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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 124–144.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Gordon Rohlehr This essay, an extract from a longer two-hundred-page manuscript, traces the author’s literary friendship with Kamau Brathwaite from their first meeting in 1968 to Brathwaite’s passing in 2020. It relies on correspondence over fifty years, memories of meetings, and critical responses...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 102–107.
Published: 01 March 2022
... of Caribbean existence, from decolonization to our current conjuncture. 1 This introduction opens a series of tributes paying homage to Kamau Brathwaite by Lorna Goodison, Timothy Reiss, Gordon Rohlehr, and Elaine Savory. My own generational perspective, distant in birth from Kamau by almost half a century...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 63–72.
Published: 01 July 2024
...” that the great Guyanese critic Gordon Rohlehr described in his attempt to articulate a Caribbean aesthetic. 2 The timeline established by Rohlehr and Koser is useful in that it loosely marks the emergence of “diaspora” in Black critical thought in the wake of Pan-Africanism (say, from the 1950s...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (2 (38)): 99–107.
Published: 01 July 2012
...: National History and Arts Council, 1970); Derek Walcott, “The Muse of History,” in Orde Coombs, ed., Is Massa Day Dead? Black Moods in the Caribbean (New York: Anchor-Doubleday, 1974), 1–27. 6 Gordon Rohlehr, “History as Absurdity,” Tapia ; part 1: 29 November 1970, 4–7; part 2: 20 December 1970...
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Small Axe (2002) 6 (1): 59–76.
Published: 01 March 2002
.../Heinemann, 1986).
2 6 . L a m m i n g , e Pleasures of Exile, 23.
27. Ibid., 36–37.
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fi ction is its engagement with peasant/folk themes A ese comments on the West
Indian novel represent Lamming’s attempts to outline what Gordon Rohlehr sees as a
nascent theory about “the ‘folk...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): vii–x.
Published: 01 July 2021
..., “School? What can school teach them!” This was his essence, a lifelong dissident of conventional order, tilting at the windmill, “taking his licks,” as Gordon Rohlehr has beautifully put it, “and pressing on in his faith in the people.” 2 Lloyd Best was committed to the duty of criticism...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): vii–x.
Published: 01 July 2009
... Lovelace
Patricia Saunders Sidney Mintz
Faith Smith Rex Nettleford
Krista Thompson Sandra Pouchet Paquet
Elizabeth Walcott- Gordon Rohlehr
Hackshaw...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 51–62.
Published: 01 July 2024
... of marginalized vernacular cultural practices and identities. In this critical tradition, exemplified by figures such as Frantz Fanon, George Lamming, Kamau Brathwaite, Sylvia Wynter, and Gordon Rohlehr, inter alia, linguistic and sonic production resonates with historical, ontological, and epistemological...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 47–60.
Published: 01 March 2021
... Kamau Brathwaite, Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel Marcia Marquéz, and Gordon Rohlehr. I am not aware of a more remarkable collection of the nonfiction writing of the region. When we consider the lifework of each of its contributors, the anthology is a true marvel (see figs. 1 and 2 ). The essays...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (2 (35)): 174–185.
Published: 01 July 2011
... Gordon Rohlehr has argued that the admittedly sophomoric impulse to use
poetry to merely catalog one’s experience, against which Roach railed, is a necessary stage in
the emergence of any new literary tradition. In his essay “West Indian Poetry: Some Problems
of Assessment” he points out how strong...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 16–35.
Published: 01 July 2021
.... The Caribbean lives narrated in calypso lyrics become fully dimensional through inventive musical and vocal treatment. Gordon Rohlehr’s essay “Sparrow and the Language of Calypso,” first presented at the 7 April 1967 CAM public session in London, left a deep impression on attendees, given its advocacy...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 177–193.
Published: 01 November 2023
... More, “Walter Rodney’s Language for Black Liberation,” 39; Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa , 344. 58 Reflection by Gordon Rohlehr on Walter Rodney, Andaiye’s personal papers, n.d., n.p. 59 Getachew, “‘The Present as History,’” 52. 60 Natasha Shivji, “Universalism...
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Small Axe (2003) 7 (2): v–vi.
Published: 01 September 2003
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ADVISORY BOARD
Edward Baugh
Lloyd Best
Kamau Brathwaite
Erna Brodber
Rhonda Cobham
Locksley Edmondson
Norman Girvan
Stuart Hall
Robert Hill
George Lamming
Kari Levitt
Rupert Lewis
Earl Lovelace
Rex Nettleford
Gordon Rohlehr
Maureen Warner-Lewis
Michael Witter
Sylvia Wynter
THE SMALL AXE...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 75–85.
Published: 01 July 2023
...): 54–71. Besides Warner-Lewis’s work, analyses of The Arrivants or of Masks specifically include Mervyn Morris’s “This Broken Ground” and Gordon Rohlehr’s essays in Pathfinder : Mervyn Morris, “This Broken Ground: Edward Brathwaite’s Trilogy of Poems,” New World Quarterly , no. 23 (June–September...
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Small Axe (2005) 9 (1): 40–63.
Published: 01 March 2005
...).
10. Gordon Rohlehr, Calypso and Society in Pre-Independence Trinidad (Port of Spain, Trinidad: published by the
author, 1990), 39.
11. Ibid., 125.
12. By “social fi tness,” I refer to matters such as personal morality, good conduct, and, often, adherence...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 145–164.
Published: 01 March 2022
... Vodun, which, as Gordon Rohlehr says, seeks to preserve the psychic wholeness of the community. 34 But the culture depicted is corrupt and deadly to the spirit, where bayonets, “armoured eyes, clank of the gun-butts obscure the moon.” 35 A fetus will grow to have “eyes that will know//what greedy...
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Small Axe (2004) 8 (1 (15)): v–vii.
Published: 01 March 2004
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ADVISORY BOARD
Edward Baugh
Lloyd Best
Kamau Brathwaite
Erna Brodber
Rhonda Cobham
Locksley Edmondson
Norman Girvan
Stuart Hall
Robert Hill
George Lamming
Kari Levitt
Rupert Lewis
Earl Lovelace
Rex Nettleford
Gordon Rohlehr
Maureen Warner-Lewis
Michael Witter
Sylvia Wynter
THE SMALL AXE...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (2 (38)): 75–85.
Published: 01 July 2012
... to suffer from an inadequate and haphazard distribution even within the region. 11 The relative merits of metropolitan and local publication remain a concern for critics of Caribbean literature today, but what is significant to note here is that Baugh makes special mention of Gordon Rohlehr, “who has...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (1 (31)): 60–78.
Published: 01 March 2010
... for the formerly enslaved became especially dire, their
3 Wining is an undulating and writhing form of dance that is concentrated in the pelvic area.
4 See Gordon Rohlehr, Calypso and Society, 55; and Hope Munro Smith, “Performing Gender in the Trinidad Calypso,” Latin
American Music Review 25, no. 1...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 108–118.
Published: 01 July 2022
... of the twentieth century. 27 In Trinidad in the late 1960s and 1970s the Black Power movement railed against the leadership of Williams and the People’s National Movement party. As Gordon Rohlehr states, “The 1970 ‘revolution’ . . . signaled the presence of a gulf within Creole society that was as profound...
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