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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 89–98.
Published: 01 March 2017
... Caribbean art Caribbean performance black performance art black women artists Caribbean female body “You don't do it right,” Rosa said. The steups, the distinctive mouth movement and sound found in Trinidad, where her family is from, and throughout the Caribbean. When people suck their teeth...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 241–249.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Lisa Outar This essay offers a critical engagement with Rosamond S. King's Island Bodies: Transgressive Sexualities in the Caribbean Imagination (2014), arguing that King enacts a ground-shifting interdisciplinary and translinguistic approach to the study of Caribbean sexualities and gender...
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Small Axe (2002) 6 (2): 209–211.
Published: 01 September 2002
...
from scholars who share similar interests but have disparate agendas. It must have taken
some doing. 2 e result is a readable, interesting account of the Caribbean region as it
struggles to fi nd a path to economic development. 2 e work spotlights the black body
and especially the female black...
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Small Axe (2002) 6 (2): 212.
Published: 01 September 2002
... but have disparate agendas. It must have taken
some doing. 2 e result is a readable, interesting account of the Caribbean region as it
struggles to fi nd a path to economic development. 2 e work spotlights the black body
and especially the female black body as it is used to attract tourists...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 1–16.
Published: 01 November 2017
... the map of Caribbean literature and forcing critics to search for alternative discursive paradigms. 3 The novel repositions women and the female body in the discourse of history in ways that allow contemplation of the ambivalent image of women in contemporary Jamaica but does so by opening a window...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (2 (38)): 43–59.
Published: 01 July 2012
... constitution'd black female sexuality.’ ” 16 These complications of long-standing Caribbean paradigms suggest the importance of also moving beyond more recent tendencies to fixate on black female Caribbean bodies. After all, “privileging of the black, working-class woman, while being ‘politically correct...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (1 (31)): 1–15.
Published: 01 March 2010
... constraints and possibilities for the subject. Yet much of this contradictory
complexity is lost when we look for the representations of black female subjectivity within
Caribbean philosophical traditions. I am suggesting that this philosophical tradition mirrors
Afro-Caribbean women’s...
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Small Axe (2003) 7 (1): 1–16.
Published: 01 March 2003
...), came about. Consequently, there appear to be far more references to
brown women than to brown men in the literature of the nineteenth century. e values
accorded to black, brown, Asian, and white women’s bodies in Caribbean societies have
4. Read, for example, the following...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 250–259.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Rosamond S. King King responds to essays by noted scholars Faith Smith and Lisa Outar critiquing her 2014 book Island Bodies: Transgressive Sexualities in the Caribbean Imagination . In particular, she addresses the choice to examine interracial relationships between Caribbean men of color...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 233–240.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Faith Smith This essay responds to Rosamond S. King's Island Bodies: Transgressive Sexualities in the Caribbean Imagination (2014) by noting the convergence of progressive legislation and violence that renders notions of transgression and freedom contradictory and fraught in our contemporary moment...
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Small Axe (2004) 8 (2): 137–153.
Published: 01 September 2004
... gure had a subordinate position and was included only as a visual symbol of freedom.
Th e central slave fi gures were often females who were positioned kneeling in gratitude to
the paternalist image of the liberator
Postcolonial heroic monuments shifted the focus to the Caribbean subject...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 18–33.
Published: 01 November 2019
... of the racialized political violence that followed the 1997 and 2001 elections in Guyana, which primarily targeted people marked as Indo-Guyanese, Caribbean feminist scholar D. Alissa Trotz demonstrates how the gendered female body becomes the site upon which notions of bounded racial ascriptions are contested...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (2 (35)): 43–58.
Published: 01 July 2011
... of eroticism and orgasm.
After Legba’s death Ellen leaves for Boston, but Brenda’s search for youth, desire, and love
drive her to continue the Caribbean journey, as she has no husband or home anymore. We
know in the final scene that she will continue consuming young black men’s bodies on her
journey...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 34–42.
Published: 01 March 2017
... exhibition catalogue documented art from the Dutch-, English-, French-, and Spanish-speaking islands. This key meeting of art professionals included (mostly female) curators, art critics, and art historians, some of whom subsequently founded the International Association of Art Critics—Southern Caribbean...
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Small Axe (2003) 7 (1): 116–139.
Published: 01 March 2003
.... In this matter, the imperialism of the
white European order was recapitulated in the Caribbean male colonization of black
female subjectivity. Dominant narratives, therefore, both white and black, organized
the physical and political spaces of black women’s bodies and intellects, and eff ectively...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (2 (35)): 197–208.
Published: 01 July 2011
... and female writers simultaneously, in order to clarify how
the protocols of consecration in anglophone Caribbean literature are deeply gendered, while
Michelle Ann Stephens’s study of Caribbean male intellectuals in the United States and their
engagement with empire and transnationalism closes...
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Small Axe (2005) 9 (1): 17–39.
Published: 01 March 2005
... for the social structure of the Caribbean, one that is hopelessly perverse. Th e
impotent male body and the desirous female body are unable to connect or engage with
each other. In turn, the narrative positions this disconnection of heterosexual desires as
detrimental to community development, solidarity...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (3): 19–36.
Published: 01 October 2006
... through a multiplicity of genres that include poetry,
short stories, literary criticism, performance, and most recently, the novel. By focusing on
the dispossessed and marginalized Indo-Caribbean experience, Espinet’s work gives voice to
the outsider represented by female immigrants, widows, girls...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 51–62.
Published: 01 July 2024
..., and conceptually audacious, Noises , like Evelyn O’Callaghan’s Woman Version (also published in 1993), represented a feminist/womanist turn in anglophone Caribbean cultural criticism that derived theoretical and conceptual models from popular/vernacular cultural practices and discourses. 7 In nine chapters...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 72–86.
Published: 01 March 2014
..., yielding types and levels of female working-class militance absent from the latter until the 1930s, a differential that truly confounds Spanish and British Caribbean gender binaries. This is a synchronic comparison of different economic processes that were nonetheless pointing toward similar political...
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