Faith Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 3672424 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Faith Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Faith |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brandeis University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5439-6755 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
In the Company of Radical Women Writers
Standpipes, Chimmeys , and Memorialization in the Caribbean
In this essay I read debates about amenities of water and waste in the British Caribbean in the late and immediate post-Victorian period through histories of intimacy and kinship centered in fiction by Caribbean writers of the last twenty years. In these novels and short stories, collecting water at a stream or a standpipe or emptying a chamber pot are actions that produce or recall moments of desire and aspiration, shame and punishment, in story…
Located by Victorianism
This essay on the “English-speaking Caribbean” reflects on pasts that have not passed but have instead been passed on, for example in gestures of erasure, silence, or genteel substitution, whether in the Victorian novel or the twenty-first-century novel that insistently returns to the past, or in the rhetoric of law and statecraft. In addition, I consider how Victorianism has reproduced itself in postcolonial Caribbean and British life, with cons…
Cultural Criticism and Its Generations
Maureen Warner-Lewis's extraordinary body of cultural criticism proposes a new temporal engagement with the place of the African continent in the Caribbean. Her work and career suggest some of the dispositions of the Mona Generation (UWI) of the mid-1960s to early 1970s. Read against some of the debates of the era, her work veers from an expected ideological path; or the path she takes, read as ideological in a particular way, shines an unexpecte…
Moments of Cooperation and Incorporation
The Soundings with My Sisters
This essay uses the discussion of Neville Dawes's The Last Enchantment and Beverley Manley's The Manley Memoirs to interrogate intimate scripts of the independence moment and to suggest that these confound accounts of the era as either radical or conservative
Queer Livity in the Caribbean
This essay responds to Rosamond S. King's Island Bodies: Transgressive Sexualities in the Caribbean Imagination (2014) by noting the convergence of progressive legislation and violence that renders notions of transgression and freedom contradictory and fraught in our contemporary moment, thus helping to frame the book's relevance. Island Bodies draws attention to the sexed subject's embeddedness in notions of authenticity (within the Caribbean as…
Pathologies of paradise
Supriya Nair’s new book ends by gesturing towards a future that, while uncertain, promises ‘a new script’ with a ‘fresh cast of actors, heroes, and villains’, but that is also certain to be guided
Rupert Gray's Vulnerability … and Ours
This essay argues that the death of a fictional photographer in the 1907 novel Rupert Gray: A Tale in Black and White allays anxieties posed by photographic surveillance and “feminization.” Even if the novel's faith in the British Empire disqualifies it from being radical, its portrayal of the political fortunes of black male leadership in the Caribbean as potentially thwarted by female authority, ancestral shame, and the objectification of touri…
Good Enough for Booker T to Kiss
This article examines the raced and gendered investments of early twentieth-century Caribbean subjects in Booker T. Washington, who was perhaps the most powerful African American in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and the two educational institutions with which he was associated, the Tuskegee and Hampton Institutes
Brother Man's Asceticism
on 13 june 1951, front page of Jamaica's Daily Gleaner carried headlines about brutal murder of man on Kingston's Palisadoes Road, and stabbing and rape of his companion, who survived to describe their assailant as a bearded man. 'Rasta Man' Charged with Palisadoes Murder, blared front page on next day, 14 June, in an immediate association of bearded men, Rastafari, and criminality. Public outrage was reflected in furious letters to editor in day…
Between Stephen Lloyd and Esteban Yo-eed
In their oft-cited manifesto, the Martinican Creolists exhort Caribbean people to forego their continuing allegiances to the "mythical shores" of various old worlds, and to affirm instead the "alluvial Creoleness" that binds (or that ought to bind) them to each other, and to other communities across the globe with a similar plantation history: "Neither Europeans, nor Africans, nor Asians, we proclaim ourselves Creoles; "[the Creole language] is t…
