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Journal Article
Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 112–134.
Published: 01 March 2009
... 2009 “But Bogle Was a Bold Man”:
Vision, History, and Power
for a New Jamaica
Petrina Dacres
In 1965, in the month of October, the seaside town of Morant Bay in St. Thomas, the south-
eastern-most parish of Jamaica, became the site of national commemoration. In the late morn-
ing...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): vii–xiv.
Published: 01 March 2019
... of this “Jamaican displacement”? I return to this at the end. Wright takes up two cases, the Morant Bay rebellion of October 1865 and Rastafari—different but not necessarily unrelated cultural-historical formations. For the sake of space, I will concern myself only with his discussion of the former. Morant Bay...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2003) 7 (2): 137–149.
Published: 01 September 2003
... of Jamaican
Slave Society, 1787–1834 (Kingston: Th e Press, University of the West Indies, 1998); Gad Heuman, ‘Th e Killing
Time’: Th e Morant Bay Rebellion in Jamaica (London: Macmillan, 1994); Swithin Wilmot, “Baptist Missionaries
and Jamaican Politics 1838–54,” paper presented at the 12th...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 37–46.
Published: 01 November 2018
..., the end being the beginning. Was I really going to be lost in a recursion . . . ?” (39). Aunt Maud’s piece of the story illustrates how trauma can be a recursive condemnation within constructions of gendered identity as endlessly reproduced in fixed forms. In the violent aftermath of the Morant Bay...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2003) 7 (2): 159–167.
Published: 01 September 2003
..., instead of, as Belinda Edmondson has shown
us for fi gures such as George Lamming and Claude McKay, deeply infl ected by it.¹
In Civilising Subjects, we see how events in Morant Bay, Jamaica, in 1865 resonated
not just in the halls of London’s Colonial Offi ce or in the editorials that prominent...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 55–68.
Published: 01 March 2022
... Press, 2006), 184. 37 Gad J. Heuman, The “Killing Time”: The Morant Bay Rebellion in Jamaica (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1994), xii. The following short account relies on Heuman’s exhaustive study. 38 Ibid., 137. Sarah Winter, “On the Morant Bay Rebellion in Jamaica...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 219–221.
Published: 01 November 2017
... on the Haitian Revolution, the Morant Bay uprising, the culture and philosophy of enslaved Africans, Rastafari, Revival, Caribbean art and aesthetics, and Jamaican popular music. His latest book is Colour for Colour, Skin for Skin: Marching with the Ancestral Spirits into War Oh at Morant Bay (2015). He...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): vii–x.
Published: 01 July 2022
... to the present. But Reid’s achievement, Brodber suggests, was not just to link the Morant Bay Rebellion of 1865 to the inaugural Adult Suffrage constitution of 1944 but to do so by creating a vivid character, John Campbell, through whose eyes and sensibility and memory the embodied experience of that past...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 111–123.
Published: 01 November 2017
... of an emerging identification with the Afro-Jamaican majority and against the planters among such legislators. 44 George William Gordon's alliance with Paul Bogle in the 1860s embodied the possibility of a joint black and brown radical agenda. In 1965, one hundred years after the Morant Bay “war,” the two...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2003) 7 (2): 150–158.
Published: 01 September 2003
... this dynamic in an
essay about the role of the white woman in the Jamaican national imaginary as it reveals
itself in fi ctional retellings of the Morant Bay Rebellion.³ Nevertheless, I continue to be
confounded by its persistent vigor—its capacity to unify the contradictory positions...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 80–88.
Published: 01 July 2019
... malaccense (or—if you prefer, apple of Malay) the idiot proclaims, Oh, Tahiti! From Malay to Mandevelle & Morant Bay an isle of misnomers disorients Tahiti the myth of the flora heralds genocide even if he’d first landed at Tahiti. A Styrofoam plate of dutch pot pun’kin aloo...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 55–71.
Published: 01 March 2014
... of these was the British historian and Oxford professor J. A. Froude, whose 1888 book The English in the West Indies relied on unsystematic study and a preconceived bias. Froude, like many of his contemporaries, saw in the British Caribbean after the 1865 Morant Bay Rebellion in Jamaica a region in desperate need...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2003) 7 (2): 127–136.
Published: 01 September 2003
... in the sports and editorial pages of the Nation, “offi cial organ of
the People’s National Movement of Trinidad
I bring this up here in order to ask, fi rst, whether cricket and sports reporting
are proper sources for imperial history. My second purpose is to suggest that, to the
extent that Morant Bay...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 35–52.
Published: 01 July 2020
... (1984): 60–72. 30 On the Morant Bay Rebellion, see Clinton A. Hutton, Colour for Colour, Skin for Skin: Marching with the Ancestral Spirits into War Oh at Morant Bay (Kingston: Ian Randle, 2015), 2; on the Women’s Committee, see Rhoda Reddock, “Women Workers’ Struggles in the British Colonial...
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Journal Article
Small Axe (2006) 10 (1): 189–197.
Published: 01 February 2006
... of organized political opposition” in Jamaica, which includes the 1865
Morant Bay Rebellion (13–14). Similarly, Puri’s readings of hybrid poetics in Walcott’s
Pantomime and Khan’s The Jumbi Bird are elaborated in relation to the politics of a
contemporary tourist economy and Indo-Caribbean struggles...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2006) 10 (1): 198–205.
Published: 01 February 2006
... of organized political opposition” in Jamaica, which includes the 1865
Morant Bay Rebellion (13–14). Similarly, Puri’s readings of hybrid poetics in Walcott’s
Pantomime and Khan’s The Jumbi Bird are elaborated in relation to the politics of a
contemporary tourist economy and Indo-Caribbean struggles...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2006) 10 (1): 218–229.
Published: 01 February 2006
... of organized political opposition” in Jamaica, which includes the 1865
Morant Bay Rebellion (13–14). Similarly, Puri’s readings of hybrid poetics in Walcott’s
Pantomime and Khan’s The Jumbi Bird are elaborated in relation to the politics of a
contemporary tourist economy and Indo-Caribbean struggles...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2006) 10 (1): 230–232.
Published: 01 February 2006
... of organized political opposition” in Jamaica, which includes the 1865
Morant Bay Rebellion (13–14). Similarly, Puri’s readings of hybrid poetics in Walcott’s
Pantomime and Khan’s The Jumbi Bird are elaborated in relation to the politics of a
contemporary tourist economy and Indo-Caribbean struggles...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2004) 8 (2): 137–153.
Published: 01 September 2004
...).
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Gordon and Paul Bogle. In 1965 Paul Bogle and George William Gordon, recognized
leaders of the 1865 Morant Bay Rebellion, were instituted as national heroes. Th e com-
memoration of these two men was signifi cant because in the nineteenth century, the
British governor Eyre, who...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2002) 6 (1): 91–111.
Published: 01 March 2002
... sound of the drum echoing through dark space symbolized a
physical and spiritual threat of retribution within the dominant imaginary.⁶ Such fears
were vividly played on during the Morant Bay Revolt of 1865, led by the Reverend
Paul Bogle. Armed protestors chanted, “war, war...
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