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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 246–253.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Barbara Lalla This essay reviews Belinda Edmondson’s literary yet cross-disciplinary study Creole Noise: Early Caribbean Dialect Literature and Performance (2022), which questions the Blackness of orality versus the Whiteness of narrative in the growth of Caribbean literature. Caribbean language...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 11–21.
Published: 01 March 2020
... offers potential critical tools to investigate the region’s linguistic variability. However, European-focused scholarship prioritizes a national focus that cannot account for the complex relationships between colonial languages and Caribbean Creoles. This essay considers three works from the Dominican...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 226–236.
Published: 01 November 2023
... in the anglophone context. The lively, well-written book reveals how multiple constituencies have contributed culturally to the unique Caribbean language variants that refashioned the English language and enriched global literature. [email protected] Edmondson Belinda , Creole Noise: Early Caribbean...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 237–245.
Published: 01 November 2023
..., to the transcriptions and parodies of White Caribbean elites, and to the increasing use in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries of Creole by Brown and Black Caribbean writers and performers. Slowly, the language shifted from being a marker of cultural inferiority to a medium for signaling cultural authenticity...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 254–262.
Published: 01 November 2023
.... It was a startling sensation for me to realize that I actually liked reading the writing of so many racists. In the self-regarding declarations of Mathews I hear the stirrings of a Caribbean language. In the vicious anti-Black ventriloquizings of the White Creole letter writers who mockingly called themselves...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 90–106.
Published: 01 November 2014
... which literary expression negotiates between the primary languages of the region. In reading for the translative, writing that works between vernaculars or Creoles and dominant European languages, we can identify a distinctly Caribbean mode of expression. In this essay, translative analyses of Derek...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 103–114.
Published: 01 July 2024
... the diminution of the “many.” She locates the culture of the African Jamaican majority at the very center of national consciousness. [email protected] © 2024 by Small Axe, Inc. 2024 Caribbean Creole languages Seventh-Day Adventist theology and practice reggae and dancehall culture Louise...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 51–71.
Published: 01 July 2023
... made to me by Professor Robert Le Page—who had headed the English department at UWI Mona several years previously—that I study instead the formation and structures of the Caribbean Creole languages. 2 This, he felt, would help in the teaching of English in West Indian schools. I suspect that Creary...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 52–63.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Nadève Ménard French is usually referred to as an elite language in the context of Haiti. By contrast, Haitian Creole is acknowledged as the language of the people. In this essay, Nadève Ménard argues that it is crucial to move beyond this simplistic paradigm. While the Caribbean is generally...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 86–97.
Published: 01 July 2023
... boosted research into the African underpinnings of Caribbean Creole languages, facilitating a more holistic understanding of how people of African descent in the New World used language to shape their identities. Deployed in tandem, these developments now could silence the claims that Africa had...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 180–198.
Published: 01 March 2017
..., through its integration of polyvalent rhythms and musical forms, along with the Creole language itself, zouk can be said to embody the concrete articulation of Caribbean creole cultural identity through performance. Through the work of such well-known artists as Franky Vincent, Tanya St-Val, the late...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 17–34.
Published: 01 July 2020
..., Born Translated One of the features that makes Caribbean literature unique is its heterolingualism. The presence of several European languages in the Caribbean basin and the different social status enjoyed by the creole languages present in the region have emerged as important areas of study...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 113–124.
Published: 01 November 2013
... multicultural France, while still valuing local difference. French remains the hegemonic language and the norm, even though the authors deform French through the impact of Creole. This certainly reflects the linguistic and social reality of the French Caribbean's diglossic societies, but the creole elements...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (2 (35)): 186–196.
Published: 01 July 2011
...Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo Apart from the fact that it is one of very few book-length studies of a Caribbean-based British Caribbean black intellectual from the nineteenth century, and one of even fewer written by a literary studies scholar, Faith L. Smith's Creole Recitations stands out because...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (2 (35)): 164–173.
Published: 01 July 2011
...Leah Rosenberg Faith Smith's Creole Recitations offers a feminist critique and compelling alternative to the dominant narratives of Trinidadian and black nationalism. Smith's analysis of Thomas's participation in the anglophone Caribbean public sphere of the late nineteenth century makes visible...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 147–162.
Published: 01 November 2015
... a corpus of Caribbean writing whose authors adopt what she calls “complicated curations between Creoles and standardized European languages”—a development that suggests an intensification of Akai's observation that “West Indian writing is translation.” Literature that emerges from such a poetics...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 199–210.
Published: 01 March 2017
..., 1988), 15, 17. One critic, taken by Clavot's idea, suggested, “It now remains for the historians of Caribbean art to abandon their insularity and establish the formal bases of a Creole visual aesthetic.” Pierre E. Bocquet, “The Visual Arts and Créolité ,” in Gerardo Mosquera, ed., Beyond...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 137–146.
Published: 01 March 2018
... antillais , the 1981 text whose politics and aesthetics of anticolonial antillanité helped give birth to the Éloge ’s reflections on creoleness. Indeed, it is doubly appropriate in the context of this essay on the créolistes ’ relationship to anthropology and Caribbean literary history (in particular...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 85–88.
Published: 01 November 2013
... of “the Caribbean”—its languages, its aesthetics, its structures—throughout the Americas and beyond. Two contributors consider translation in the context of a single author. In “From Aesthetics to Allegory: Raphaël Confiant, the Creole Novel, and Interdisciplinary Translation,” Justin Izzo asks how writers...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (2 (35)): 174–185.
Published: 01 July 2011
... nationalist positions on
Caribbean culture. Their studies allow us to read reciprocally Roach’s and Thomas’s atti-
tudes to language and art. In Creole Recitations, Smith devotes an entire chapter to teasing
out Thomas’s attitude toward language. Starting with Thomas’s comments on the rhetorical...
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