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Published: 01 November 2017
Figure 10. The Jamaican government destroying Shanty Town, off Foreshore Road (renamed Marcus Garvey Drive), in 1966. © 1966 The Gleaner Co. (Media) Ltd.
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Published: 01 November 2017
Figure 11. One of the two tractors used in the operation to destroy Shanty Town got stuck in the swamp. © 1966 The Gleaner Co. (Media) Ltd.
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 167–178.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Figure 10. The Jamaican government destroying Shanty Town, off Foreshore Road (renamed Marcus Garvey Drive), in 1966. © 1966 The Gleaner Co. (Media) Ltd. ...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 16–35.
Published: 01 July 2021
...,” and “Shanty Town People” narrate casual violence from local hustlers and the uncontrollable noise of a vibrant, if sometimes dangerous, soundscape: “Fire and brimstone up in Laventille / . . . / They drinking, they cussing, they fighting / Beating pan, they beating and bup-bup!” 22 In a remarkable footnote...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (3): 174–185.
Published: 01 October 2006
... the disposability of each of these terms, slackness, and culture. Slackness and
culture as persistent themes are even deposed when necessary. Many performers discredit their
applicability as Lady Saw and Stacey demonstrate. As shanty town dwellers or the children of
shanty town dwellers, doubly negated...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 85–97.
Published: 01 November 2017
... on the outskirts of the city [of Kingston] developed during the period of rapid population growth which took place after 1953. … The oldest squatter settlements were at Trench Town and Back-O-Wall on the fringes of the tenements; with interruptions, squatters had been living in the latter area since the 1930s...
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Small Axe (2003) 7 (1): 46–71.
Published: 01 March 2003
...: e Rastafari Reader, ed. Nathaniel Samuel Murrell, William David Spen-
cer and Andrian Anthony McFarlane (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998), 286: Desmond Dekker’s
song “Ooo Shantytown,” from e Harder ey Come soundtrack, “memorial[izes]” the bulldozing of shanty-
towns, which...
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Small Axe (2003) 7 (2): 111–119.
Published: 01 September 2003
.... “Th ere used to be water here,” my mother
always said when she was alive, not half dead, as she is now (at least in my thoughts),
ssmallmall living in California with her fourth husband. Th ere are no cruise ships today, these
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fl oating cities come to this town from Monday...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (2 (35)): 174–185.
Published: 01 July 2011
... this cataloging impulse had been in Roach’s early
poems as well, citing lines from one of them:
And now
I drown in the groundswell of poverty
No love can quell. I am the shanty town
Banana, sugar cane and cotton man;
Economies are soldered with my sweat
Here...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 223–236.
Published: 01 July 2013
... the old river that led to the other side of town. On this side, drinking men spilled out from shanty bars with their nasty stale urine and rumsweat smells. Alleys dribbled off the main road, organic in their wildness. Between the derelict government housing, the grid-order of the town disappeared into sad...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 181–190.
Published: 01 March 2018
... obscure its cosmopolitan dependence on the history of recorded sound with an overcompensatory microrealism of urban blackness. And when Africa began to claim space via its own electronic scenes and sounds—from Lagos to Accra, and Luanda to Cape Town—it did so not via roots but by way of the digital...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 124–144.
Published: 01 March 2022
... there invited the I; and since I wish to go see D’s people in New Amsterdam & take some of her ashes to her mother’s grave, have I suggested to AJS that I would like to read in G/town . . . [,] a kind of thank you to Guyana for having produced and loaned me for a too short while ts special woman. 6...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (1 (40)): 7–21.
Published: 01 March 2013
... of idiocy. Society is a killer of liberty.” 45 These are not the words of a radical (or a) reformist. The personal tensions that determine the parameters of Claire's domestic existence are paralleled by the overtly political crisis that has befallen her town. The novel is set against the backdrop...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 117–146.
Published: 01 November 2023
... of the Third World and its large-scale shanty-town favela jobless archipelagoes. In this context, both states can also be linked to the state of the planetary environment and its litany of woes: toxic waste, the depletion of the ozone layer, global warming, problems of garbage disposal, technological pollution...