Books
Caribbean Middlebrow: Leisure Culture and the Middle Class. By Belinda Edmondson. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2010. Pp. 223. ISBN 9780801448140. $45 (hbk). Belinda Edmondson's Caribbean Middl
"Only His Hat Is Left"? Resituating Not-Yet Narratives
This essay uses the three interlocutors' reflections to return to Creole Recitations, and to reconsider Thomas's nineteenth century as an arena for thinking about Caribbean male intellectuals' self-fashioning and desire, diaspora and degeneration, the sexual politics of creolization, and what it means to think of the period as merely preceding the anglophone Caribbean's important political and cultural developments
"Commentary on "Public Bodies
Crosses/Crossroads/Crossings
This essay discusses Jacqui Alexander's Pedagogies of Crossing as framing an analysis of the curtailment of erotic autonomy in the United States and the Caribbean, the failures of liberal feminism and academia, and the propensity for military intervention, with an examination of the possibilities offered by the sacred
"Commentary on "Public Bodies
Women, Identity, and Intellectual Life in Early Twentieth-Century Puerto Rico
Book Review| April 01 2005 Women, Identity, and Intellectual Life in Early Twentieth-Century Puerto Rico Women, Identity, and Intellectual Life in Early Twentieth-Century Puerto Rico, Magali Roy-Féquière. Faith Smith Faith Smith Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2005) 24 (3): 100–101. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501615 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permi…
How the English Became English
Book Review| September 01 2003 How the English Became English: Catherine Hall's Civilising Subjects Faith Smith Faith Smith Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Small Axe (2003) 7 (2): 159–167. https://doi.org/10.1215/-7-2-159 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Faith Smith; How the English Became English: Catherine Hall's Civilising Subjects. Small Axe 1 September 2003; 7 (2): 159–167. d…
“You Know You're West Indian if…”
Research Article| September 01 2001 “You Know You're West Indian if...”: Codes of Authenticity in Colin Channer's Waiting in Vain Faith Smith Faith Smith Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Small Axe (2001) 5 (2): 41–59. https://doi.org/10.1215/-5-2-41 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Faith Smith; “You Know You're West Indian if...”: Codes of Authenticity in Colin Channer's Waiting in…
You Know You're West Indian if
Research Article| September 01 2001 “You Know You're West Indian if...”: Codes of Authenticity in Colin Channer's Waiting in Vain Faith Smith Faith Smith Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Small Axe (2001) 5 (2): 41–59. https://doi.org/10.1215/-5-2-41 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Faith Smith; “You Know You're West Indian if...”: Codes of Authenticity in Colin Channer's Waiting in…
You Know You're West Indian if
Caribbean Creolization
Reviewed by: Caribbean Creolization: Reflections on the Cultural Dymanics of Language, Literature, and Identity* Faith Smith (bio) Caribbean Creolization: Reflections on the Cultural Dymanics of Language, Literature, and Identity. Ed. Kathleen Balutansky and Marie-Agnés Sourieau. The Press of the University of the West Indies and the University Press of Florida, 1998. Creole. Kreyol. The term is as likely to send people into postures of counter-h…
An Interview with Patricia Powell
Callaloo - Volume 19, Number 2, Spring 1996
A Conversation With V. Y. Mudimbe
SMITH: Recently there has been a lot of concern about the relationship between and literature. People in literary criticism have been complaining that it is being taken over by philosophers in a way that fails to do justice to the literary text. People in philosophy say that literary critics should stay out because they don't know what they are talking about. You are a philosopher who also writes what we would term fiction, or maybe some would ev…
Between Stephen Lloyd and Esteban Yo-eed
In their oft-cited manifesto, the Martinican Creolists exhort Caribbean people to forego their continuing allegiances to the "mythical shores" of various old worlds, and to affirm instead the "alluvial Creoleness" that binds (or that ought to bind) them to each other, and to other communities across the globe with a similar plantation history: "Neither Europeans, nor Africans, nor Asians, we proclaim ourselves Creoles; "[the Creole language] is t…
