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As Haiti and Scotland prepare to meet in the men’s football World Cup on Saturday (or early Sunday morning on this side of the Atlantic), it might be a good time to remember another time representatives of the two countries came together on a historic occasion. The painting here is by the Haitian artist François … The post When Haiti Met Scotland appeared first on bulldozia .
Marking each day of the holidays with twelve quotations that each feature a chiasmus. ‘A certain redressing of the cosmic balance seems to have occurred: this time not only have I written about them, but they have written about me too.’ (Cees Nooteboom, Nomad’s Hotel) ‘I want you to say you love me, even though … The post Twelve Days of Chiasmus appeared first on bulldozia .
I The American radical campaigner, Henry Clarke Wright spent much of 1844-45 touring Scotland, making incendiary speeches condemning the Free Church for accepting donations from pro-slavery supporters in the United States. In one of his regular updates to William Lloyd Garrison, the editor of the Liberator, the abolitionist paper in Boston, he wrote from Arbroath … The post Eliza Greenfield: From…
I know Mike did a convincing impression of being a South Londoner. He made a pretty good stab at it. Others will testify to his life as a singer in the Jivin Instructors, devoted follower of Crystal Palace FC, and proud public servant with Southwark Library services. But for me he was always from the … The post Remembering Mike Croft (1958-2020) appeared first on bulldozia .
Thus the blues – ‘the black slave lament’ – was offered up for the admiration of the oppressors. Frantz Fanon, ‘Racism and Culture’ (1956) in Toward the African Revolution, trans. Haakon Chevalier (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1970), p. 47. A Bard’s Ransom It is curious, as Stephen Mullen recently observed, that Robert Burns – who never went … The post It Was in Sweet Senegal – Or Was it? Some Notes on…
Didier Daeninckx Cannibale Paris: Editions Verdier, 1998 96p ISBN : 978-2-86432-297-9 For a period of over fifty years, many thousands of people were conscripted to be exhibited as caricatures of themselves in the various world fairs, mostly in Europe and North America. They came from Africa, Asia, the Pacific and the Arctic. … The post Didier Daeninckx: Cannibale appeared first on bulldozia .
In the text, some of the names have been changed to protect identities (Alain de Botton, A Week at the Airport) Most of the names in the book have been changed (Roger Green, Destination Nowhere). Minor Characters and Travel Writing We’re all familiar with this disclaimer – or something similar – that appears at the … The post ‘Some of the Names Have Been Changed’ appeared first on bulldozia .
Glasgow has a distinguished tradition of creating alternative forums of dissent whenever the civic authorities announce their latest orgy of self-congratulation. Especially perhaps when it concerns the city’s relationship to the wider world. When Glasgow hosted the Commonwealth Games in 2014, Louise Welsh and Jude Barber convened The Empire Cafe in the Briggait as a … The post The Other Empire…
Janette Ayachi Hand Over Mouth Music Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2019 Hand Over Mouth Music is an intriguing name for a collection. The title poem suggests that it signifies silence – the music that is inhibited because a hand is over one’s mouth; a silence, or at least a song … The post Janette Ayachi: Hand Over Mouth Music appeared first on bulldozia .
Jemma Neville Constitution Street: Finding Hope in an Age of Anxiety [Edinburgh]: 404 Ink, 2019 There are some other good ‘street’ books that engage with the residents by someone who knows the area well. Flatbush Odyssey and Isolarion come to mind, emerging from peregrinations in Brooklyn and Oxford respectively.1 But this … The post Jemma Neville: Constitution Street appeared first on bulldozia .
