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Communal Style: Indo-Caribbean Women's Jewelry

Joy Mahabir
Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 112–122.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-4156822
Published: 01 July 2017
...Joy Mahabir Styles of Indo-Caribbean jewelry created during indentureship have been continually reproduced up to the present. Exploring the demand and desire for these styles, this essay suggests that there is a communal aesthetic underlying the production of the jewelry, influenced...
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A Letter to My Great-Grandmother

Gabrielle Jamela Hosein
Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 232–243.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-6985947
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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Picturing an Afterlife of Indenture

Nalini Mohabir
Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 81–93.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-4156798
Published: 01 July 2017
...) taken in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries with the aim of advancing a notion of indentureship, at once larger and more circumscribed than Indo-Caribbean identity. This goal is underscored by three premises: visualization connects documentary sources to their imaginative coordinates; dynamics...
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Conjure Women and Coolie Women

Gaiutra Bahadur
Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 244–253.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-6985959
Published: 01 July 2018
... and Indo-Caribbean storytelling and claims the twin tropes of the violence of archive and the fictions of the archive, already elaborated in the historiography of slavery, for the context of indenture. I was, however, able to spend a few hours on Long Island talking with an elderly woman who had been...
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Kitchen Table Talk: Richard Fung and Ian Harnarine in Conversation

Andil Gosine
Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 123–134.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-4156834
Published: 01 July 2017
... by moderator Andil Gosine and others present at the workshop, including Ramabai Espinet and Patricia Mohammed. The conversation focused in particular on Fung's and Harnarine's films centering Indo-Caribbean cultural representation: Fung's 2012 feature-length documentary Dal Puri Diaspora , that traces...
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Kith and Kin: The Making of Queer Communities

Krystal Nandini Ghisyawan
Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 147–155.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-11382556
Published: 01 July 2024
... of female homosociality, cooperation, and desire, such as zami and mati , as well as sakhi , Indo-Caribbean traditions of ritual friendship, to help contextualize women’s passionate friendships. [email protected] © 2024 by Small Axe, Inc. 2024 female same-sex desire friendship...
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Engendering History: A Poetics of the Kala Pani in Ramabai Espinet's The Swinging Bridge

Brinda Mehta
Small Axe (2006) 10 (3): 19–36.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-10-3-19
Published: 01 October 2006
...Brinda Mehta Small Axe Incorporated 2006 Engendering History: A Poetics of the Kala Pani in Ramabai Espinet’s The Swinging Bridge Brinda Mehta Ramabai Espinet is a prominent Indo-Trinidadian author who has made critical contributions to the field of Indo-Caribbean literature...
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After Indenture

Andil Gosine
Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 63–67.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-4156774
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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Indigenous Sexualities: Rosamond S. King's Island Bodies and the Radical Politics of Scholarship

Lisa Outar
Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 241–249.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-3843998
Published: 01 March 2017
... reasons, not the least of which is its substantive inclusion of Indo-Caribbean perspectives, texts, music, and ritual, not as a token gesture or momentary mention but as incontrovertible parts of the Caribglobal landscape of sexuality she so assiduously examines. This is an approach that may seem obvious...
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“We Are Animal. So What?”

Rajiv Mohabir
Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 167–176.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-10795363
Published: 01 July 2023
... See Guyanese, Indo-Caribbean Drag Queen Sundari, the Indian Goddess (video), uploaded 8 September 2020, www.youtube.com/watch?v=2thB79o9rxI (accessed 20 April 2022). 15 Launda ke naach occurs as part of Bhojpuri-descended Hindu wedding ceremonies in Suriname and includes launda (meaning...
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Port of Departure, Port of Return: Mapping Indentured Returns to Calcutta

Nalini Mohabir
Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 108–122.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2739884
Published: 01 July 2014
... Birbalsingh, “Chhablall Ramcharan,” in From Pillar to Post: The Indo-Caribbean Diaspora (Toronto: TSAR, 1997), 69. 33 Mohabir and Simpson, “Resurgent (Rise Again),” 503. 32 Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism , trans. Joan Pinkham (1955; repr., New York: Monthly Review Press, 2000...
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Forging Relational Difference: Racial Gendered Violence and Dispossession in Guyana

Shanya Cordis
Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 18–33.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-7912298
Published: 01 November 2019
..., 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, challenged, and reproduced. 17 Though focused primarily on women racially...
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Life, Labor, and a Coolie Picturesque in Jamaica

Jenny Sharpe
Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 24–45.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-9901583
Published: 01 July 2022
... for their inferiority by both Indo- and Afro-Caribbeans, douglas were historically confined to a space of nonexistence. More recently, the label has been claimed as a source of pride and identity. There is little indication that the term was used in Jamaica, where the mixed-race population was more likely...
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“An Archive of Loose Leaves”: An Interview with Frank Birbalsingh

Nalini Mohabir, Ronald Cummings
Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 104–118.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-7912358
Published: 01 November 2019
... set of interviews with PPP politicians and intellectual commentators. 25 Birbalsingh writes book reviews regularly for Indo-Caribbean World , a Toronto-based community newspaper. FB: They had the usual Latin, French, and English. They taught Shakespeare. It was very conventional...
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Own People: Race, “Altered Solidarities,” and the Limits of Culture in Trinidad

J. Brent Crosson
Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 18–34.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2826434
Published: 01 November 2014
... Bridget Brereton, Race Relations in Colonial Trinidad, 1870–1900 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979), 110–29. 29 Khan, Callaloo Nation , 68. 30 Brereton, Race Relations , 188; see also 189. 31 For a detailed analysis of subaltern Afro- and Indo-Caribbean appropriation...
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Contributors

Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 209–211.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-4156942
Published: 01 July 2017
... on Indo-Caribbean Women's Literature (2012) and has published articles on Caribbean literature, calypso music, chutney music, and Indo-Caribbean women's jewelry. Her creative writing includes poetry and the novel Jouvert (2006). K elly S innapah M ary (whose work appears on the cover...
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Everything Slackens in a Wreck

Andil Gosine
Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 119–143.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-9901696
Published: 01 July 2022
... between the near-negligible presence of Indo-Caribbean people among the hundreds of shown works and the large Indo-Caribbean community that surrounded the museum. 2 The most common correction to the relative exclusion of Caribbean people of Asian descent from Caribbean art spheres has been to organize...
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Amortizing Memory: Debt as Mnemonic Device in Caribbean Canadian Literature

L. Camille van der Marel
Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 17–39.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-4271953
Published: 01 November 2017
... elision of women in the Indo-Caribbean diaspora by the Indo-Caribbean diaspora: “I read the official story of the family. There was a family tree at the very front with no mention of [cousin] Bess. And at the end of the final page was a three-sentence history of Gainder: Lily's mother was named...
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Preface: A Scarcely Spoken Past

David Scott
Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): vii–x.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-4156726
Published: 01 July 2017
... began to talk about doing something on the question of the Indo-Caribbean. He offered me the barely speakable word Coolitude —on the analogy of Negritude—a way of trying to capture the phenomenological experience of “Indianness,” especially in those subaltern Indian diasporas of the Caribbean, South...
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Gaiutra Bahadur’s Coolie Woman : Intimacies, Proximities, Relationalities

D. Alissa Trotz
Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 219–231.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-6985935
Published: 01 July 2018
... waiting for her son-in-law, the man who murdered her daughter, to be found. Resilience echoes in the work of the Jahajee Sisters in New York, an organization founded by Indo-Caribbean women in 2007 to tackle questions of gender-based oppression. 27 In a brief and remarkable discussion of the name...
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