Skip Nav Destination
Close Modal
Search Results for
biography
Update search
Filter
- Title
- Authors
- Author Affiliations
- Full Text
- Abstract
- Keywords
- DOI
- ISBN
- eISBN
- ISSN
- EISSN
- Issue
- Volume
- References
Filter
- Title
- Authors
- Author Affiliations
- Full Text
- Abstract
- Keywords
- DOI
- ISBN
- eISBN
- ISSN
- EISSN
- Issue
- Volume
- References
Filter
- Title
- Authors
- Author Affiliations
- Full Text
- Abstract
- Keywords
- DOI
- ISBN
- eISBN
- ISSN
- EISSN
- Issue
- Volume
- References
Filter
- Title
- Authors
- Author Affiliations
- Full Text
- Abstract
- Keywords
- DOI
- ISBN
- eISBN
- ISSN
- EISSN
- Issue
- Volume
- References
Filter
- Title
- Authors
- Author Affiliations
- Full Text
- Abstract
- Keywords
- DOI
- ISBN
- eISBN
- ISSN
- EISSN
- Issue
- Volume
- References
Filter
- Title
- Authors
- Author Affiliations
- Full Text
- Abstract
- Keywords
- DOI
- ISBN
- eISBN
- ISSN
- EISSN
- Issue
- Volume
- References
NARROW
Format
Subjects
Journal
Article Type
Date
Availability
1-20 of 181 Search Results for
biography
Follow your search
Access your saved searches in your account
Would you like to receive an alert when new items match your search?
1
Sort by
Journal Article
Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 154–161.
Published: 01 March 2023
... extend Joseph-Gabriel’s recuperative method past the 1960s and into the early independence era. No one would call the Senegalese novelist Mariama Bâ overlooked, and yet Bâ herself has often been absent from her own reception history. One understudied archive for Bâ is a biography of the novelist written...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 1–28.
Published: 01 November 2015
... of Delia Jarrett-Macauley's authoritative biography of Marson in 1998, the essay has two primary aims. First, to recover in greater detail and in more holistic terms than has previously been possible the personal story of Marson's professional relationships at the corporation. Second, to pursue what...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 129–139.
Published: 01 November 2018
...James Maraniss The essay deals with the attempt to achieve fidelity in the translation of Antonio Benítez-Rojo’s fiction: to find an English prose rhythm adequate to a rendition of his novel El mar de las lentejas as Sea of Lentils . It includes some biography and criticism, anchored by an intimate...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 89–105.
Published: 01 March 2024
... Jamaica biography anthropology postnationalism If the rainwater don’t fill the well, the night dew won’t help you. —Jamaican saying The story of Jamaican decolonization is routinely told as the story of the great battle between the two political parties, the People’s National Party...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2004) 8 (2): 49–60.
Published: 01 September 2004
... of movements away from and reorientations of dominant forms, minor literatures
have spatiotemporal impact and respond to more than one axial moment.⁷ In the case
of contemporary Jamaica, where artistic movements that defi ne stylistic tendencies are
scarce, an artist’s biography is a potential moment...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2009) 13 (3 (30)): 12–24.
Published: 01 November 2009
... work
on francophone thinkers and thinkers such as Edouard Glissant, who have in turn become
icons of postcolonial studies today.10
In his impressive biography of Fanon, David Macey highlights the implication of the selec-
tive compartmentalization to which Fanon’s life...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2007) 11 (2): 177–183.
Published: 01 June 2007
..., fascination” with Louverture.
(Indeed, not content to have delivered up nearly 2,000 pages of a trilogy that, as it stands,
probably represents the most detailed biographical examination of Louverture, Bell has now
written a nonfiction biography which will likely become...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 197–207.
Published: 01 July 2020
... started as the managers of country banks on the US frontiers. Most eventually drifted to New York City and on to the Caribbean and Latin America and back again, finding employment in the US imperial banks operating throughout the region. (13) Bankers and Empire uses the biographies of these rogue...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2011) 15 (2 (35)): vii–x.
