Celebrating with the Dead This essay seeks to explore the celebration of the dead, with the dead, as a collaborative way of mourning, drawing from the experience of celebrating the fifth anniversary of my grandfather’sdeath with my Japanese-Brazilian family. I will argue that this approach challenges the modern Western perspective onmourning. I draw on the… Continue reading 37.1 | Julia Ferry
Category: 37.1 Get Lit: A Celebration Issue
37.1 | Carmijn Gerritsen
(Re)Imagining Black Britishness: Identity Politics, Belonging and Celebration in A Portable Paradise and Assembly Multicultural identities are integral to defining notions of ‘new Britishness,’ yet are rarely acknowledged in the British cultural narrative. This article demonstrates how Roger Robinson’s A Portable Paradise (2019) and Natasha Brown’s Assembly (2021) represent Black Britishness by employing counter-hegemonic images.… Continue reading 37.1 | Carmijn Gerritsen
37.1 | Dewi Kopp
Celebrating Curaçaoan Creoleness in Buladó In 2020, the film Buladó made history by winning the prestigiousGouden Kalf award, becoming the first movie spoken in Papiamentu to do so. Set in Curaçao, the narrative delves into the island’s creolized society through its characters’ struggles with identity. Drawing from “In Praise of Creoleness” by Bernabé et al.,… Continue reading 37.1 | Dewi Kopp
37.1 | Andries Hiskes
This Is Only Delay: The Celebratory Epideictic and the Act-Like in Mary Szybist’s Annunciations This article close reads two of Mary Szybist’s poems that engage with the scene of the biblical annunciation, and complicate the conventional celebratory perception of that event. It analyzes how Szybist’s poems leverage the performative aspect of lyric poetry to challenge… Continue reading 37.1 | Andries Hiskes
37.1 | Foreword
Nienke Veenstra and Isolde Kors In the foreword to this issue, editors-in-chief Nienke Veenstra and Isolde Kors discuss celebration, and introduce the articles making up this issue.