A Conversation With V. Y. Mudimbe
SMITH: Recently there has been a lot of concern about the relationship between and literature. People in literary criticism have been complaining that it is being taken over by philosophers in a way that fails to do justice to the literary text. People in philosophy say that literary critics should stay out because they don't know what they are talking about. You are a philosopher who also writes what we would term fiction, or maybe some would ev…
A Conversation With V. Y. Mudimbe
SMITH: Recently there has been a lot of concern about the relationship between and literature. People in literary criticism have been complaining that it is being taken over by philosophers in a way that fails to do justice to the literary text. People in philosophy say that literary critics should stay out because they don't know what they are talking about. You are a philosopher who also writes what we would term fiction, or maybe some would ev…
An Interview with Patricia Powell
Callaloo - Volume 19, Number 2, Spring 1996
Caribbean Creolization
Reviewed by: Caribbean Creolization: Reflections on the Cultural Dymanics of Language, Literature, and Identity* Faith Smith (bio) Caribbean Creolization: Reflections on the Cultural Dymanics of Language, Literature, and Identity. Ed. Kathleen Balutansky and Marie-Agnés Sourieau. The Press of the University of the West Indies and the University Press of Florida, 1998. Creole. Kreyol. The term is as likely to send people into postures of counter-h…
“You Know You're West Indian if…”
Research Article| September 01 2001 “You Know You're West Indian if...”: Codes of Authenticity in Colin Channer's Waiting in Vain Faith Smith Faith Smith Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Small Axe (2001) 5 (2): 41–59. https://doi.org/10.1215/-5-2-41 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Faith Smith; “You Know You're West Indian if...”: Codes of Authenticity in Colin Channer's Waiting in…
You Know You're West Indian if
Research Article| September 01 2001 “You Know You're West Indian if...”: Codes of Authenticity in Colin Channer's Waiting in Vain Faith Smith Faith Smith Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Small Axe (2001) 5 (2): 41–59. https://doi.org/10.1215/-5-2-41 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Faith Smith; “You Know You're West Indian if...”: Codes of Authenticity in Colin Channer's Waiting in…
You Know You're West Indian if
How the English Became English
Book Review| September 01 2003 How the English Became English: Catherine Hall's Civilising Subjects Faith Smith Faith Smith Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Small Axe (2003) 7 (2): 159–167. https://doi.org/10.1215/-7-2-159 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Faith Smith; How the English Became English: Catherine Hall's Civilising Subjects. Small Axe 1 September 2003; 7 (2): 159–167. d…
Women, Identity, and Intellectual Life in Early Twentieth-Century Puerto Rico
Book Review| April 01 2005 Women, Identity, and Intellectual Life in Early Twentieth-Century Puerto Rico Women, Identity, and Intellectual Life in Early Twentieth-Century Puerto Rico, Magali Roy-Féquière. Faith Smith Faith Smith Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2005) 24 (3): 100–101. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501615 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permi…
"Commentary on "Public Bodies
Crosses/Crossroads/Crossings
This essay discusses Jacqui Alexander's Pedagogies of Crossing as framing an analysis of the curtailment of erotic autonomy in the United States and the Caribbean, the failures of liberal feminism and academia, and the propensity for military intervention, with an examination of the possibilities offered by the sacred
"Commentary on "Public Bodies
Books
Caribbean Middlebrow: Leisure Culture and the Middle Class. By Belinda Edmondson. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2010. Pp. 223. ISBN 9780801448140. $45 (hbk). Belinda Edmondson's Caribbean Middl
"Only His Hat Is Left"? Resituating Not-Yet Narratives
This essay uses the three interlocutors' reflections to return to Creole Recitations, and to reconsider Thomas's nineteenth century as an arena for thinking about Caribbean male intellectuals' self-fashioning and desire, diaspora and degeneration, the sexual politics of creolization, and what it means to think of the period as merely preceding the anglophone Caribbean's important political and cultural developments
