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Small Axe (2003) 7 (1): 1–16.
Published: 01 March 2003
...Belinda Edmondson Small Axe Incorporated 2003 Public Spectacles: Caribbean Women
and the Politics of Public Performance
Belinda Edmondson
e race rises as its women rise. ey are the true standard of its elevation. We are trying to produce
cultured men without asking...
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Published: 01 July 2024
Figure 2 The Great Bernadine, Royal Cobo of the Caribbean, performed by Natalie Wood, 2024. Photograph by Nila Gupta
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 89–98.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Gabrielle Civil; Rosamond S. King What does it mean to embody the Caribbean as performance/art? In this coolaborative essay, two Caribbean women artists respond to this question in a dynamic dialogue of text and images. Each has individually performed at and been exhibited in more than fifty venues...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 237–245.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Tim Watson This essay is a response to Belinda Edmondson’s Creole Noise: Early Caribbean Dialect Literature and Performance (2022), which is an excellent history of literary and performative Creole in the anglophone Caribbean, tracing its roots back to the work songs of enslaved African laborers...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 167–178.
Published: 01 July 2024
...Figure 2 The Great Bernadine, Royal Cobo of the Caribbean, performed by Natalie Wood, 2024. Photograph by Nila Gupta ...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (1 (31)): 228–230.
Published: 01 March 2010
... doctorate in the Depart-
ment of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies at Duke University, Durham, where she focuses
on African diasporic art, with an emphasis on Caribbean performance traditions. Her disserta-
tionTrinidad is titled Carnival.” “Carnival Is Woman!: Gender, Performance, and Visual Culture...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (2 (47)): 78–84.
Published: 01 July 2015
...Maja Horn This essay is a personal reflection on how Horn's scholarship on gender, sexuality, and performance in the hispanophone Caribbean has been shaped by the oeuvre of the late critical theorist José E. Muñoz. In particular, Horn compares and contrasts the uses of “hybridity” and “performance...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 250–259.
Published: 01 March 2017
... to Caribbean sexuality and nonbinary gender are addressed. King ends by introducing her current research project, which uses existing and imagined archives to examine Afro-Trinidadian women's protest and performance in the late nineteenth century. © Small Axe, Inc. 2017 Caribbean gender Caribbean...
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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 (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 226–236.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Supriya M. Nair This essay discusses Belinda Edmondson’s Creole Noise: Early Caribbean Dialect Literature and Performance (2022). The author shows how Edmondson challenges Standard English dismissals of anglophone Caribbean vernaculars as an inferior form of English and reorients the historical...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 46–59.
Published: 01 July 2022
.... The essay offers some possibilities for greater nuance in accounts of sexual subjectivity in Cuba and the Caribbean and locates the stakes of these discussions in broader transnational LGBT rights discourses. [email protected] © 2022 by Small Axe, Inc. 2022 drag performance transgender...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 134–146.
Published: 01 November 2021
... epistemological status as the Garifuna homeland associated with ancestral marronage. The author looks at how public performances of Garifuna Settlement Day in Central America and the United States (New York City is home to the largest Garifuna communities outside Central America’s Caribbean coasts) open...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 79–89.
Published: 01 July 2024
... this convergence in historical continuity with the resistive potential of swag as manifested in Caribbean expressive performative traditions, including Jamaica’s Junkanoo . The same subversive style ties together the Junkanoo reveler captured by Isaac Belisario and Carolyn Cooper’s verbal wit and sartorial...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 232–243.
Published: 01 July 2018
...Gabrielle Jamela Hosein This commentary on Gaiutra Bahadur’s Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture contextualizes its themes and contribution through engagement with its creative nonfiction form. It places the text within the intellectual trajectory of Indo-Caribbean feminist historiography...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (2 (32)): 83–96.
Published: 01 July 2010
...Jane Bryce When St. Lucian-descended Black British artist Isaac Julien presented his avant-garde triple-screen video work Paradise Omeros at a Festival of African and Caribbean Film in Barbados, a member of the audience commended him on the work but regretted it was not being shown to the “real...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 167–176.
Published: 01 July 2023
... the animality and animacy of the drag performance in diaspora and its interaction with queer Caribbean performance spaces as I read the queer internationalism and queer colonialism referred to in Gosine’s work. Where is the space of the gender wrecking in this jahajee cultural practice of launda ke naach...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (3): 16–33.
Published: 01 October 2007
... of transportation
and communciation, media discourses, and cultural performances of travel within recent regimes
of neoliberal governance and regulation are contributing to new ways of developing, curating
and staging neocolonial fantasies of the untouched Caribbean paradise.
Introduction...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (2 (35)): 96–116.
Published: 01 July 2011
...Cheryl Finley Since the early 1990s, the contemporary visual culture of slavery has been defined increasingly by installation, performance, and time-based media. This is particularly so for visual artists who chronicle Caribbean catastrophic history using the slave ship as a key iconic signifier...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 254–262.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Belinda Edmondson In response to three discussions of the author’s Creole Noise: Early Caribbean Dialect Literature and Performance (2022), this essay raises questions about the meaning of authenticity in the production of literary Creole in the anglophone Caribbean from the eighteenth century...
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Small Axe (2003) 7 (1): 172–176.
Published: 01 March 2003
... and fi lm,
creative writing, and performance studies. She has published articles on Caribbean lit-
erature and popular culture and is currently editing a collection of essays on Caribbean
performance poetry and music in the Canadian and US context.
is a poet and short story writer teaching...
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