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Behind the Orange Door
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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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The Archive and the Repertoire in Roshini Kempadoo's Ghosting
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 110–125.
Published: 01 March 2017
... to contemporary visual artwork is the perspective of Caribbean women artists. Through a discussion of Roshini Kempadoo's interactive installation Ghosting , the essay considers alternative forms of archiving lived memory through Diana Taylor's notion of the repertoire. It also considers modernist...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 34–42.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Annalee Davis; Joscelyn Gardner; Erica Moiah James; Jerry Philogene This special section focuses on the work of women whose artistic practices are grounded in a feminist ethos and engage multiple and nuanced meanings of the Caribbean and its diaspora across linguistic, geographic, material...
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Germaine, Evangeline, and Other “Negro Girls”: Rudy Burckhardt's Caribbean
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (1 (37)): 1–19.
Published: 01 March 2012
...Peter James Hudson This essay unearths and recovers the Caribbean films and photographs made by New York School artist Rudy Burckhardt in the 1930s and 1940s. It argues that Burckhardt's work, especially his 1937 experimental film Haiti , deserves to be considered as part of a Caribbean visual...
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Bodies of Horror in Marlon James's The Book of Night Women and Clovis Brown's Cartoons
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 1–16.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Curdella Forbes This examination of Marlon James's novel The Book of Night Women and a selection of Clovis Brown's newspaper cartoons posits these Jamaican-authored works as texts that instantiate a uniquely Caribbean aesthetics of horror in their response to historical and contemporary events...
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A Caribbean Coast Feeling: On Black Central American Women’s Landscape Portraiture
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 15–31.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Melanie White This essay explores the visual cultural production of three twentieth-century Black Caribbean Central American women painters: June Beer and Judith Kain, both from the Miskitu Coast, and Iris Abrahams, from San Andrés and Providencia. Specifically, it contextualizes these artists...
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Everything Slackens in a Wreck
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 119–143.
Published: 01 July 2022
... in the mainstream art world over the last few years are ones that most clearly signal their Indianness: Renluka Maharaj, whose practice gained currency following her turn to painting over images of indentured women, and Suchitra Mattai, an artist who was last in the Caribbean in 1976, when she was three years old...
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Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, the Quintessential Maroon: Toward an African Diasporic Epistemology
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 132–141.
Published: 01 March 2020
... expansionist interests in the region. The sequelae of slavery loomed in the region, limiting job opportunities for many and generating waves of migrants of African descent. Men and women crisscrossed the Caribbean from the islands to the mainland, to places such as Panamá, Costa Rica, and the United States. 3...
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Timed Out: Pathways and Pitfalls for Art History and Caribbean Studies
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (2 (47)): 185–196.
Published: 01 July 2015
... in modern and contemporary art of the Caribbean), it can hardly be deemed to have failed. It succeeds in accounting for how women, including Sutapa Biswas and Valerie Brown, have lent definition to the transatlantic elements of such Caribbean art stories; why artists such as Pauline Boty have been almost...
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Communal Style: Indo-Caribbean Women's Jewelry
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 112–122.
Published: 01 July 2017
... with Indo-Caribbean jewelry. © Small Axe, Inc. 2017 indentureship Vannetta Seecharran Inside the glass case at Rattan Jewellers, a store in south Trinidad, is an original silver churia , a wrist-to-elbow silver cuff worn by Indo-Caribbean women laborers during indentureship. It is extremely...
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S’habiller sexy en body string : The French Guianese “Bad Gyal” and the Image of French Caribbean Women
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (3 (75)): 32–48.
Published: 01 November 2024
... the image of women. To support this viewpoint, they highlight the contributions of modern Jamaican dancehall artists such as Spice, Ishawna, Gaza Slim, and Shenseea, who have over the years solidified their place in dancehall as Caribbean bad gyals. In sum, this commenter infers that perhaps...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (3): 167–170.
Published: 01 October 2007
.../Caribbean region of the Com-
monwealth Prize 2004, and her second, The Scorpion’s Claw was released in 2005. She is also
the author of two books of literary criticism, Framing Silence: Revolutionary Novels by Haitian
Women (1997); and Searching for Safe Spaces: Afro-Caribbean Women Writers in Exile...
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Caribbean Subjectivity and the Colonial Archive
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (1): 145–156.
Published: 01 February 2008
... protest against tourism’s demand for a picturesque and disciplined “native”
population. Additionally, she celebrates the provocative work of contemporary Caribbean
artists, who have worked to undo the coercive power of a still dominant visual regime of the
tropicalized picturesque...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 209–211.
Published: 01 July 2017
... and memories as women's visual narratives. Recent exhibitions of work and writing include Ghosts: Keith Piper and Roshini Kempadoo (2015) and Creole in the Archive: Imagery, Presence, and Location of the Caribbean Figure (2016). S harlene K han is a South African visual artist who uses masquerading...
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Bleeding, Wailing, and Hypnosis: The Words and Images of Caroline “booops” Sardine
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 16–34.
Published: 01 November 2013
...Jane Bryce In a context of educational, social, and financial marginalization of artistic practice in the anglophone Caribbean, the high degree of self-motivation and resilience required of artists is often manifest in their work. This essay profiles one such artist, the young Vincentian Caroline...
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Small Axe (2005) 9 (2): 205–208.
Published: 01 September 2005
... of Gisèle
Pineau’s Th e Drifting of Spiritss (1999). He is currently at work on a manuscript entitled
“Surrealism in the Francophone Caribbean.”
Maxence Denis is a Haitian director and video artist whose work plays on the contrasts
between the moving images of video...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 174–176.
Published: 01 November 2022
... of Puerto Rican Artists, Inc.). His photographs have been shown in galleries and museums throughout New York, including the Museo del Barrio and MOCADA: Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, and elsewhere, including the Caribbean Museum in St. Croix and the Museo de las Américas in San Juan...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 230–233.
Published: 01 March 2009
... Museum in Harlem, the
Bronx Museum of the Arts, and most recently at the Brooklyn Museum in the show “Infinite
Island: Contemporary Caribbean Art.” He has been the recipient of the Studio Museum in
Harlem Artist in Residence, Center for Photography at Woodstock Fellowship, the New York
Foundation...
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The Picturesque, Miss Nottage and the Caribbean Sublime
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (1): 157–168.
Published: 01 February 2008
... the colonialist underpinnings of the picturesque subject, to surveying artistic and cultural forays into the particular landscapes, likenesses, and states of consciousness in the modern Caribbean, this essay spawns a view which claims for the region an aesthetic and conceptual insurgency in representational...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 274–277.
Published: 01 July 2013
... anielle B oodoo -F ortuné is a poet and artist from Trinidad. Her writing has been featured in publications such as Bim , Anthurium , sx salon , Tongues of the Ocean , and Room Magazine . She was awarded the Charlotte and Isidor Paeiwonsky Prize for First Time Publication by the Caribbean Writer...
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