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The Radical Vision of Si-lan Chen: The Politics of Dance in an Age of Global Crisis

Elizabeth E. Sine
Small Axe (2016) 20 (2 (50)): 28–43.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-3626740
Published: 01 July 2016
... the interconnectivity of global popular emancipatory movements. © Small Axe, Inc. 2016 dance cultural politics radicalism transnationalism Sylvia Chen On the evening of 16 December 1940, radio host Mr. Minshall welcomed dancer Si-lan Chen to Port of Spain's airwaves. Chen was set to perform...
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The Resistance of the Lost Body

Nijah Cunningham
Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 113–128.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-3481402
Published: 01 March 2016
...Nijah Cunningham As the recent revival of Sylvia Wynter's scholarship has commanded the attention of a younger generation of scholars, the special section of Small Axe dedicated to her “forgotten” work provides an occasion to reconsider the prehistory to her theory of the human. Rather than simply...
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On the Idea of a Caribbean Cultural Studies

Aaron Kamugisha
Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 43–57.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2323310
Published: 01 July 2013
... the formation of cultural studies in Europe and North America. To this end, the author sketches a number of overlapping traditions of writing on culture in the Caribbean that take us from the late nineteenth century and considers the work of two Caribbean theorists, C. L. R. James and Sylvia Wynter...
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“Slackness Personified,” Historicized and Delegitimized

Sonjah Stanley Niaah
Small Axe (2006) 10 (3): 174–185.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-10-3-174
Published: 01 October 2006
... been influenced by Trinidad’s Calypso tradition. Topical humor and social commentary were popular themes, but the most popular tunes were “bawdy, suggestive songs.” See Kevin Chang and Wayne Chen, Reggae Routes: The Story of Jamaican Music (Kingston, Jamaica: Ian Randle Publishers, 1998) 14...
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Journal Work and the “Public Good”: Undocumented Academic Labor in Emerging Fields

Patricia Joan Saunders
Small Axe (2016) 20 (2 (50)): 58–75.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-3626776
Published: 01 July 2016
... Spivak, Homi Bhabha, and Paul Gilroy). In the meantime, journals such as Small Axe and, later, Anthurium began orienting the groundbreaking work of scholars such as Gordon Rohlehr, Sylvia Wynter, George Lamming, Janice Shineborne, and Willi Chen in relation to the new groundswell of interest...
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Bigger than the Sound: The Jamaican Chinese Infrastructures of Reggae

Tao Leigh Goffe
Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 97–127.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-8749806
Published: 01 November 2020
... with Wayne Chen, who was also very helpful in giving context to the Jamaican Chinese milieu. Many thanks to Justine Henzell, Patricia Chin, Randy Chin, Kecia Chin, Angela Chin, Chris Chin, and the rest of the Chin family whom I interviewed. For archival information, gratitude is due to Loraine Von Strolley...
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“To be Liberated from the Obscurity of Themselves”: An Interview with Rex Nettleford

David Scott
Small Axe (2006) 10 (2): 97–246.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-10-2-97
Published: 01 June 2006
... think it was Sylvia Wynter who enunciated this some time ago, that much of what has become Caribbean has been forged in the crucible of the African experience. Now this is extremely dif- ficult for people to accept in a world where Africa and things African are constantly denigrated. The Dark...
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