Nicholas Laughlin · January, 2011

Latest posts by Nicholas Laughlin from January, 2011

Guyana: “real” men

The Signifyin’ Woman contemplates Caribbean homophobia and notions of what it means to be a “real” man vs an “anti” man.

24 January 2011

Cuba: Las Charangas de Bejucal

Repeating Islands links to an article on Las Charangas de Bejucal, a traditional new year's festival in a town not far from Havana, featuring illuminated floats, music, and dancing.

3 January 2011

Jamaica: broken dreams

At the start of the new year, Jamaican blogger Ruthibelle contemplates “a people who must live not as they want, but as they are compelled to by ‘circumstances beyond their...

3 January 2011

Jamaica: in the moment

“Tired of hearing of all the disasters, mistakes, deliberate wrongdoing and accumulated grief that made up 2010, in Jamaica,” Petchary suggests instead that readers welcome the new year by enjoying...

1 January 2011

Jamaica, Bahamas: three poets

Charmaine Valere shares her thoughts on “three Caribbean men of verse”–Jamaican poets Geoffrey Philp and Kei Miller and Bahamian Christian Campbell–whose poems she enjoyed in 2010.

1 January 2011