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Small Axe (2013) 17 (1 (40)): 40–49.
Published: 01 March 2013
...Farah Jasmine Griffin This essay explores the extent to which the concept of “a black radical tradition” illuminates or limits understandings of the art and activism of dancer, choreographer, and activist Pearl Primus. Focusing on Primus's emergence as a public figure and artist during the 1940s...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (2 (32)): 83–96.
Published: 01 July 2010
... in Paradise Omeros. In The Fact of Blackness: Frantz Fanon and Visual
Representation, described by its editor as “an after-effect” of a 1995 conference on Fanon,4
Homi Bhabha contributes the following to an artists’ dialogue:
Fanon is reluctant to collude with a representational art which brings...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 89–98.
Published: 01 March 2017
... Caribbean art Caribbean performance black performance art black women artists Caribbean female body “You don't do it right,” Rosa said. The steups, the distinctive mouth movement and sound found in Trinidad, where her family is from, and throughout the Caribbean. When people suck their teeth...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 65–83.
Published: 01 November 2015
....’” 40 young, art on black , 5. 41 Daphne Brooks, Bodies in Dissent: Spectacular Performances of Race and Freedom, 1850–1910 (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006), 4. 42 Lillian Allen, “One Poem Town,” in Women Do This Every Day , 117 (semibold in original). 43 Ahmed...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (1 (46)): 178–181.
Published: 01 March 2015
... in Cuba (2011) and editor of “Black/Queer/Diaspora,” a special issue of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies . He is currently completing a new book, “Black/Queer Here and There: Ethnography of an Idea.” E wan A tkinson , born in Barbados in 1975, received a BFA from the Atlanta College of Art...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 70–88.
Published: 01 March 2017
... place in which alterity and sameness collide—a place in which other people, places, spaces, and temporalities intersect to furnish a sense of self-recognition. Critical to the discussion here has been the importance of performativity to conversations about racial identity. McGilchrist's art illustrates...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (2 (32)): 97–110.
Published: 01 July 2010
...
Increasingly since that passa passa night I have challenged narratives about Jamaican
art that define the island’s art history as a relatively modern one in which black people have
had little visibility to consider whether we have been searching in the right places. Images of
blackness proliferate...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 123–136.
Published: 01 November 2014
... that Landvreugd's work and the interview that follows can be understood. His is a project of questioning what it means to be black in Europe, or, said differently, whether one can be both black and European. Movement No. 7 , the occasion for this conversation, was the second in a series of three contemporary art...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (2 (47)): 197–200.
Published: 01 July 2015
... L eon W ainwright is Kindler Chair in Global Contemporary Art at Colgate University, and Reader in Art History at the Open University, UK. He is the author of Timed Out: Art and the Transnational Caribbean (2011) and the forthcoming book “Phenomenal Difference: A Philosophy of Black British...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 16–34.
Published: 01 November 2013
... general questions about Caribbean femininity and its social meanings. In 1996 booops left her nurturing home environment to study fine art at Barbados Community College. She earned a degree in painting at the Edna Manley College of Visual and Performing Arts in Jamaica in 1998 and an MA in painting...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (1 (37)): 119–143.
Published: 01 March 2012
...: Vodou, Power, and Performance in Haiti and Its Diaspora (Berkeley: University of California
Press, 2002), 102.
41 Ibid., 103.
42 Karen McCarthy-Brown, Tracing the Spirit: Ethnographic Essays on Haitian Art from the Collection of the Davenport
Museum of Art (Seattle...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 150–168.
Published: 01 March 2019
... in the period. Since more than forty years have passed since the 1970s, my approach cannot be said to be an accurate recital of facts. Rather, I attempt to make theoretical and interpretive sense of ideas about cultural decolonization and arts practice in the period. My argument is simple: embodied performances...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 194–196.
Published: 01 March 2016
...” that considers the “afterlives” of black radical politics and the nascent worlds that emerge from the expectation and nonarrival of black freedom and anticolonial revolution. He is the coordinator of the Small Axe Project. C eleste F raser D elgado is professor of English and humanities at Barry...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 148–163.
Published: 01 July 2009
..., and the final three-screen video is visually luxurious in mining
the relationships, parallels, and contrasts between the different performers and between the
performers and the setting.
8 David Ryan,“Sonia Boyce,” Art Monthly, no. 307 (June 2007): 40.
9 Paul Gilroy, The Black...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (2 (35)): 209–212.
Published: 01 July 2011
...), and honorable mention in the 2009 Regi-
nald Shepherd Memorial Poetry Prize and the 2003 Gival Press Tri-Language Poetry Contest.
She has been published in the journals Black Arts Quarterly, Caribbean Writer, Belleview Liter-
ary Review, and Crab Orchard Review, as well as in the anthologies Growing Up Girl...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (2 (38)): 228–230.
Published: 01 July 2012
... Indian Poetry (1998) and Black Yeats: Eric Roach and the Politics of Caribbean Poetry (2008), as well as numerous articles on and reviews of Caribbean poetry and drama. He is currently completing a book on Jamaican performance poetry. E ddie C hambers is a British-born curator and writer of art...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (2 (35)): 96–116.
Published: 01 July 2011
... and activists as well as the movement of
key cultural and political artifacts.
—Paul Gilroy, The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness
If we mediate on an immediate history of installation art (one dating from the 1970s),
we find that its activation of “place,” on both the cerebral...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 232–234.
Published: 01 July 2024
... of The Black Scholar and founder of the sonic art and archival project Echolocution. C arolyn C ooper is the author of Noises in the Blood: Orality, Gender, and the “Vulgar” Body of Jamaican Popular Culture (1993) and Sound Clash: Jamaican Dancehall Culture at Large (2004), and the editor of Global...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 201–204.
Published: 01 July 2023
... and the Caribbean between 1781 and 1820. Their work is published in Representations, Women and Performance , and Transition , and in Caribbean Literature in Transition: 1800–1920 (2021), the first volume of three in the Cambridge series. K edon W illis is assistant professor of English at CUNY–City...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 31–52.
Published: 01 November 2020
... of Dominican artists known for their interest in exploring media such as installation, video-art, and performance and for addressing issues of racial and gender discrimination in the Dominican Republic. 1 In this essay we will discuss Quintapata’s exhibition Mover la roca (2009, 2010, 2011); its...
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