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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): vii–x.
Published: 01 July 2018
...David Scott Copyright © 2018 by Small Axe, Inc. 2018 I never met Peter Abrahams. It is one of my many regrets. He was a household name, though, when I was growing up in Kingston. I can vividly remember his slow, rasping voice on Radio Jamaica every evening, giving his views on some...
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Peter Abrahams’s Island Fictions for Freedom
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 84–101.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Victoria J. Collis-Buthelezi; Aaron Kamugisha When South African–born Peter Abrahams moved to Jamaica in 1956, he thought he had found a racial paradise. Over the next six decades as a Jamaican, his understanding of race in Jamaica was complicated after independence. His last two novels...
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Óleos y pasaportes: Second Place, Poetry
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 189–198.
Published: 01 July 2018
...Abraham Fidel Ortiz Lugo Copyright © 2018 by Small Axe, Inc. 2018 En eso estamos de acuerdo. En que se burlen del camello y nos miren con desdén por nuestra cojera, que guarden sus fideos en el portafolio cuando se trata de invitarme a ver el mar desde un barco hundido en el fondo...
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Iris Abrahams, title unknown, 1992. Oil on canvas. Photograph courtesy of C...
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in A Caribbean Coast Feeling: On Black Central American Women’s Landscape Portraiture
> Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 November 2023
Figure 3 Iris Abrahams, title unknown, 1992. Oil on canvas. Photograph courtesy of Connie Abrahams, San Andrés
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A Caribbean Coast Feeling: On Black Central American Women’s Landscape Portraiture
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 15–31.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Figure 3 Iris Abrahams, title unknown, 1992. Oil on canvas. Photograph courtesy of Connie Abrahams, San Andrés ...
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Maureen Warner-Lewis’s Work as African Recognition
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 98–108.
Published: 01 July 2023
... finally got to meet Warner-Lewis it was over the Internet during the hard lock-downs of COVID. Sitting at a desk in South Africa, I waited for Rupert Lewis to join a Zoom meeting. He had kindly agreed to speak to me about Peter Abrahams, a Black South African writer who decided to settle in Jamaica...
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Pares & Nones (Evens & Odds): In visible Equality
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (3): 83–92.
Published: 01 October 2007
..., Olivier Flambert, Miguel Gómez, Fonso Khouri, Abraham Khouri, Roxane
Ledan, Daniel Morel, Darìo Oleaga, Marc Steed, and Roberto Stephenson, seek to demonstrate
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the disparate unity of both...
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Dancing in an Enclosure: Activism and Mourning in the Puerto Rican Summer of 2019
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 1–23.
Published: 01 July 2022
... Abraham and Maria Torok, The Wolfman’s Magic Word: A Cryptonomy , trans. Nicholas Rand (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1986). 47 See Nishant Kishore et al., “Mortality in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria,” New England Journal of Medicine , no. 379 (12 July 2018): 162–70. 48...
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Caribbean Literary Historiography and the Jamaican Literary 1950s
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 164–180.
Published: 01 November 2020
... critiqued the lack of local publishing houses, arts funding, literary community, and vibrant literary public in Jamaica. 10 And yet by 1962, in the introduction to The Independence Anthology of Jamaican Literature , Peter Abrahams would write, “Jamaican literature has evolved and grown and achieved much...
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Shake Keane's “Nonsense”: An Alternative Approach to Caribbean Folk Culture
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Small Axe (2003) 7 (2): 71–92.
Published: 01 September 2003
... Man-of-Words in the West Indies, Roger Abrahams made a detailed study of
what he calls “alternative forms of Vincentian speech performance.” He suggests that
in rural St. Vincent, “nonsense talk” is usually associated with speech performance in
public places or at crossroads where...
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Translation and Transculturation in the New York–Hispanic Caribbean Borderlands
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 147–162.
Published: 01 November 2016
... that transpires in Hispanic Caribbean New York. © Small Axe, Inc. 2016 Fernando Ortiz hispanophone Caribbean diaspora contact zone Nuyorican Caliban Miguel Algarín Jesus Abraham “Tato” Laviera Roberto Márquez Lourdes Casal Spanglish Puerto Rican diaspora For Tato Laviera Charles...
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Decolonial Multilingualism in the Caribbean
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 11–21.
Published: 01 March 2020
... of communication, Abraham Acosta writes, “Unintelligibility, incommensurability, noise: these are concepts that do not signal a failure to understand, but a wielding of power over the other that comes with the pronouncement of not needing to understand.” 20 The hierarchical relationship between Haitian Creole...
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Edouard Glissant and the Art of Memory
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (3 (30)): 25–36.
Published: 01 November 2009
..., “The Generation of Postmemory,” Poetics Today 29 (2008): 106 (italics in original). For an illuminating
discussion on the psychological effects of “transgenerational haunting,” see Nicolas Abraham, “Notes on the Phantom,” in
Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok, The Shell and the Kernel: Renewals...
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The Promise of Caribbean Intellectual History
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 47–60.
Published: 01 March 2021
... of the heralded South African writer Peter Abrahams, who made Jamaica his home in 1956, as the occasion for a consideration of how freedom and possibility become in his eyes emblematic of the Caribbean condition. 50 The plantation, transculturation, creolization, tidalectics, opacity, erotic marronage...
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Translation, Political Community, and Black Internationalism: Some Comments on Brent Hayes Edwards's The Practice of Diaspora
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Small Axe (2005) 9 (1): 112–119.
Published: 01 March 2005
... whom never left their home states, deciding to join the Communist
International or the Abraham Lincoln Brigade to fi ght fascism in Spain? How would we
understand black domestics in Cuba, Panama, or Jamaica who were staunch organizers
for Marcus Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement...
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Death and Prefiguration
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 83–88.
Published: 01 March 2024
... and management of a project of material development. The realm of the spiritual is what hails followers—the familiar verse in Matthew that the last will become first and the first, last, offered a promise for repair in the hereafter. Yet given that so much has been written about the ways Abrahamic religions...
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What Times Are These? Visual Art and Social Crisis in Postcolonial Jamaica
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 164–184.
Published: 01 July 2009
... diasporal solidar-
ity, and more individual artistic voices, such as those of John Dunkley and Carl Abrahams. In
all, however, Jamaican art of that period was driven by a shared belief in the social utility of
art and the necessary Jamaicanness of Jamaican art.
The departures became more...
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Michel-Rolph Trouillot: A Comprehensive Bibliography
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 213–222.
Published: 01 November 2013
... of the Americas: Recent Works on Afro-America and the Caribbean.” Review of After Africa , by Roger D. Abrahams and John F. Szwed; Urban Life in Kingston, Jamaica , by Diane J. Austin; Death Row , by Mario Hector; Africa in Latin America , by Manuel Moreno Fraginals; Race, Class, and Political Symbols...
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Birth of a Station: Broadcasting, Governance, and the Waning Colonial State
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 36–52.
Published: 01 July 2014
... in broadcasting in Creole. 74 Peter Abrahams, Jamaica: An Island Mosaic (London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1957), 155. © Small Axe, Inc. 2014 “Let Jamaica get a move on,” wrote Walter Fletcher in a letter to the editor of the Daily Gleaner in December 1929. “We are behind the times...
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Own People: Race, “Altered Solidarities,” and the Limits of Culture in Trinidad
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 18–34.
Published: 01 November 2014
.... 5 But, for details on attempts to form explicitly multiracial opposition parties during this era, see Sara Abraham, Labour and the Multiracial Project in the Caribbean: Its History and Its Promise (Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2007), 88–100. 6 See Bridget Brereton, “‘All ah We Is Not One...
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