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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 215–225.
Published: 01 November 2023
... in Jamaica. The essay demonstrates how contestations around national identity are articulated in a repressive language of moral authority. Speakers of “good” (English) and “bad” (Jamaican) language varieties become embattled in a struggle for the control of public terrain. The essay concludes...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 90–102.
Published: 01 July 2024
... between scholarship and autobiography, between Patwa (Jamaican/ Jumiekan ) and English. Cooper’s legacy in championing the native tongue of Jamaica—not as bad English or noise but as a capacious language for both academic discourse and creative work—is to offer multiple ways to sound authentically...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 103–114.
Published: 01 July 2024
... the diminution of the “many.” She locates the culture of the African Jamaican majority at the very center of national consciousness. [email protected] © 2024 by Small Axe, Inc. 2024 Caribbean Creole languages Seventh-Day Adventist theology and practice reggae and dancehall culture Louise...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 73–78.
Published: 01 July 2024
... Oral History: Sistren Theatre Collective’s Lionheart Gal ,” in Noises , 87–95. 7 Indeed, one of the claims Carolyn makes for Jamaican language is its embodied largesse, over and against the clipped form of written text: “Oral discourse leaves the tongue open to slackness; writing trims...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 51–62.
Published: 01 July 2024
... Axe, Inc. 2024 border clash vulgar body noise oral/scribal discourse transgressive language Jamaican Patwa reggae dancehall nation Carolyn Joy Cooper, professor emerita of literary and cultural studies in the Department of Literatures in English at the University of the West...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 237–245.
Published: 01 November 2023
... Caribbean writer feels the claim of Creole. “In Flux,” the first story in Escoffery’s collection If I Survive You , begins with a scene of the Miami-born protagonist Trelawny’s early shame over his parents’ Jamaican language (“Why’s your mother talk so funny?”) and his affirmation of linguistic...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 63–84.
Published: 01 November 2013
... difficulty with its Jamaican language and descriptions. Though these overwhelmingly sanguine evaluations, as well as their varied racial/national identifications of characters, might reflect a range of interpretations (e.g., African American as a synonym for black ) or inattention to textual details, when...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2006) 10 (3): 150–160.
Published: 01 October 2006
... of mainstream pop commercial success rarely experienced
by any Jamaican dancehall artist. Daddy Yankee’s reggaeton 2005 Barrio Fino album (featur-
ing the urban hit “Gasolina”) has gone platinum in the US (having sold more than 1 million
copies) despite its Spanish language emphasis.3 This unlikely...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2006) 10 (3): 193–204.
Published: 01 October 2006
... for evaluating the valid-
ity of any interpretation. Oftentimes, non-Jamaican listeners—or, more precisely, listeners
who do not fully understand the Jamaican language—do not even hear the lyrics accurately
let alone interpret them coherently. Many German listeners thought Bob Marley’s line “no
woman...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2006) 10 (1): 59–73.
Published: 01 February 2006
...), is one of a small number of codes created to serve the specifi c
ends of a particular group. Other such codes, however, have not spread beyond the
narrow confi nes of their constituencies. Today the language of Rastafari has spread not
only beyond that group to the wider Jamaican society but also...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 246–253.
Published: 01 November 2023
... in researching Jamaican language history and afterward in my own forays into historical fiction. 6 Edmondson reports the view that “to speak Creole—at least as one’s principal language—is a sign of inferiority, but to transcribe Creole is a sign of erudition” (22; italics in original). I found too...
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Small Axe (2003) 7 (1): 17–45.
Published: 01 March 2003
..., was an impor-
tant but (contrary to the prevailing view) secondary fi gure in the young Jamaican’s
life. Jekyll, a wealthy, highly educated and eccentric Cambridge graduate, was fond of
the Jamaican peasantry and its culture and encouraged McKay to write his poetry in
the local Creole language He...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 134–149.
Published: 01 March 2019
... For the influence of the Jamaican 1970s on black Britain, we need to also look at the fascinating manifestation of language in the cultural evolution of black Britain. Mid-1970s Britain and Jamaica saw the emergence of a new group of poets who unashamedly embraced patwa as a foundational aspect of their poetry...
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Journal Article
Small Axe (2004) 8 (2): 100–118.
Published: 01 September 2004
... vocabulary rich in symbolism from the island but is no longer in the native patois.
Th eir language is a more universal one.”
Works of six artists³² in the exhibition explored gender issues raised in the poem
“Jamaica Oman” by Jamaican writer Louise Bennett Th e poem was written in Jamai-
can...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 128–135.
Published: 01 July 2023
... confined to them. I would argue that the Haitian language has come to properly “own” the terminology of marronage, quite possibly along with other Black Atlantic languages of the wider Caribbean region, including perhaps the Jamaican language and certainly the multiple Maroon languages of South America...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 89–105.
Published: 01 March 2024
... was about fourteen, consciously and deliberately choosing to speak in the Jamaican language at home, breaking with the middle-class version of the language that was used and expected both in my family and at JC, and for me this was a way to hold on to the language and to defy the boundary-marking, boundary...
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Small Axe (2002) 6 (2): 25–48.
Published: 01 September 2002
... of the language of the British imperialists. Bryan, , e Jamaican People, 258.
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Garveyism, which in its recognition of the signifi cance of racism as a factor retarding
black social, economic, and political progress presented a more radical challenge to hege-
monic ideas regarding progress, consolidated...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 124–137.
Published: 01 November 2017
... nodal point of the linguistic or performative spectrum they occupied was bound to be held against them as being inauthentic, or as somehow essentially defining them. Bennett, the quintessential champion of Jamaican language, trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. These performing intellectuals...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 149–160.
Published: 01 March 2014
... Strategies in Hollywood Fiction (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), 20–21. 5 Trevor Millett, The Chinese in Trinidad (Port of Spain: Inprint Caribbean, 1993), ix. 4 Ibid., 461. 3 Velma Pollard, “Language and the Downpressed: The Rasta Man in Jamaican Creative Writing...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (2 (32)): 42–55.
Published: 01 July 2010
... of language, the taxi driver can create a bond with the Jamaican
audience. Unlike most of the similar representations, this taxi driver returns twice and most
markedly at the end of the film. As Martin leaves the airport, the camera focuses beyond him
and the taxi driver pulls up in a Porsche, which had...
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