'This was a Conradian world I was entering': Postcolonial river-journeys beyond the Black Atlantic in Caryl Phillips's work

Caryl Phillips has been accused of replicating the stereotyped view of a timeless, ahistorical Africa that Paul Gilroy puts forward in his paradigm of the Black Atlantic. Yet this article shows that Crossing the River and Phillips’s essays about Africa suggest ways in which Gilroy’s important paradigm of the black Atlantic could be broadened to become more inclusive of writing about Africa. Phillips draws inspiration from writers such as V S Naipaul, Chinua Achebe, and especially Joseph Conrad, to update the literary journey upriver and make it relevant to contemporary West African issues. A complex interplay of racial identities occurs when people from the African diaspora travel to Africa; this is a key preoccupation for Phillips when he rewrites Conrad. During the course of his river-journeys, Phillips meditates upon the complexities of being a black Westerner in Africa, examines the memory of slavery, colonialism and postcolonial unrest, problematises diasporan attempts to ‘return’ to Africa, and recognises the longstanding modernity of African countries

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Figures 6 – 10 In Description Of A New Species Of Uroballus Simon, 1902 (Araneae: Salticidae) From Malaysia, With The Longest Spinnerets Of Any Known Jumping Spider

FIGURES 6 – 10. Somatic characters (6 – 8) and copulatory organs (9 – 10) of Uroballus koponeni sp. n. (♀ holotype), body, dorsal view (6), ditto, lateral view (7), female chelicerae, ventral view (8), epigyne, ventral view (9), vulva, dorsal view (10). Scale bars: 6 – 7, 0.5 mm, 8 – 10, 0.1 mm

Figures 1 – 5 In Description Of A New Species Of Uroballus Simon, 1902 (Araneae: Salticidae) From Malaysia, With The Longest Spinnerets Of Any Known Jumping Spider

FIGURES 1 – 5. Somatic characters of Uroballus koponeni sp. n. (♀ holotype), body, dorsal view (1), ditto, lateral view (2), sternum, maxillae and carapace, ventral view (3), spinnerets, ventral view (4), ditto, dorsal view (5). Scale bars: 1 – 3, 0.5 mm, 4 – 5, 0.2 mm

Catalogue of the Hadfield collection of shells from the Lifu and Uvea, Loyalty Islands /

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Figures 7 – 12 In A New Species Of Alopecosa Simon, 1885 (Araneae, Lycosidae) From The Altai Mountains (South Siberia, Russia)

FIGURES 7 – 12. Median apophysis (7 – 8), embolar division (9) and internal female genitalia (10) and epigyne (11 – 12) of Alopecosa ayubaevorum sp. n.. 7 anteriorly; 8 – 9, 11 – 12 ventral; 10 dorsal. Scale bars: 0.2 mm. Abbreviations: Se synembolus; Te tip of embolus

Figures 1 – 6 In A New Species Of Alopecosa Simon, 1885 (Araneae, Lycosidae) From The Altai Mountains (South Siberia, Russia)

FIGURES 1 – 6. Male palp (1 – 2, 4 – 5) and habitus (3, 6) of Alopecosa ayubaevorum sp. n.. 1, 4 ventral; 2, 5 retrolateral; 3 male dorsal; 6 female dorsal. Scale bars: 1 – 2, 4 – 5 = 0.5 mm; 3, 6 = 5 mm. Abbreviation: Cn conductor

(Table 2) δ¹³C from the Lusklint section

The carbon isotope composition (d13C) of bulk organic matter and two palynomorph groups (scolecodonts and chitinozoans) from the Llandovery-Wenlock strata of Gotland (E Sweden) are compared to gain knowledge about carbon cycling in the Silurian (sub)tropical shelf environment. The d13C values of the palynomorphs are mostly lower than the d13C values of the bulk organic matter, and the d13C values of the benthic scolecodonts are lower than those of the planktonic chitinozoans. While the difference between bulk and palynomorph d13C may be in part a function of trophic state, the lower values of the scolecodonts relative to those of chitinozoans, which are assumed to live in the well-mixed water column, might imply an infaunal mode of life for the polychaetes that carried the scolecodonts. Lower d13C for the scolecodonts in the middle of the section may represent variations in primary marine productivity (supported by acritarch abundance data), oxidation of organic matter in the bottom waters, or genera effects. In general, however, trends between the three data sets are parallel, indicating similarities in the low frequency, environmentally forced controls. The d13C data show a decreasing trend from the base of the section, up to a horizon well below the base of the Upper Visby Formation. At this level, and therefore probably several 10 kyr before the d13C increase in the carbonates, the d13C organic values increase by ~1 per mil. This perhaps is an expression of a changed composition of the bulk organic matter associated with the extinction events prior to the Llandovery-Wenlock boundary