..., to the variegated festivals of a postslavery postindenture society of Trinidad is re-presented in the symbolic and allegorical pieces that Nanan has produced for over two decades. These evoke messages of harmony despite difference and of political agency for a nation. Her symbolism establishes an Indian aesthetic...

... from the Indo-Trinidadian community about how Afro-Trinidadians domi- nate the contest. As if to underscore the competition between Afro- and Indo-Trinida- dians over such national symbols, Indo-Trinidadians, in the 1999 Miss Universe contest held in Trinidad, were accused of being unpatriotic...

... of propriety and retaliated against her dehumanizing position in society was referred to as the jamette. Although the jamette is no longer a symbol of disorder and licentiousness in Trinidad, her impact on the corporeal expression of the contemporary woman in Carnival is unmistakable. When jamettes...

... Biblical city that Jacob anoints and names in Genesis—before being taken to live with her uncle and his common-law wife in Barataria, Trinidad, at the age of nine. 25 Lewis wrote her first calypso in 1955, at the age of fifteen, and began her professional career in Trinidad’s capital, Port of Spain...

... and exilic identity within a tradition of postcolonial writing in North America and Trinidad to establish an important feminist poetics of literary and cultural representation in Caribbean literature. Espinet’s debut novel, The Swinging Bridge, consolidates these preoccupations with the political...

... metaphysical dilemmas of identity and belonging that remain unresolved. Small Axe Inc. 2009 The Asian Other in the Caribbean Patricia Mohammed Introduction Central and South Trinidad have traditionally had a concentration of Indians. This was a direct result of the pattern of village creation...

..., and hazardous working conditions on plantations that replicated those of slavery.” 8 Additionally, the Figure 1. “Trinidad: A Wealthy Coolie Merchants Miss,” postcard, ca. 1900–1910, photographer unknown. Michael Goldberg Postcard Collection, Alma Jordan Library, University of the West Indies, St...

...), 2009. Digital prints, 121.3 × 80.6 cm each; reproduced in Wrestling with the Image: Caribbean Interventions, 2011, exhibition catalogue, 56–57. © Marlon Griffith Figure 2. Kodak wallet, given to author, Port of Spain, Trinidad, 2004. Figure 2. Kodak wallet, given to author, Port of Spain...

.../07990537-1334158 © Small Axe, Inc. 35 • July 2011 • Rhonda Cobham  |  175 nineteenth-century colonial Trinidad, whose population, she reminds us, was barely over one hundred thousand souls (1). Smith points out that when Thomas explicates...

... anthropology, see Daniel Miller, Modernity: An Ethnographic Approach: Dualism and Mass Consumption in Trinidad (Oxford: Berg, 1994), 259–64. Small Axe 14, September 2003: pp. 23–38 ISSN 0799-0537 I submit that in recent years Caribbean cultural studies has emphasized and cel...

... and the Shouters Prohibition Ordinance in Trinidad and Tobago. Adherents of these latter religions mobilised arguments in favour of religious freedom to campaign for the repeal of the Ordinances, while similar arguments proved harder to make for obeah. `Obeah Acts' argues that this is because the colonial...

... and bridges disciplinary divisions between them. Smith demonstrates that already in the 1870s, black Trinidadian identity and nationalism was constructed in relation to Indian identity and that this divisive construction continues to shape contemporary contestations over power and identity in Trinidad...

... Creole Recitations: John Jacob Thomas and Colonial Formation in the Late Nineteenth-Century Caribbean,1 and to do so in response to the generous reflections of three scholars whose beautifully textured studies—of Trinidad, of Jamaica, and of the impact of the Haitian Revolution on African-American...

... offering of courses in Anglo-Saxon studies represented unwillingness or sluggishness when it came to reform, it is possible that the resources for analyzing orality in a course on Anglo-Saxon poetry were crucial to someone who was trying to appreciate a cultural environment in Trinidad in which there were...

... architecture our purpose is critical clarity, we may wish to consider it not purely through the tired perspective history or style habitually used but as a dynamic component of Caribbean culture, an operation mediated and influenced by the individual, the local, and the global. Cascade, Trinidad, 2010. All...

.... And, closer than Mecca to me here at my computer, weren’t you too named Aisha? There were large acts of insubordination and self-definition in the histories of indentured Indian women who came to Trinidad as independently waged workers, who unapologetically left men who did not satisfy them, who...

... rejects the commemoration practices of indentureship that are most dominant, symbolized most powerfully by Indian Arrival Day, which is celebrated in both Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago as a public holiday and commemorated elsewhere. This notion of “arrival” as the primary framing of the Indian-descended...

... Sources: <httpwww.ksc.nasa.gov/history/apollo/apollo-11/apollo-11.html>An Independence Souvenir and Publication,Our Flag and Other [Trinidad:National Emblems: Government of Trinidad and Tobago, 1962]. Fig. 1. Clockwise from left: Astronaut Neil...

...Jocelyne Guilbault Small Axe Incorporated 2005 Audible Entanglements: Nation and Diasporas in Trinidad’s Calypso Music Scene Jocelyne Guilbault n 1963 the Mighty Sparrow was crowned calypso king when he performed the song “Kennedy.” In newly independent Trinidad...

... the “real.” Awai's project writ large could be seen as an effort to capture this process of perception itself in a material form, imaging the subject's perception of the real as a viscous, tactile, oozing relationality that moves back and forth between viewer and world. Born in Trinidad and educated...