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Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 94–111.
Published: 01 July 2017
...Jordache A. Ellapen This essay focuses on South African artist Sharlene Khan's 2016 multimedia project When the Moon Waxes Red in order to examine political culture in postapartheid South Africa. At the heart of Khan's project is the Indian indentureship experience. The author argues...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 24–45.
Published: 01 July 2022
... workers that photographs create is informed by even as it reinforces a colonial order of racial segregation. By identifying the photographic traces of Indians’ indentureship, this essay introduces time and motion into still photography that reduces Indian lives to single ethnographic instances. It also...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 80–88.
Published: 01 July 2019
...Suzanne C. Persard This series of poems operates somewhere between the Bronx, Half Way Tree (Kingston), and memory. Indian indentureship in Jamaica is epistemologically eclipsed; queer death is unmemorialized; an opening of sugar packets evokes the violence of empire. These poems reckon with loss...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 164–166.
Published: 01 July 2019
... in the Bronx, New York, is a queer scholar, essayist, and poet with Indo-Caribbean roots from Kingston, Jamaica. Her poem “Elegy: 1838,” a series of haikus on Indian indentureship, was featured as part of a profile in 2014 by the Smithson-ian. Currently she is a doctoral student in women’s, gender...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 81–93.
Published: 01 July 2017
... of suffering. 3 Thus, indentureship is virtually inseparable from an Indo-Caribbean identity. 4 The impact of indentureship on the Indian community in the Caribbean outlasted its nearly eighty years' existence as a system of labor (1838–1917). Unlike other Caribbean communities descended from...
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Barrack Yard Politics: From C. L. R. James’s The Case for West-Indian Self Government to Minty Alley
Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 13–27.
Published: 01 November 2018
... Indian indentureship, and Indian emigration more generally. He joined the Legislative Council of Trinidad as an unofficial member in 1912. 33 Fitzpatrick’s election to the legislature was a response to Indians’ calls for representation in British and colonial Trinidad government. But as James...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 174–176.
Published: 01 March 2023
... the historical archive and cultural productions on Indian indentureship to offer a connected history of race and caste and its significance for colonial capitalism after emancipation in the Caribbean. S hanna J ean -B aptiste is assistant professor in the Department of French at Rutgers University–New...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 219–231.
Published: 01 July 2018
...) Copyright © 2018 by Small Axe, Inc. 2018 Gaiutra Bahadur Indian indentureship gender violence guyana In the middle of Georgetown, Guyana’s capital city, sits a monument garden established in 1988 to commemorate 150 years of Indian arrival. A second monument, located in Berbice...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 63–67.
Published: 01 July 2017
... for greater contention with its traumatic legacy. © Small Axe, Inc. 2017 visual art indentureship Indo-Caribbean This year marks the centenary anniversary of the end of the British indentureship program that brought Indians and others to the Caribbean, Fiji, and Mauritius, starting in the mid...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 108–122.
Published: 01 July 2014
... “tormented chronology” of both ambivalent departures— and returns —of indentured Indian laborers. 16 Indentureship was shaped not only by leave-taking; written into indenture contracts was the promise of return on completion of the period of bounded labor (authorized by the “Certificate of Exemption from...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 112–122.
Published: 01 July 2017
... viewed the jewelry as “uncivilized.” 13 Brereton's observation references the anti-immigration sentiments that surfaced in Trinidadian newspapers during indentureship, when a rising postemancipation middle class protested the arrival of indentured Indians with arguments that historian Gerad Tikasingh...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 1–18.
Published: 01 March 2023
... demands of the West Indian plantocracy.” 12 The colonial narrative about the Indian masses whose lives could be bettered through indentureship thus effectively elided the anxiety of the plantocracy over diminishing returns on investments in the Caribbean, the network of capitalists who had a stake...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 232–243.
Published: 01 July 2018
... history to the impact of an indentured past on women today. As a graduate student just beginning to ask questions about how to be an Indian woman in the Caribbean, I first read Patricia Mohammed’s study of the negotiation of gender relations in the last decades of indentureship, the time when you grew...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 119–143.
Published: 01 July 2022
... the history of indentureship, Cale d’Étoile . 3 For Torabully, the subsequent experience of Indian workers revealed their sea voyage as a place of destruction and creation of identity, a concept he termed “coolitude,” after Aimé Césaire’s négritude . East and South Asian migration to the Caribbean...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 18–33.
Published: 01 November 2019
... populations—those descendants displaced from their own indigenous lands and brought to new ones through colonialism, slavery, and indentureship. 8 Here, we can begin to see how gendered dispossession is integral to the construction of the racialized categories of blackness, Indianness, and Amerindianness...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 181–191.
Published: 01 March 2009
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lot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History (Boston: Beacon, 1995); Marcel Pinas’s installation, “G.L.O. School te
Pelgrimkondre” (2005); and Rhoda Reddock, “The Indentureship Experience: Indian Women in Trinidad and Tobago, 1845–1917,”
in Shobita...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 57–71.
Published: 01 July 2009
... the outsider in the region. Focusing primarily on Indians, the essay explores the tropes of the “home and the world” in which “otherness” emerges as metaphors in the fictional works of Rabindranath Tagore's The Home and the World which resonates in V.S. Naipaul's A House for Mr. Biswas . The `Other...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 194–196.
Published: 01 November 2019
... University in Ontario, Canada. His work has been published in the Journal of West Indian Literature, the Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Small Axe, and Transforming Anthropology. His research focuses on the SX60 [ 11.2019 ] 195 field of critical Maroon studies. Along with Nalini Mohabir, he is working...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 209–211.
Published: 01 July 2017
...); and in Stabroek News (Guyana), New Indian Express (India), and the Guardian (UK). P atricia M ohammed is a professor of gender and cultural studies in and the chair of the School for Graduate Studies and Research at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine. Her academic publications include...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 75–85.
Published: 01 July 2023
... the kind of questioning of received assumptions that these six scholars’ work has advanced. Rereading and humanizing “African presences in and contributions to West Indian history, identity, languages and intellectual life,” Warner-Lewis and others “invent another kind of narrative from which identities...
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