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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
... with, on the face of it, utterly incompatible modes of analysis, such as postcolonial theory, cultural studies and their shared emphasis on cultural politics” (227). What are the conceptual implications of this “Jamaican displacement”? I return to this at the end. Wright takes up two cases, the 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
... with the narrator at thirty, unwell and feeling “like nothing” (2), and moves further and further back into history, tracing the family background of “Nothing,” which the narrator is weaving into Nothing’s sisal mat. Eventually it reaches a central point of the Morant Bay rebellion of 1865, which is described...
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
... music memory slave song Matthew Lewis Morant Bay Like all plantations, Spring Garden Estate, in the parish of Westmoreland, Jamaica, was a site of production, alienation, and violence. The cane fields spread wide, hundreds upon hundreds of acres, flattening the landscape into a topography...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 219–221.
Published: 01 November 2017
... has published extensively 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...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 18–32.
Published: 01 July 2023
... to lead the funeral procession, a sequence that resembles the tradition of kumina that in interviews Brodber associates with indentured Afri-cans. 29 Immediately, the procession dance is disrupted by the draconian punishment following Morant Bay, whereupon Maud is gang-raped by a group of officers...
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
... on whiteness and the status of whites that were characteristic of brown subjectivity. In her diary entry of July 1965, Edna reflects on an encounter with a man at the Morant Bay courthouse who demanded that she give Paul Bogle back to them alive. 27 In the conversation, he pointed out the wrongs that were...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 254–262.
Published: 01 November 2023
... the Morant Bay Rebellion who pulled himself out of poverty, got a formal education, and became a school inspector. Murray and Stanford were but a generation apart. Stanford might even have known Murray’s kids, who followed in their father’s footsteps and performed Creole skits around the island. 1...
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
... of otie-eatie Cocoplum of Spondias dulcis red-fleshed orbs suspended from trees Syzgium 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...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 55–71.
Published: 01 March 2014
... the 1865 Morant Bay Rebellion in Jamaica a region in desperate need of imperial attention if it had any hope of survival. Haiti emerged frequently in his account but never with sympathy or judicious discussion. Instead, Haiti was the epitome of a degraded Caribbean that suffered without the guiding arm...
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
... Blog , 9 March 2017, petchary.wordpress.com/2017/03/09/why-i-wont-be-shaking-a-tambourine/ . 29 See David V. Trotman, “Women and Crime in Late Nineteenth Century Trinidad,” Caribbean Quarterly 30, nos. 3–4 (1984): 60–72. 30 On the Morant Bay Rebellion, see Clinton A. Hutton, Colour...
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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...
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