Between Stephen Lloyd and Esteban Yo-eed
In their oft-cited manifesto, the Martinican Creolists exhort Caribbean people to forego their continuing allegiances to the "mythical shores" of various old worlds, and to affirm instead the "alluvial Creoleness" that binds (or that ought to bind) them to each other, and to other communities across the globe with a similar plantation history: "Neither Europeans, nor Africans, nor Asians, we proclaim ourselves Creoles; "[the Creole language] is t…
Rupert Gray's Vulnerability … and Ours
This essay argues that the death of a fictional photographer in the 1907 novel Rupert Gray: A Tale in Black and White allays anxieties posed by photographic surveillance and “feminization.” Even if the novel's faith in the British Empire disqualifies it from being radical, its portrayal of the political fortunes of black male leadership in the Caribbean as potentially thwarted by female authority, ancestral shame, and the objectification of touri…
Good Enough for Booker T to Kiss
This article examines the raced and gendered investments of early twentieth-century Caribbean subjects in Booker T. Washington, who was perhaps the most powerful African American in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and the two educational institutions with which he was associated, the Tuskegee and Hampton Institutes
Brother Man's Asceticism
on 13 june 1951, front page of Jamaica's Daily Gleaner carried headlines about brutal murder of man on Kingston's Palisadoes Road, and stabbing and rape of his companion, who survived to describe their assailant as a bearded man. 'Rasta Man' Charged with Palisadoes Murder, blared front page on next day, 14 June, in an immediate association of bearded men, Rastafari, and criminality. Public outrage was reflected in furious letters to editor in day…
Pathologies of paradise
Supriya Nair’s new book ends by gesturing towards a future that, while uncertain, promises ‘a new script’ with a ‘fresh cast of actors, heroes, and villains’, but that is also certain to be guided
The Soundings with My Sisters
This essay uses the discussion of Neville Dawes's The Last Enchantment and Beverley Manley's The Manley Memoirs to interrogate intimate scripts of the independence moment and to suggest that these confound accounts of the era as either radical or conservative
Queer Livity in the Caribbean
This essay responds to Rosamond S. King's Island Bodies: Transgressive Sexualities in the Caribbean Imagination (2014) by noting the convergence of progressive legislation and violence that renders notions of transgression and freedom contradictory and fraught in our contemporary moment, thus helping to frame the book's relevance. Island Bodies draws attention to the sexed subject's embeddedness in notions of authenticity (within the Caribbean as…
Moments of Cooperation and Incorporation
Located by Victorianism
This essay on the “English-speaking Caribbean” reflects on pasts that have not passed but have instead been passed on, for example in gestures of erasure, silence, or genteel substitution, whether in the Victorian novel or the twenty-first-century novel that insistently returns to the past, or in the rhetoric of law and statecraft. In addition, I consider how Victorianism has reproduced itself in postcolonial Caribbean and British life, with cons…
Cultural Criticism and Its Generations
Maureen Warner-Lewis's extraordinary body of cultural criticism proposes a new temporal engagement with the place of the African continent in the Caribbean. Her work and career suggest some of the dispositions of the Mona Generation (UWI) of the mid-1960s to early 1970s. Read against some of the debates of the era, her work veers from an expected ideological path; or the path she takes, read as ideological in a particular way, shines an unexpecte…
Standpipes, Chimmeys , and Memorialization in the Caribbean
In this essay I read debates about amenities of water and waste in the British Caribbean in the late and immediate post-Victorian period through histories of intimacy and kinship centered in fiction by Caribbean writers of the last twenty years. In these novels and short stories, collecting water at a stream or a standpipe or emptying a chamber pot are actions that produce or recall moments of desire and aspiration, shame and punishment, in story…
In the Company of Radical Women Writers
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