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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 111–123.
Published: 01 March 2022
... ; and Elegguas and his unpublished third poetry trilogy, Missa Solemnis , Rwanda Poems , and Dead Man Witness , commemorating and trying to rise beyond what he called his “cultural lynching.” The essay looks at Brathwaite’s online/print Sycorax voice and the politico-philosophico-cultural concept of tidalectics...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (2 (35)): 1–6.
Published: 01 July 2011
... or sycorax video. She lyin across me now in the time. less. longer than me wh-
ere i am landless. the light even more & more brilliant. She rolling me over. hot
furnace face of her face in my face of papyrus. her eyes at last opening into
their own constellations of glorious. the hecatee...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 105–115.
Published: 01 November 2021
... on Brathwaite’s Sycorax video style also appears in that first issue of Anthur-ium . 16 In those early days, one of the expected advantages of digital publication over print was the ability to avoid the limitations of font and page sizes; thus, publishing Brathwaite’s strange Sycorax video style would...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 115–122.
Published: 01 November 2016
...), and more recently has published the even more massive Canibalia by Carlos Jáuregui (724 pages), affirming Havana's continuing commitment to the potency of the figure. 22 Elsewhere rewritings of the play continue to proliferate, most recently Esiaba Irobi's outrageously funny Sycorax , which takes...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (3 (36)): 101.
Published: 01 November 2011
.... and there was nvr no zone
in the colours of creole. so many tongues. so many various
lips. such light. That’s why you cd speak w/such pebbles
the room listening yr harbour . even tho there was never no future or faucet
Produced by Kamau Brathwaite in his Sycorax Video Style...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 108–122.
Published: 01 July 2013
... or ‘little tradition’ of the society.” 30 In an analysis of Jamaica's 1831 Baptist War Brathwaite identifies Caliban as “the black/slave rebel, trying, from cultural impulse, to return to align himself with his submerged/maroon ancestral heritage as represented by Sycorax , his mother.” 31...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 85–100.
Published: 01 March 2022
... of visual poetics in dialogue with Brathwaite’s Sycorax video style, Glissant’s poetics of Relation, Lorde’s refusal to accept silence and to resort to a language inherited from the colonizer, and Wynter’s historicity and philosophical critique and reconceptualization of humanism. 4 Philip’s critical...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 102–107.
Published: 01 March 2022
... in Barbados during that time we never met but spoke infrequently and exchanged e-mails. He was thrilled when I inaugurated the annual Kamau Brathwaite Lecture in Cultural Studies, writing me “Great Honour” in Sycorax style, and followed the progress of the series over the years. In 2015, when he won...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (2 (50)): 58–75.
Published: 01 July 2016
... sense, reproducing “Namsetoura & the Companion Stranger” was easily accomplished because, despite the countless variations of Brathwaite's Sycorax video style, the technology required was readily available through the use of Adobe Acrobat (*.pdf). Since the rest of the journal is produced in HTML...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 1–20.
Published: 01 July 2017
... of the peaceable Arawaks as they gave way to their nemeses, the Kalinago, whom they pictured with dog faces with “one eye in the forehead.” 1 By 1385, the Arawaks had been all but absorbed by the Kalinago, also known as “Caribs”; this misnomer would lend phantasmal attributions to Caliban, son of Sycorax...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): 149–159.
Published: 01 June 2008
... for political leadership, and the role of the diaspora as a utopian antidote, or
corrective measure, to homeland politics. One cannot help but bemusedly and musingly ask:
Which diaspora? Which homeland? Whose Caliban? And whence Sycorax? (Below, I more...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): 179–190.
Published: 01 June 2008
... antidote, or corrective measure,
to homeland politics.” She proceeds “bemusedly and musingly” to ask: “Which Diaspora?
Which homeland? Whose Caliban? And whence Sycorax?” Her referring to “the important
political, intellectual interventions made by scores, if not hundreds of writers...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 103–113.
Published: 01 March 2014
... enslaves Caliban, while Sycorax enslaved Ariel before her death) recedes to make room for a European family romance: Prospero reveals to Miranda her aristocratic lineage, a lineage that is cemented when she becomes engaged to marry Ferdinand. This romance stands in sharp contrast to the many antiromances...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (1): 1–15.
Published: 01 February 2008
... is produced by the synaesthesia of Brathwaite’s idiosyncratic poetic idiom, his sycoraxic
“writing in light” video style with its bold fonts, typographic distortions, and the calligraphic
and hieroglyphic effects that act as visual equivalents of the explosive boom blast of sound
systems, gun shots...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (1 (31)): 1–15.
Published: 01 March 2010
... (Kingston: Ian Randle Publishers, 1999); Patricia Mohammed, “But Most of All Mi Love Mi Browning: The
Emergence in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Jamaica of the Mulatto Woman as Desired,” Feminist Review 65, no.1
(June 2000): 22–48.
36 Abena Busia, “Silencing Sycorax...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 39–56.
Published: 01 March 2024
..., and earth and woman as archive. Kamau Brathwaite, in referring to Sycorax, the mother of Caliban in the Tempest , wrote, “She doesn’t appear in the play . . .. The woman is invisible . SHE IS A SUBMERGED MOTHER . . .. She represents the sub/maroon.” 54 Thus it is the earth that provides a space...
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Small Axe (2002) 6 (1): 59–76.
Published: 01 March 2002
..., especially intellectuals and
artists, to the vexed question of language and cultural identity. In recognizing the need
for the “language of the drums” as the expressive matrix of Caribbean nationalisms,
Lamming allows the voices of Caliban and Sycorax, and the “noises” of Prospero’s isle...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 1–16.
Published: 01 July 2019
.... 1 Edward [Kamau] Brathwaite, Contradictory Omens: Cultural Diversity and Integration in the Caribbean (Mona: Savacou, 1974), 38. 2 In a 1995 essay strikingly composed in his Sycorax video style, Brathwaite responded to postcolonial literary critics who had distorted his critique of Rhys’s...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 147–162.
Published: 01 November 2016
... and imperialism. The hybrid linguistic forms that arise in the Hispanic Caribbean diaspora hurl back a Calibanic curse at Prospero's books and at his servile instrument, Ariel, perhaps to recuperate the submerged knowledge of his dark-skinned mother, Sycorax. Finally, as a quintessential yet often ignored...
