s poem ‘A Cry From Africa‚’ Kanye West’s popular culture commentary ‘Who Will Survive in America?’ and Jan Nederveen Pieterse’s complex essay ‘Globalisation as Hybridisation.’ Clearly evident within ‘Lost in Translation’ the central protagonists

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    O’Neil. London‚ Cape.‚ 1923. Soyinka‚ Wole. A dance of the forests. London : Oxford University Press‚ 1963. ---.The Lion and the Jewel. London‚ Oxford University Press‚ 1963. ---. Death and The King’s Horseman. New York : Norton‚ 2003. WalcottDerek. Dream on monkey mountain. Alexandria‚ Va.: Alexander Street Press‚ 2002. ---. Ti-Jean and his brothers. Alexandria‚ Va.: Alexander Street Press‚ 2002. ---. Pantomime. Alexandria‚ VA: Alexander Street Press‚ 2003. Williams‚ Tennessee. A streetcar

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    Notes on L’Loupgarou by Derek Walcott This sonnet has 10 syllables to each of the 14 lines. The octave outlines the situation in which a man has been betrayed‚ and ruined and is shunned by his community and gossiping old women who spread rumours about him. The sestet gives details of the superstitious story which has an obvious effect on these people and how Le’ Brun met his demise. The title of the Poem- L’Loupgarou is French for werewolf. French terms and French based Creole are still used

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    Loot. Murder. Stampede. Dacoity. Rape. Abduction. Corpse. Bloodshed. Abandonment. Turmoil. These are all terms that bring to our minds a grotesque‚ dark and gory picture associated with any conflict in the history of mankind. Conflicts‚ whether arising out of deliberative or instinctive reasons‚ lead to the same end of loss‚ grief and many questions to which no one has ever had answers to. Why does a conflict take place? How can you resolve it? Can you resolve it at all? Can you evade from it? Conflicts

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    Rastafarians in Post-Independence Caribbean Poetry in English (the 1960s and the 1970s): from Pariahs to Cultural Creators Eric DOUMERC‚ Maître de conférences - Université Toulouse 2 – Le Mirail erdoum@aol.com L’objectif de cet article est d’examiner plusieurs modes de représentation des Rastafariens dans la poésie antillaise anglophone des années 1960 et 1970. Après s’être attardé sur le contexte historique et culturel‚ il sera question de trois tendances générales dans la représentation des

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    70 years apart‚ which of the writers do you find to be more optimistic about the ability of women to stand up to men and the associated pressures of a patriarchal society. Bernard Shaw Pygmalion was written in 1914 a time which was very patriarchal the women’s rights had not been passed whereas grace Nichol’s fat black women poem had been written after the women’s rights movements‚ grace Nichol’s was living in London where we had a woman prime minister and the independence of woman was very much

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    Caribbean Voices : Living a Double life / Dual Identities. Caribbean Poetry is the expression of the constant dualistic nature of the Caribbean identity. Caribbean Poetry exemplifies a unique hybrid made from the voice of the Caribbean experience and its postcolonial English heritage but this creates an inner crisis. The inner crisis of two conflicting cultures that create further conflicting ideas of home and belonging on one hand and growth and fulfilment on the other. But it is also about the

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    Marie-Elena John (born 1963) is a Caribbean writer whose first novel‚ Unburnable‚ was published in 2006. She was born and raised in Antigua and is a former development specialist of the African Development Foundation‚ the World Council of Churches’ Program to Combat Racism‚ and Global Rights (formerly the International Human Rights Law Group)‚ where she worked in support of the pro-democracy movement in Nigeria and in the Democratic Republic of Congo. She is known especially for her work in the United

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