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Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): 63–79.
Published: 01 June 2008
...Patricia Saunders Small Axe Incorporated 2008 Defending the Dead, Confronting
the Archive: A Conversation with
M. NourbeSe Philip
Patricia Saunders
Law and poetry both share an inexorable concern with language—the “right” use of the “right” words,
phrases or even marks...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 110–125.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Marta Fernández Campa This essay highlights the role of archives, archival research, and integration of archival records in contemporary Caribbean visual artwork that evokes and reimagines unevenly recorded historical processes/moments. It also suggests the defining role of this approach...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (1 (31)): 46–59.
Published: 01 March 2010
...Kanika Batra This article examines a privately published newsletter, The Jamaica Gaily News , in circulation from 1978 to 1984, as an archive of gay and lesbian community building initiated by the Gay Freedom Movement (GFM). Contending that recent efforts of organizations like the Jamaica Forum...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 39–54.
Published: 01 March 2018
...Chris Moffat This essay examines the relationship between a radical politics and the institution of the archive through a history of the George Padmore Institute (GPI), a community archive attached to New Beacon Books in London. Focusing on the life and thought of John La Rose (1927–2006...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 104–118.
Published: 01 November 2019
..., Vic Reid, and Garth St. Omer. 18 Clara Thomas was a professor of English at York University. She is remembered as one of the first academics to focus on the study of Canadian literature and more specifically on Canadian women writers. The Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections at York...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 116–131.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Monique A. Bedasse; Aaron Kamugisha This essay argues for an approach to postcolonial Caribbean intellectual history that moves beyond the national archive to rely on a globally dispersed archive. It uses Rastafari repatriation to Tanzania to highlight the intellectual history of the movement...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 65–83.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Phanuel Antwi Rereading dub poetry under the pressures of and with the resources of black feminist and queer theory, and treating the practice of dub poetry as a production of a sound archive, one that embodies and aurally animates the intimacies of the black Atlantic, this essay highlights...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 27–42.
Published: 01 July 2013
...Deborah A. Thomas This essay discusses the process of field formation within Caribbean studies in relation to the building of archives, challenging Eurocentric conceptualizations of history and history making as well as counterdominant tropes about the region and the people who have inhabited...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (1): 145–156.
Published: 01 February 2008
... historicity to the black population, ever unproblematically yield `black history'? Can black histories ever be built on fragile postcard infrastructures?” Small Axe Incorporated 2008 Caribbean Subjectivity
and the Colonial Archive
Beth Fowkes Tobin
Ab s t r a c t : This essay takes up...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 1–13.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Grace L. Sanders Johnson This essay tells the story of Estrea Jean Gilles, a nineteen-year-old girl who was killed by Marines during the US occupation of Haiti (1915–34). With the crash described as an “unavoidable” accident and the documents cataloged under “miscellaneous,” Estrea’s archived life...
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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 (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 53–66.
Published: 01 July 2020
... and are now held in France. Examining the history of this archive that stands as a metaphor for Swedish colonial amnesia, this essay discusses the reluctance in Sweden to recognize a past that goes against a self-image untainted by slavery and colonialism. The essay also discusses a project that aims to open...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 111–119.
Published: 01 March 2020
...Nancy Raquel Mirabal The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is the premier center of African American and Afro-diasporic studies. Yet, as the literary scholar Vanessa Valdés argues, we know little of the center’s namesake and his drive to collect and establish a renowned archive...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 179–188.
Published: 01 November 2016
... identity formations through a transnational frame. 4 Furthermore, Masculinity after Trujillo illustrates the value of literary critique for the study of hegemonic and oppositional archives. I will follow Horn's invitation to move away from the dictator's body by moving away from the masculine...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 144–160.
Published: 01 July 2018
... the Caribbean Picturesque (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007); Mimi Sheller, Citizenship from Below: Erotic Agency and Caribbean Freedom (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012); Smith, American Archives; and Wexler, Tender Violence. 25 Smith, American Archives , 13–14. 24 For more...
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Published: 01 November 2019
Figures 9 and 10. Archival Dialectics (detail), 2018. Two-sided black-and-white photocopies—one side with image of wax rubbings of coral stones; one side with archival text on inverse of rubbings image—displayed in two stacks. Courtesy of the artist.
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Figures 9 and 10. Archival Dialectics (detail), 2018. Two-sided black-and-white photocopies—one side with image of wax rubbings of coral stones; one side with archival text on inverse of rubbings image—displayed in two stacks. Courtesy of the artist.
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in Through Archie Lindo’s Lens: Uncovering the Queer Subtext in Nationalist Jamaican Art
> Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 November 2020
Figure 3 O’Neil Lawrence, Awakening , 2007. Archival ink on rag paper, 17 × 26 in. Courtesy of the artist
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Figure 10. Keisha Scarville, Untitled #7 , from Mama's Clothes series, 2016. Archival inkjet print, 24 × 36 in. Location: Buxton, Guyana. Courtesy of the artist © Keisha Scarville
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Figure 11. Keisha Scarville, Untitled #3 , from Mama's Clothes series, 2015. Archival inkjet print, 24 × 36 in. Location: Brooklyn, New York. Courtesy of the artist © Keisha Scarville
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