CQ Volume 63, No. 4 (December 2017)

CONTENTS

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Editor’s Note  /  443

 
ARTIST’S VOICE

•  A Dress to the Nation: here is not a happy place           /           445

            RICHARD MARK RAWLINS
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FEATURE ARTICLES
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•  Livity as a Dimension of Identity in Rastafari Thought:
   Implications for Development in Africana Societies  /  451
        
          LAWRENCE O. BAMIKOLE

• Caribbean Ethnobotany before Roumain: Eugène Nau’s Nineteenth-century  Contribution to an Understanding of the “Indian Flora of Haiti” / 467
         
           MICHAEL C. REYES

•  Who Is a Philosopher? Answers from Five Jamaican Poets  /  484
         
           ST HOPE EARL McKENZIE
   

• “This War Is Going to Teach Us Many Lessons”: Amy Bailey’s World War II Discourse / 502
          
           DALEA BEAN

•  Island Time: Disasters in the Comprehension of Montserrat’s Past  /  529
         
           JAMES ROBERTSON

•  “Till Now Was Never,” and Other Impossible Things /  551
        
            KEVIN ADONIS BROWNE

 
POEM

•  After the Hurricane   /           565

            THOMAS REITER

BOOK REVIEWS
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Marcia Douglas, The Marvellous Equations of the Dread:
A Novel in Bass Riddim /  567

            REVIEWED BY OPAL PALMER ADISA

John Hearne, John Hearne’s Short Fiction. Ed. & with Preface by, Shivaun Hearne. Introduction, Kim Robinson-Walcott. Foreword, Marlon James / 571

            REVIEWED BY F.S.J. LEDGISTER

Supriya M. Nair, ed. Teaching Anglophone Caribbean Literature /  574

            REVIEWED BY JAWHAR AHMED DHOUIB

 Margaret Jones, Public Health in Jamaica 1850–1940: Neglect, Philanthropy and Development / 578

            REVIEWED BY ONEIL HALL

 Notes on Contributors /  583

 Books for Review /  585

 Submission Guidelines /  589