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Against “Cultures of Hiatus”: History and the Archive in the Political Thought of John La Rose
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 39–54.
Published: 01 March 2018
...Chris Moffat This essay examines the relationship between a radical politics and the institution of the archive through a history of the George Padmore Institute (GPI), a community archive attached to New Beacon Books in London. Focusing on the life and thought of John La Rose (1927–2006...
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Play It Back a Next Way: Teaching Brodber Teaching Us
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (3 39): 59–71.
Published: 01 November 2012
... revolutionized the West Indian art of fiction as had Brodber.6 An anonymous reviewer in
1 I use the wording of a Barbadian student’s lament about reading Brodber as a subhead.
2 Erna Brodber, Myal (London: New Beacon, 1988), 1.
3 Erna Brodber, Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home...
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Me and My Head-Hurting Fiction
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (3 39): 119–125.
Published: 01 November 2012
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materials with which to view ourselves, I did not think this was enough. I felt that if the new
knowledge they were unearthing was to stimulate the change for which we all hoped, it had
1 na Brodber,Er Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home (London: New Beacon, 1980), 17; hereafter cited...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): vii–x.
Published: 01 March 2021
... fortune to meet with the remarkable John La Rose at his home in Finsbury Park, London, not far from the legendary New Beacon Books, but he was already unwell and, alas, he would pass away in February 2006 before I could arrange a more prolonged discussion. And so I do not know the story of CAM in exactly...
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The Promise of Caribbean Intellectual History
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 47–60.
Published: 01 March 2021
... the inaugural Carifesta, see Andrew Salkey, Georgetown Journal (London: New Beacon, 1972). For an interpretation of the somber, resigned faces on the back cover of this book, see David Scott, preface to Small Axe , no. 15 (March 2004): v–vii. 3 Brian Meeks, in conversation with the author, 20 August...
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Barrack Yard Politics: From C. L. R. James’s The Case for West-Indian Self Government to Minty Alley
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 13–27.
Published: 01 November 2018
... (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2002), 170. James’s approach here also resembles that of J. J. Thomas in Froudacity: West Indian Fables by James Anthony Froude (1889; repr., London: New Beacon, 1969), his response to Froude’s 1888 The English in the West Indies . 38 James Damian Cummings...
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Alternative Soundscape Paradigms from Kamau Brathwaite and the Mighty Sparrow
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 16–35.
Published: 01 July 2021
...: University of Minnesota Press, 2009), 3. 49 Ibid., 138 143. 50 Ibid., 109. 51 Kamau Brathwaite, Folk Culture of the Slaves in Jamaica (London: New Beacon, 1970), 10. 52 Brathwaite, Contradictory Omens , 64. 53 Carpentier, The Kingdom of This World , 28–29. 54...
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Beyond Geography, Past Time: Afrofuturism, The Rainmaker's Mistake , and Caribbean Studies
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 123–135.
Published: 01 July 2013
... thing”—provides the means of representing multiple dimensions of a Caribbean cosmology that is not merely cognizant of, but necessarily engaged with, other spaces in the black diaspora. 1 Erna Brodber, The Rainmaker's Mistake (London: New Beacon, 2007), 150; hereafter cited in text. 2...
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Not a Usual Man
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 108–110.
Published: 01 March 2022
... say that I knew him well, but I immediately take comfort in the fact that few people of my acquaintance seemed to have known him well. His dear friends and supporters from his days in England, John La Rose and Sarah White of New Beacon Books; Jessica Huntley of Bogle L’Ouverture; Anne Walmsley; and my...
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Caliban's Reason and the Folk: A Comment
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Small Axe (2002) 6 (1): 169–172.
Published: 01 March 2002
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Imagination Informed by his research on Jamaican Revivalism and Pentecostalism,
5. Erna Brodber, Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home (1980); Myal (1988); Louisana (1994). London: New
Beacon Books. Nalo Hopkinson, Brown Girl in the Ring (New York: Warner Books, 1998).
6...
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Recuperating the Value of Nothing in Erna Brodber’s Short Novel Nothing’s Mat
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 18–32.
