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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 75–85.
Published: 01 July 2023
...Faith Smith Maureen Warner-Lewis’s extraordinary body of cultural criticism proposes a new temporal engagement with the place of the African continent in the Caribbean. Her work and career suggest some of the dispositions of the Mona Generation (UWI) of the mid-1960s to early 1970s. Read against...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 73–78.
Published: 01 July 2024
... of being taught by Cooper in the mid- to late 1990s as a literature student at the University of the West Indies, Mona. These memories are lensed through a rereading of Cooper’s scholarship and also framed from the vantage point of the author being a university instructor now herself. Drawing from Cooper’s...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 72–74.
Published: 01 July 2023
..., Mona campus staff residences in the 1970s: a young woman with a young family and a husband who was also a scholar. Nurturing small children in a life of lecturing and research is a daunting enterprise. Maureen and her husband, Rupert Lewis, provided a remarkable example of how such a situation can...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 17–39.
Published: 01 November 2017
... Press, 2010), 9. 13 Ania Loomba, Colonialism/Postcolonialism (London: Routledge, 1998), 189. 12 Structurally, The Swinging Bridge has three main sections narrated by Mona. These are separated by three interludes that are written as third-person retellings of Gainder's life. The first...
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Small Axe (2003) 7 (2): 179–180.
Published: 01 September 2003
... Small Axe Incorporated 2003 CONTRIBUTORS
patrick bryan is the Douglas Hall Professor of History at the University of the West
Indies, Mona. Among his books are Th e Haitian Revolution and Its Eff ects (1979), Phi-
lanthropy and Social Welfare in Jamaica (1990) and Th e Jamaican People...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 48–62.
Published: 01 November 2017
... between women, with Dr. Kendal as the desired outcome; his personhood is also brought into question: whom he can marry and who marries him. While Mona wins this round with Mrs. Hanson, in that Dr. Kendal marries her, their marriage lasts only two years, and the text discloses that it fails based on his...
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Small Axe (2004) 8 (2): 228–231.
Published: 01 September 2004
...., Atlanta, New York City, and Martha’s Vineyard.
carolyn cooper teaches Caribbean, African, and African American literature at the
University of the West Indies, Mona, where she also coordinates the Reggae Studies
Unit. She is the author of Noises in the Blood: Orality, Gender and the “Vulgar” Body...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 51–71.
Published: 01 July 2023
... made to me by Professor Robert Le Page—who had headed the English department at UWI Mona several years previously—that I study instead the formation and structures of the Caribbean Creole languages. 2 This, he felt, would help in the teaching of English in West Indian schools. I suspect that Creary...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (3): 205–207.
Published: 01 October 2006
... in English at Duke University.
His work has recently appeared in the Caribbean Review of Books and Indiana Review.
Carolyn Cooper is professor of literary and cultural studies at the University of the West
Indies, Mona, where she teaches Caribbean, African, and African-American Literature. She...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 53–64.
Published: 01 November 2020
... farm work, Cuba’s call “was free”: “You pay you passage and go.” 18 And go many did, on boats from Kingston Harbour to Santiago. “Cuba was very bright,” a woman from Heywood Hall, St. Mary, remembered. 19 But while it may indeed have been “bright,” Mr. B from Mona remembered that it was also...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (2 (32)): 184–186.
Published: 01 July 2010
...), coauthor of Jamaican Art (1990),
and editor of Fifty Years—Fifty Artists (2000). Her new exhibition and publication titled Rasta!
is forthcoming.
Tanya Batson-Savage is an MPhil candidate at the University of the West Indies, Mona. Her
career has spanned the gamut of teaching, journalism...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (3): 1–15.
Published: 01 October 2007
... in Jamaica,” Socialism 4, no. 2 (1977), quoted in The George Beckford
Papers, selected and introduced by Kari Levitt (Mona: Canoe Press, University of the West Indies, 2000), lxiii.
small axe 24 • October 2007 • p 1–15 • ISSN 0799-0537
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social discontent...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 219–221.
Published: 01 November 2017
... for years at the University of the West Indies, Mona, and subsequently at New York University. He is the author most recently of the collections Strange Fruit (2016) and The Lazarus Poems (2017). In 1994, he received the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, and in 2015 he was awarded the Poetry...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 86–97.
Published: 01 July 2023
... undergraduate English honors class at the University of the West Indies, Mona. Our 1970s cohort was among the first to benefit from a new course in West Indian literature, which the Department of English Studies spearheaded under the leadership of Edward Baugh, the first Caribbean scholar to be appointed...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (2 (38)): 228–230.
Published: 01 July 2012
..., Meridians , and PALARA . She is the author of Humor in the Caribbean Literary Canon (2012). © 2012 by Small Axe, Inc. 2012 E dward B augh is professor emeritus of English, University of the West Indies, Mona. He served at various times as head of department. Between 1989 and 1992, he...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (3): 19–36.
Published: 01 October 2006
... and historical agency of Indo-Caribbean women in a compelling narrative that
moves the reader back and forth between India, Trinidad, Toronto, and Montreal. The novel
is narrated by Mona Singh, a scholarship-winning student at the University of Montreal and
researcher for Films Canadiana...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 37–46.
Published: 01 March 2016
.... Photograph by Oswald Jones. Used with permission In 1971, after meeting at a conference at the Mona campus of the University of the West Indies (UWI), the Jamaican cultural theorist, playwright, and novelist Sylvia Wynter wrote African American historian Vincent Harding of her intention to write...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (2 (50)): 175–186.
Published: 01 July 2016
... occasional essays on Caribbean politics and theory by Brian Meeks, a leading intellectual from the region, is a welcome event. These essays represent Meeks's attempt to carry the torch handed over by his forebears at the Mona campus of the University of the West Indies. 16 Organized into three major...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 124–137.
Published: 01 November 2017
... might say about the moral state of the colony as a whole. Proposing “rudeness” in the public domain on South Camp Road, she is the uncouth version of Mona Freeman, who attracts people to party meetings with a sexual and sentimental appeal: “She made the same speech every night and it had nothing...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 202–204.
Published: 01 July 2014
... © Small Axe, Inc. 2014 K amau B rathwaite is a distinguished historian, poet, and literary-cultural critic. After a long career teaching in the Department of History at the University of the West Indies, Mona, and subsequently the Department of Comparative Literature at New York...
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