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Journal Article
Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 34–56.
Published: 01 July 2019
...Joan Flores-Villalobos This essay explores the archival presence of West Indian women in the archives of the Isthmian Canal Commission, the biggest repository of original documents regarding the construction of the Panama Canal. Using a 1909 photograph of a nude black West Indian woman found...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 95–106.
Published: 01 July 2009
..., “Contesting the Boundaries of Gender, Race and Sexuality in Barbadian Plantation Society,” Women’s
History Review 12, no. 2 (2003): 198, 196.
9 Frieda Cassin, With Silent Tread: A West Indian Novel (St. John’s, Antigua: G. A. Uphill, ca. 1890); repr., with introduction by
Evelyn O’Callaghan...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 164–166.
Published: 01 July 2019
... migration of West Indian women during the Panama Canal construction and the diasporic linkages they created during this period. Her work has been supported by the Ford Foundation and the American Historical Association, among others. K aterina G onzalez S eligmann is an assistant professor...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 135–156.
Published: 01 March 2009
... generated these social, political, and cul-
tural networks that constituted an emerging West Indian com-
munity and provided the means by which women could share
domestic practices, aesthetic...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2007) 11 (3): 52–72.
Published: 01 October 2007
...-independence writers
by focusing on the search for identity from a feminist perspective. Caribbean women’s writ-
ing from the 1960s through the early 1980s continues the project of male nationalist writers
by participating in the revaluation of the West Indian folk and landscape...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2007) 11 (3): 130–138.
Published: 01 October 2007
... of the fiction of Jamaica
Kincaid, Michelle Cliff, Patricia Powell and others, see Evelyn O’Callaghan, “‘Compulsory Heterosexuality’ and
Textual/Sexual Alternatives in Selected Texts by West Indian Women Writers,” Caribbean Portraits: Essays on Gender
Ideologies and Identities...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2015) 19 (2 (47)): 29–55.
Published: 01 July 2015
..., Japan.’” 31 But it was a front-page, above-the-fold photo in the Globe and Mail in 1943 that truly spotlighted West Indians' devotion to their martial Mother Country. A teaser for a two-column story on the paper's women's page, the captioned picture illustrated a Canadian visit by servicewoman Mary...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 104–118.
Published: 01 November 2019
... at Ibadan, and another, Jonathan Udoeyop, who worked in the town of Ibadan. We also relied on help from two West Indian women, a Barbadian and Antiguan who were married to Nigerians. Best of all, so far as my research in African literature was concerned, I had full access to the university library which...
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The Operations of the Closet and the Discourse of Unspeakable Contents in Black Fauns and My Brother
Small Axe (2006) 10 (2): 1–18.
Published: 01 June 2006
..., particularly by its frank treatment of gender relations
and women’s sexuality.
3. Rosamond S. King, “Sex and Sexuality in the English Caribbean Novels—A Survey from 1950,” Journal of West
Indian Literature 11, no.1 (2002): 31–32.
small axe 20 • June 2006 • p 1–18 • ISSN 0799-0537
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Journal Article
Small Axe (2008) 12 (1): 57–76.
Published: 01 February 2008
... that after 1940, many male and some female writers “minimized the social
and intellectual contributions” of West Indian women.12
Sylvia Wynter was the only Anglophone Afro-Caribbean woman novelist to appropriate
the epic narrative of the nation. In the Introduction to Out...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2006) 10 (2): 261–268.
Published: 01 June 2006
..., and Identity: Migrations of the Subject, Carole Boyce Davies first
recognized that in the seemingly obvious fact that many West Indian women were writing
from elsewhere lay the very evidence for their constituting a new kind of diasporic “Carib-
bean” canon and literary formation.16...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2006) 10 (2): 269–275.
Published: 01 June 2006
..., and Identity: Migrations of the Subject, Carole Boyce Davies first
recognized that in the seemingly obvious fact that many West Indian women were writing
from elsewhere lay the very evidence for their constituting a new kind of diasporic “Carib-
bean” canon and literary formation.16...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2006) 10 (2): 276–286.
Published: 01 June 2006
..., and Identity: Migrations of the Subject, Carole Boyce Davies first
recognized that in the seemingly obvious fact that many West Indian women were writing
from elsewhere lay the very evidence for their constituting a new kind of diasporic “Carib-
bean” canon and literary formation.16...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2006) 10 (2): 287–289.
Published: 01 June 2006
..., and Identity: Migrations of the Subject, Carole Boyce Davies first
recognized that in the seemingly obvious fact that many West Indian women were writing
from elsewhere lay the very evidence for their constituting a new kind of diasporic “Carib-
bean” canon and literary formation.16...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 15–31.
Published: 01 November 2023
... and care labor” of West Indian women both subsidized the construction of the Panama Canal and enabled them to “skirt, and at times challenge, the legal, moral, and economic parameters imperial authorities sought to impose on this migrant workforce.” 12 While each of the above feminized forms of social...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (2 (38)): 43–59.
Published: 01 July 2012
...—are also realized in representations of hypersexualized, white, West Indian women. Ironically, the myth of native hypersexuality is molded into a lived reality. Such a construction relies on ideological violence and limiting paradigms that risk essentializing sexuality as a native practice. This is not my...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2002) 6 (2): 1–24.
Published: 01 September 2002
... in the writing, or the need for creolized reading strategies,
without directly connecting Caribbean women’s writing with the canonical theories of creolization. See Evelyn
O’Callaghan, Woman Version: eoretical Approaches to West Indian Fiction by Women (London/Basingstoke:
Macmillan Caribbean...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 72–86.
Published: 01 March 2014
..., particularly from elite male predation. Further, in parallel to “dishonorable” Spanish Caribbean working women, it is important to recognize—in addition to Putnam's virtuous peasant wives—the existence of “respectable” elite or middle-class British West Indian housewives for whom a male breadwinner ideal...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 24–45.
Published: 01 July 2022
... male fantasy of “coolie belles” was fabricated in urban West Indian studios that paid working-class Indo-Caribbean women to dress up as “nautch girls,” Hindu dancers viewed as seductive temptresses by Western travelers to India. The jewelry worn by rural Indian and dougla Caribbean women was far more...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (1): 38–56.
Published: 01 February 2008
... and women must capture and distill the mood of
the day and give to it an expression which is identifiably West Indian.” Ibid., 268, 269.
44. Marshall, “Legal Education For the West Indies,” 143, 144.
45. Marshall references an impressive list: “Burge, whose book on colonial law is an indispensable...
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