Published: 01 July 2011
... it inspired, no experience of the forms of political mobilization it produced and the
anticipation of sovereignty it engendered.
In a manner of speaking, these interviews are life-stories. They are the life-stories of our‑
selves. They take the overall form of intellectual biographies...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2007) 11 (2): 209–216.
Published: 01 June 2007
... the biography will not have errata like the mistake about the
date of Rochambeau’s departure from Saint-Domingue, embarrassingly reiterated across all
three volumes of the trilogy (though I comfort myself with the thought that if there were any
other such gaffes in the novels, Nzengou...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2008) 12 (1): 133–144.
Published: 01 February 2008
... of their
apparent historical earliness on the island and the relative dearth of image-makers among his
peers. Cazabon’s landscapes were thought to be a secure basis for a peculiarly Trinidadian art,
this despite his composite biography of multiple Atlantic crossings, his Trinidad birth, Afri-
can and European...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 128–142.
Published: 01 November 2020
... Educational Problems”). 54 See MacLeavy, “Amy Beckford Bailey: A Biography”; and Dalea Bean, Jamaican Women and the World Wars: On the Front Lines of Change (Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). 53 See “Current Items,” Daily Gleaner , 7 August 1957; “Function for US Visitor...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2008) 12 (3 (27)): 14–31.
Published: 01 October 2008
...) in the name of a single universal logic. “All the reasons
14. Gérard M. Laurent, Toussaint Louverture à travers sa correspondance (1794–1798) (Madrid: Industrias graficas,
1953), 314. All translations are my own.
15. Madison Smartt Bell, Toussaint Louverture: A Biography (New York...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 28–46.
Published: 01 March 2021
... photography and artwork in contrasting styles. After briefly sketching Nassy’s biography and the conditions of his incarceration, I will discuss two paintings from the Nassy Collection that demonstrate the significance of visual art in the context of black civilian internment—both for the artist-prisoner...
FIGURES
| View All (10)
Journal Article
Small Axe (2007) 11 (2): 194–208.
Published: 01 June 2007
...; and Trouillot, “Bodies and Souls,”
190–1.
15. Bell, “Engaging the Past,” 199–200.
SX23 • June 2007 • Charles Forsdick | 201
the progressive emergence of this version of Toussaint. His biography is presented obliquely,
often through reference...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 104–118.
Published: 01 November 2019
... engages with not only literary criticism but politics, biography, history. An important aspect of our visit was awareness of ethnic diversity in Nigeria. Ethnic rivalries continued in Nigeria after independence in 1960. In 1967, Igbo people in Eastern Nigeria declared themselves as the independent...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 44–52.
Published: 01 March 2020
... attention: Les deux Indiens , an 1857 anticolonial romance of male and indigenous affiliation, and “A Cuba libre,” an 1871 biography of the first president of the Haitian Republic, Alexandre Pétion. 5 In exploring these works, I will ultimately tackle the following question: In what ways, if any, can...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2012) 16 (1 (37)): 168–177.
Published: 01 March 2012
... family in Trinidad.8 Williams himself, despite
7 Williams, Capitalism and Slavery, 211.
8 Hume’s brother-in-law was William Hardin Burnley, a major recipient of slave compensation. The Oxford Dictionary of
National Biography (ODNB) entry recognizes the connection: V. E. Chancellor, “Hume...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): 45–62.
Published: 01 June 2008
... or written interviews, personal statements, biography,
autobiography, historiography, or journalism has helped form (and inform) a collective
memory. Subsequent generations of people who incorporate these representations of black
memory as their experiences introduces...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2008) 12 (1): 145–156.
Published: 01 February 2008
... way of doing art history was often organized around the artist, his genius, his materials,
his biography, and the context in which he worked (I use “he” because this kind of art history
tended to be quite gendered in its assumptions about genius). Art historians would focus their
scholarly...
1