![]() ![]() There are few tales about aging “saga boys.” Even rarer are stories about such men whose smiles and words make other men’s cheeks flame. The representation of this smooth-talking, sly-smiling, sexually potent, and sensual man whose sparkle and wit turns heads and flushes cheeks is usually youthful and strapping. The archetype of the Lothario-suave Caribbean man is by no means new in literature, or in popular culture, for that matter-for example, the young Jamaican man who reawakens passion in the lovelorn American woman in How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1996), the Dominican womanizer Yunior, in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007), or the Pan-Caribbean group of men going to dances to pick up “birds” in The Lonely Londoners (1956). ![]()
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