Published: 01 July 2023
...: University of Virginia Press, 2013), 20. 9 Brodber, “Me and My Head-Hurting Fiction,” 119–20. Brodber quotes from her Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home (London: New Beacon, 1980), 46. 10 Brodber, Jane and Louisa , 52. June Roberts argues that the character allegorizes the Guyanese...
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Preface: Erna Brodber’s Social Ethics of Black Memory
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): vii–x.
Published: 01 July 2022
.... New York—Kingston March 2022 1 Erna Brodber, Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home (London: New Beacon, 1980), Abandonment of Children in Jamaica (Kingston: ISER, 1974), and Yards in the City of Kingston (Kingston: ISER, 1975). 2 Avishai Margalit, introduction to The Ethics...
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Widening Horizons
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 51–71.
Published: 01 July 2023
.... These perspectives have gained an audience not only through the work of university presses but also, significantly, by the blossoming of small independent presses in the 1970s and 1980s—outlets such as New Beacon Books, Karia Press, Karnak House, The Majority Press, and Ian Randle Publishers. The emergence...
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Linton Kwesi Johnson's Dub Poetry and the Political Aesthetics of Carnival in Britain
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (3): 54–69.
Published: 01 October 2006
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2. For details concerning LKJ’s involvement with CAM, see Anne Walmsley, The Caribbean Artists Movement,
1966–1972: A Literary and Cultural History (London: New Beacon, 1992).
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The Problem of the Hero(ine) in Caribbean History
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (1 (34)): 26–45.
Published: 01 March 2011
..., in Martinique, to whom Williams was paying the closest attention at the time, had begun as early as 1951 to use La Savane in Fort-deFrance as a space for public lectures. 13 Martin Carter, Poems of Succession (London: New Beacon, 1977), 85. 14 George Carrington, testimony to West India Royal Commission (1897...
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Reporting Back to Queen Isabella, Donette Francis, and Sandra Pouchet Paquet
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (2 (32)): 179–183.
Published: 01 July 2010
.... I like that, though I was not conscious of it at the time. But think-
ing about it later, I realize that both my mother and father taught me the importance of being
2 Lorna Goodison, I Am Becoming My Mother (London: New Beacon, 1995...
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Too Much History, or Not Enough
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (2 (38)): 86–98.
Published: 01 July 2012
..., Green, 1888); John Jacob Thomas, Froudacity: West Indian Fables by James Anthony Froude (1889; London: New Beacon, 1969); V. S. Naipaul, The Middle Passage: Impressions of Five Societies (London: André Deutsch, 1962), 20. 1 Edward Baugh, “The West Indian Writer and His Quarrel with History...
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“That Area of Experience That We Term the New World”: Introducing Sylvia Wynter's “Black Metamorphosis”
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 37–46.
Published: 01 March 2016
... Generation: From The Beacon to Savacou ,” in Michael Bucknor and Alison Donnell, eds., The Routledge Reader in Anglophone Caribbean Literature (New York: Routledge), 111–23. 2 The most accessible place to gain an appreciation of the ferment of that time at UWI Mona remains a series of interviews...
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Kamau Brathwaite, a Memoir: The Road to and from New York City
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 111–123.
Published: 01 March 2022
... Kamau Brathwaite, History of the Voice: The Development of Nation Language in Anglophone Caribbean Poetry (London: New Beacon, 1984). 11 Ibid., 21–22 (italics in original). 12 I reference Ngũgĩ’s Moving the Centre: The Struggle for Cultural Freedoms (London: James Currey, 1993...
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Redefining Mestizaje : How Trans-Caribbean Exchanges Solidified Black Consciousness in Cuba
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 91–108.
Published: 01 July 2021
... (Havana: Casa de las Américas, 2007); and Barquet, Ediciones El Puente . 31 See Andrew Salkey, Havana Journal (Baltimore: Penguin, 1971); and Anne Walmsley, The Caribbean Artists Movement, 1966–1972: A Literary and Cultural History (London: New Beacon, 1992), 136–38. 30 “Cuando viene...
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